Urban Design
Cities and people are imperfect. The path of graceful compromise is what generates pride in space. With pride comes the stewardship that revitalizes our spaces in unpredictable yet locally embraced ways. Consequently, there is no universal blueprint to effectively address the challenges of rapid urbanization; it demands experimentation, observation, and nuance. Together, we engage in a process of iteration to leverage various strategies to uplift communities and their surrounding landscapes so the result of one project stages the next set of perfectly imperfect relationships we call urbanism.
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Southwest Civic Core Plan
The collective goal is to create a civic campus that work towards a stronger and resilient future for the community.
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Inner Katy BRT Urban Design
UltraBarrio is developing urban, active, and architectural opportunities for four sites along the METRO Inner Katy Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor.
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Transit Environment Programming Catalog
The Transit Environment Programming Catalog unifies ambitions of sustainability, accessibility, and connectivity - visually and vibrantly across an array of disciplines within Houston METRO.
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South Houston Livable Centers
As the first major visionary plan for the community, this study will promote a healthy lifestyle by providing improved access to parks, retail, and housing.
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TMC Transit Center Redesign
Houston’s Medical Center (TMC) continues to develop at an accelerated rate. METRO’s TMC Transit Center is in need of long and short term visioning for improving the user experience.
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Healthy Pasadena Livable Centers
Healthy Pasadena is an opportunity to build on recent planning efforts by creating an area plan which focuses on health and sustainability with recommendations for catalyst projects.
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Houston Spaceport: Aerial Futures
Conversations like those held at the Aerial Futures Next Frontier Think Tank are vital to ensuring that Houston Spaceport sets a precedent that is innovative, dynamic, and equitable.
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Flights, Flows, and Fields
Flights, Flows, and Fields imagines the possible roles for urban design and landscape architecture in the development of our fast-approaching airscape.
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West Bellfort Park and Ride
The work creates a range of scenarios that promote multi-modal connectivity and provide key amenities to the surrounding community at METRO’s West Bellfort Park and Ride.
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Gulfton Placemaking: Roaming Cart-Ographies
As part of a feasibility study that will determine potentials for new affordable housing alongside renovation of existing multi-family units, UltraBarrio has been hard at work on a project that celebrates Gulfton’s dense urban patchwork.
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Shareway Miami
The Shareway envisions a mobility hub that produces hybrid roadway and market systems, cross-pollinating transportation infrastructure and small business development infrastructure.
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Shuffle City
Shuffle City is an alternative framework for future growing cities in America, a tactic for spatial and program diversity, to support the very principles that exchange limited patterns of ownership, land use, and transit space for a fluid coupling of mobility, urbanism and ecology.
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Cycle District - Erie Blvd.
Cycle District Erie transforms Erie Boulevard in Syracuse from a car-centric commercial thoroughfare to a multi-modal connector for bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit.
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Parking Futures
Parking Futures imagines fluid and innovative evolutions for the urban parking garage typology. The work provides a way forward for parking garage construction.