The Center for Farm and Food System Entrepreneurship is both an immersive program in the rhythms of farm life and a public facility for hosting gatherings that celebrate value-added food products.
Imagine downtown Pine Bluff, the regional neighborhood of choice for mixed-income households seeking the option of an urban lifestyle where they can walk or bike safely to work, school, church, shops, and lakeside recreation . . . and it’s affordable!
The new Saracen Wharf integrates existing pavilions and fishing piers into interconnected loops that eliminate the conventional dead-end experience of piers.
New Beginnings is a transitional housing community for homeless singles making insufficient wages and lacking access to affordable housing.
The goal of this study is to envision a Livability Improvement Plan for Willow Heights that triangulates economic feasibility with enhanced placemaking and building renovations to create a blended-income neighborhood.
The Original City deploys missing middle housing multifamily typologies like stacked duplexes, fourplex buildings, and accessory units over garages to achieve affordability.
The RV Park is a value-added land use supportive of the cultural development aggregating along the city’s waterfront.
The Freeman Performing Arts Center marks the threshold between prairie and civic life in this small town of 1,300 with a rich music tradition.
The Plan is conceived as a series of eight urban rooms and landmark spaces that distinguish the Malvern Avenue Corridor and District.
This proposal revives the forgotten 1966 vision for a public water garden by mid-century architect Edward Durell Stone, a native Arkansan. The symmetry of dam (hard infrastructure) and water garden (soft infrastructure) offers a new environmental model for park design.
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Third Place Ecologies reworks components of the familiar single-family home to promote new levels of connectivity in neighborhoods once resistant to sharing.
The tenant space renovation for an off-campus community design center reclaims the expressiveness and scale of the original masonry building accompanied by contrasting lightweight interventions.
The city and the watershed are distinct systems of flow that generate shape and structure across the landscape to maximize their intrinsic objectives. How can city form fix the watershed?
Through the use of townscaping elements, the design creates a new urban living room for a downtown on the cusp of regeneration.
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The lamination of a slow street with a highway stretches the civic landscapes and pedestrian spaces common to a town square along Mayflower's 4,500-foot length.
This disaster recovery plan responds to the community's desire for small town urbanism, local commerce, and community saferooms after a tornado destroyed much of the town in 2014.
The proposed School Avenue streetscape frames new development between the Walton Arts Center and the Fayetteville Public Library with arts-based civic infrastructure.
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Beyond simple infill development, housing serves as a place-making tool to anchor a nascent downtown arts district for Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The scenario plan envisions the foodshed as an ecological municipal utility, featuring green infrastructure, public growscapes, and urban spaces related to food processing, distribution, and consumption.