Tag: University of Arkansas Community Design Center

Adult Family Home Prototype, mass timber housing solutions for a low-carbon future

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

The Adult Family Home (AFH) is a new congregate housing prototype for non-related adults needing non-medical assistance with the activities of daily living.

# 2024 # Finalist # Protitype (44) # Social Housing (15)

Foodscapes proposes an urban agricultural plan for the Fayetteville Public Library

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

Foodscapes introduces gardens featuring vernacular growing technologies and value-add processing facilities on the Fayetteville Public Library hillside campus.

# 2024 # Finalist # Cultural center (485) # Education (463) # Library (151) # Public space (491)

Visibilizing African American Heritage in Fayetteville, an exhibition supporting future reparative municipal policies addressing underserved Black community needs

University of Arkansas Community Design Center | Northwest Arkansas Black Heritage Association

Cultural mapping visibilizes an African American neighborhood undergoing erasure. Visualizations chronicle race-based spatial segregation and Black placemaking.

# 2024 # Finalist # Exhibition (440)

Rural Pocket Neighborhood: a holistic energy systems approach using wood

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

A pocket neighborhood triangulates prefabricated wood construction technology, social space planning, and Passive House, in an affordable housing solution.

# 2024 # Finalist # Community residential (150) # Protitype (44) # Green (145)

GrowLofts: a prototype development for developers wanting to combine housing with a greenhouse

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

GrowLofts is a prototype development for developers wanting to combine housing with a greenhouse.

# 2024 # Winners # Residential Building - Complex (591) # Protitype (44) # Green (145)

Foodscapes, Urban agricultural plan for the Fayetteville Public Library

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

Foodscapes introduces gardens featuring vernacular growing technologies and value-add processing facilities on the Fayetteville Public Library hillside campus.

# 2024 # Finalist # Education (463) # Productive complex (198) # Library (151) # Public space (491)

Framework Plan for a Riverine Commons and Institute, a river education center and offices

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

The Plan operates at the intersection of anthropology, ecology, and design in developing a lasting and robust riverine knowledge fund across space and time.

# 2023 # Mentioned # Cultural center (485) # Public space (491) # Exhibition (440)

#Culture

Greenway Urbanism: Supporting Hospitality, Leisure, and Sports

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

Greenway Urbanism structures new leisure & sports landscapes around pedestrian, bicycle, and equestrian experience economies in a planned residential community.

# 2023 # Finalist # Community residential (150) # Leisure (234) # Public space (491) # Landscape (161) # Green (145)

#Sport&Leisure

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Framework Plan for Cherokee Village to amplify its nature, ecosystems, sense of place and heritage

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

The Plan is based on acupunctural urbanism: the discrete insertion of five urban pattern languages to revitalize this sprawling community.

# 2023 # Finalist # Commercial - Retail (485) # Community residential (150) # Masterplan (179) # Public space (491) # Hospitality (140)

#Urban Planning

Framework Plan for a Riverine Commons and Institute celebrates the heritage and riparian cultures

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

The Plan operates at the intersection of anthropology, ecology, and design in developing a lasting and robust riverine knowledge fund across space and time.

# 2023 # Mentioned # Cultural center (485) # Masterplan (179) # Public space (491) # Landscape (161) # Education facility (79)

#Landscape

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The Shed, a social center for the Little Rock Air Force Base

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

Mixed-use complex showcasing mass timber building technology while exploring community planning approaches that facilitate greater sociability on military bases

# 2022 # Finalist # Multifunctional Building - Complex (756)

#Mixed Use

Cultural Mappings of Cherokee Village, Arkansas, encourages radical discourse among local stakeholders

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

Cultural mappings research supports a separate master plan commissioned by Cherokee Village, a 23-square-mile rural planned community developed in 1955.

# 2022 # Winners # Exhibition (440)

#Special Projects

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