We Are Urban Design

ARCHITECTURE + URBAN DESIGN + PLANNING

We bring design intensity to the challenges of our urbanizing environment.

We believe architecture can shape cities to be more civic, sustainable, and generationally connected by design.

Southwest Civic Core Community Pavilion

Supported through grants and local agencies - the Civic Core’s Pavilion is moving into Design Development and Construction Documents.

UltraBarrio wins 3 Architect’s Newspaper 2024 Best of Design Awards

For two of our projects focused on transit resilience:

  1. Best of Design Award in Unbuilt UD: Neighborhood Transit Connections

  2. Honorable Mention for Emerging Architects: Modular Transit Stations and

  3. Editor’s Pick in Unbuilt UD: Modular Transit Stations

Drawing Codes Exhibit, Jan - Feb 2025

Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, book published by Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus features UltraBarrio’s drawing.

Drawing Codes Curators’ Talk and Exhibition Opening | Monday, January 27, 6:00pm

Exhibition at University of Houston, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, of all 96 drawings on View January 27-February 21.

Venice Exhibition 2025

UltraBarrio is invited by The European Cultural Centre to exhibit in the Venice 2025 Architecture Biennale TIME SPACE EXISTENCE exhibition from May to November 2025, focused on our work in transforming the public realm. 

APA-Houston Gold Award

The H-GAC South Houston Livable Centers Study received a 2024 Gold Planning Achievement award in Transportation Planning from the Houston Chapter of the American Planning Association.

Finding Home Initiative

UltraBarrio is thrilled to partner with Houston Land Bank on The Finding Home Initiative, a transformative effort to create affordable and resilient housing in Houston’s underserved neighborhoods.

  • URBAN DESIGN

    Our projects provoke design and research around connectivity, land-use, sustainability, equity, access, and the relationship of spaces to interactions. We bring optimism, pragmatism, futurism, and strategy to every project:

    Urban Design Projects

  • ARCHITECTURE

    We know that no place is like any other. We pursue work that allows us to coax out and celebrate the specificities of context. Our dynamic architecture projects range from civic architecture, tactical urbanism, placemaking, and branded interiors:

    Architecture Projects

  • RESILIENCE

    Resilient communities are the foundation of healthy cities. Our impactful projects range from post-disaster alternative housing studies, heat studies, transit resiliency projects to design responses for flood-prone environments:

    Resilience Projects

  • ULTRABARRIO +

    In our design process, placemaking and outreach are indispensable, and we understand the importance of holding a vision that community members believe in. We take care in revitalizing our spaces in unpredictable yet locally embraced ways:

    UltraBarrio Plus Projects