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The Fayetteville Public Library (FPL) is a member of the Fayetteville Food Coalition, which won a planning grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a food hub. Foodscapes proposes an urban agricultural landscape within an existing downtown neighborhood to promote food literacy and food/nutrition security, enriching the FPL’s service as a robust social infrastructure (won 2005 National Library of the Year). The FPL will anchor a local food value chain that includes partnerships among the high school’s food certificate and production center, the downtown farmers market, urban farms, a food recovery center, food pantries, the City’s centralized composting program, the community college’s culinary education center, and the farm science program at the University of Arkansas.
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Foodscapes will help to reduce food and nutrition insecurity in Fayetteville where childhood food insecurity stands at a shocking rate of 28 percent--—the second highest in the nation! Food growing, processing, value-add-production, distribution, waste recovery, and community education, are curated in unique urban formats offering signature visitor experiences that will extend the impacts of Fayetteville’s new Cultural Arts Corridor. Foodscapes maximizes the site’s available footprint by embedding a full-service food hub below grade, while supporting rooftop growing above. Urban planning developed a permaculture growing urban pattern language that integrates food production processes, architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism for this hillside landscape.
Foodscapes features a permaculture pattern language replicating the organic growing patterns and ecosystem structure found in nature. Permaculture is an agricultural infrastructure designed to function like and with nature. Growing will be curated across novel urban micro-environments that promote discovery. They include small-plot organic teaching gardens, a temperate food forest, terraced public orchards for foraging, a four-season greenhouse with a climate battery, and vernacular growing technologies in espaliers and thermal wall gardens using “fruit walls”. A food hub for use by residents in value-added food processing doubles as an event space, a seed bank, and a “third place” for informal gathering.
Rooftop gardens are sloped to connect with indoor value-add production and waste recovery spaces in the food hub below. This megastructural approach integrates food growing, processing, a greenhouse, and sustainable building systems including composting and heat exchange between soil and air, in a mobius strip development of the site. Four planning principles drive the proposal:
The food hub doubles as an event space, a seed bank, and a “third place” (neither home or work) for informal social gatherings. Foodscapes promotes food literacy and security, enriching the Fayetteville Public Library’s service as a cherished social and learning infrastructure.
“As we've seen from earlier iterations, the scenarios presented are innovative and anchored in Ozark native species, ecosystem services, and educational opportunities for our community...one thing fun bit of serendipity is that Steve included a quote from Eric Klineberg (Author of Palaces for the People) in his introduction, which is cool since Klineberg was just at FPL for the Urban Land Institute's meeting!” Melissa Terry, FPL
The University of Arkansas Community Design Center is an outreach center of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, and one of a few university-based teaching offices in the United States dedicated to delivering urban design work. Originated in 1995, the center advances creative development in Arkansas through design, research, and education solutions. Nationally recognized in public-interest design, the center has its own downtown facilities and 5-6 professional design/planning staff, some who also teach. Beyond the focus on urban projects, UACDC has developed eight place-making platforms to shape civic design and public policy at state and municipal levels. These interdisciplinary platforms include 'missing middle housing,' 'agricultural urbanism,' 'transit-oriented development,' 'context-sensitive street design,' 'watershed urbanism,' 'big box urbanism,' 'smart growth,' and 'low impact development,' vocabularies which are locally articulated but hold universal currency.
