Multi-family housing is derived from the porch; re-scaled as infrastructure where the porch is the generator of urbanism organizing buildings and landscapes.
Rather than simply see the porch as an element superadded to a house, it is more useful to consider its liminality and mutability in grasping the porch’s true transformative agency. A “floating signifier” that absorbs more meaning than it emits, the porch intertwined new combinations of home and economy, not unlike the American urban grid.
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The pocket neighborhood is a new real estate product for middle America substituting shared neighborhood greens for front yards and car parking in garages at the front of the house.
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Foodscapes introduces urban food gardens on the Fayetteville Public Library campus in the downtown core.
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GrowLofts share food, energy, and conviviality at its edges without sacrificing household autonomy.
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The Framework Plan aims to direct growth in population, housing, and tourism that amplify Cherokee Village’s nature, ecosystems, sense of place, and heritage.
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The Framework Plan operates at the intersection of anthropology, ecology, and design in developing a lasting and robust riverine knowledge fund across space and time.
The botanical garden and zipline for Cherokee Village, a rural mid-century planned community in the Ozarks, is the center piece of new hospitality/eco-tourism landscapes under development.
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LRAFB leadership deems the creation of a “third place” imperative for maintaining mission preparedness and morale among military personnel and their families, many who suffer, or run the risk of suffering, from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Cultural mappings describes the interconnectedness of landscapes, histories, and social geographies of the Arkansas Ozarks surrounding one of America’s first planned retirement‐based recreational communities.
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A Rural Timberlands Neighborhood proposed for southwest Arkansas employs resilient design to mitigate social and ecosystem disturbance regimes (housing deficiencies, wildfire, and erosion) structuring its context.
The real estate development value chain is being recast in sectors like fuel retail, fast food, grocery, and warehousing, while new venture-capital interventions are hybridizing housing, hospitality, healthcare, and the senior services markets in value-adding ways. Wood City explores the possible roles of mass timber in this market transformation.
Double-front is an infill housing prototype that begins with a stacked duplex to create a range of missing middle housing configurations for small downtowns like Fayetteville, Arkansas (population: 85,000).
Sudbury’s industrial-era infrastructure—its rails, roads, and historic downtown are the basis for building 21st century low-carbon neighborhoods featuring new urban landscapes.
A former scrap metal yard located four blocks north of Conway’s main commercial street was re-imagined as a new square surrounded by a mixed-use residential district.
The WCRC combines a private office/workshop space for a design-build operation in river restoration with a public watershed education/event seating 100 guests.
The Circle is a mixed-use live-work destination in a small town (Bentonville, Arkansas population: 40,000) undergoing urban succession from low-density metropolitan sprawl to a mature city with density and good town form.
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The Maple Street Retrofit is articulated through a sequence of spaces including a grand urban room at the campus gates anchoring a landscaped cycle track and pedestrian walk.
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The intent of the Baseyards manual is to provide small-scale producers in Hawaii with a matrix of options and information on regulatory and construction guidelines that will allow them to tailor their own Post-Harvest facility.
The day center is an anchor component in a community-wide ecosystem of service providers offering overnight shelter, transitional and permanent housing, and meal service.