Communities + Civic
Urban design is the architecture of social interactions. While ultimately, people make a community, master planning is the creation of opportunities which the inhabitants use to transform a collection of spaces into a true community.
This begins with an understanding of site specificity, moves to systems and materials analyses, and extends to the provision - through design - of sustainable living opportunities for the ultimate inhabitants. Exploring the design of a community as an interconnected series of opportunities formed under the guidance of issues such as alternative transportation and transit access, open space & community gathering areas, food production, density gradients, and relocalization as an economic and cultural stimulant results in neighborhoods with connected people living happier more whole lives.
Just as designing communities involves the people who will live in them, so does designing civic & community buildings. From Cultural Centers to Office buildings, Nature Discoveries to Ecotourism, these structures are about exploring interconnections and social inhabitancy.
“This is what development should be.”