Tag: University of Arkansas Community Design Center

The “Fuzzy Urbanism” of Markham Square Housing District

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

Former scrap metal yard 4 blocks north of Conway’s main commercial street is reimagined as a neighborhood square surrounded by a mixed-use residential district.

# 2021 # Winners # Residence (1667) # Community residential (151) # Masterplan (181) # Multifunctional Building - Complex (762)

#Housing

Wood City: Timberizing the Standard Real Estate Product Types

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

'Wood City' applies mass timber engineering to the 19 standard real estate products that essentially shape our cities but are ignored by high design culture.

# 2021 # Winners # Protitype (44)

#Special Projects

Double-front: infill housing prototype for small towns

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

An infill housing prototype that begins with a stacked duplex to create a range of missing middle housing configurations for low-density metropolitan areas.

# 2021 # Finalist # Community residential (151)

#Housing

Watershed Conservation Resource Center, two courtyards and a shared service core

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

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.

# 2020 # Education (467)

#Education

Urban Watershed Framework Plan: A Reconciliation Plan For Conway

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

The project pioneers a transferable planning vocabulary for embedding watershed management principles into urban design creating a model urban watershed plan.

# 2020 # Finalist # Public space (493)

#Landscape

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7Hills Day Center Complex, a business-hours refuge for homeless populations

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

The day center complex is a business-hours refuge for homeless populations seeking one-stop services, incorporating best practices in ‘trauma-informed design’.

# 2020 # Mentioned # Healthcare (185)

#Health

The Circle, A Mixed-Use Live-Work Destination In A Small Town

Marlon Blackwell Architects | University of Arkansas Community Design Center

‘The Circle’ is a mixed-use live-work destination in a small town offering next-generation lifestyles through co-living and co-working spaces and modular lofts.

# 2020 # Finalist

#Urban Planning

A new Center for Farm and Food System Entrepreneurship: Fayetteville, Ar

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

The center is both an immersive farmer training program in the rhythms of farm life and a public facility for gatherings featuring value-added food products.

# 2020 # Winners # Education (467)

#Education

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Value-Added Agricultural Product Development Center in Wahiawa

University of Arkansas Community Design Center | Urban Works Architecture

The food innovation makerspace repurposes a warehouse for a new food science design curriculum to incubate and commercialize food products.

# 2020 # Finalist # Productive complex (198)

#Production

New Beginnings Homeless Transition Village: A Permittable Settlement Pattern

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

'New Beginnings' is a homeless transition village based on the insight that transitioning out of homelessness is a stepwise process.

# 2019 # Finalist # Community residential (151)

#Urban Planning

The Wharf at Pine Bluff: Re-Stitching City and Water

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

Now the second fastest shrinking city in the U.S., Pine Bluff is reinvesting in its downtown through development of housing and allied public works projects.

# 2019 # Finalist # Public space (493)

#Urban Planning

Whitmore Community Food Hub Complex: Building Community Around Food

University of Arkansas Community Design Center

The proposal details design for a Food Hub complex to serve O‛ahu farmers and communities while advancing a template for community-based farming.

# 2019 # Finalist # Multifunctional Building - Complex (762)

#Urban Planning

#University of Arkansas Community Design Center