Hear What We Are About
UltraBarrio is an architecture and urban design practice established out of MIT. We bring design intensity to the challenges of our urbanizing environment. Our central goal is to shape cities to be more civic, sustainable, and generationally connected by design.
Selected by MIT Alumni Association - Firm to Feature
Our team’s invaluable experience in architecture, landscape, research, and design education allows us to develop clear, plural, and durable strategies for responsive practice. We find inspiration in cities— their histories, flow, and urge to evolve drive our focus on the civic realm.
You can find UltraBarrio’s published content in ULI Urban Land Magazine ‘Designing for the Driverless Age’ and ‘Imagining the Driverless City’, as well as featured in Fast Company - Co.Exist Futurist Forum. UltraBarrio’s research regarding the urban impact of mobility and technology, ‘Shuffle City’, a future vision for Houston, is among the source materials at NYU Rudin Center for Transportation and has been recognized at the Smart Cities panel at ABX Boston. UltraBarrio’s recent project ‘METRO: Transit Environment Programming Catalog’ won the AIA Houston Urban Design Award for unifying ambitions of sustainability, accessibility, and connectivity toward sites that blend ecology, safety, and equality with place-making.
Services
Our services address a range of complexity from the practical to the visionary—operating at many scales of conceptual design that include architecture, urban strategies, parks, open spaces and master planning.
Urban Design
Architecture Design
Master Planning and Vision Plans
Design Guidelines
Park / Plaza Design
Public and Stakeholder Engagement
Certifications
City of Houston MBE and WBE (Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise)
City of Austin MBE and WBE (Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise)
TxDOT / City of Houston DBE (Disadvantaged Business Enterprise)
Houston METRO SBE (Small Business Enterprise)
State of Texas HUB (Historically Underutilized Business)
Port Houston SBE and M/WBE (Small Business and Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise)