About
UltraBarrio engages urban design and architecture projects that address the challenges of our urbanizing environment. Our central goal is to shape cities to be more civic, sustainable, and generationally connected by design.
Through rigorous research, observation, and collaboration with communities and stakeholders, our work radically transforms the civic realm by building capacity for neighborhoods and cities to thrive; generating conditions that are never static, always nimble, and differently magnetic.
Identified as Architect Magazine’s ‘Next Progressives’ Firm, UltraBarrio is noteworthy for design excellence in uniting architecture, urban design, and landscape with placemaking and community visions. As recipients of the prestigious Architect’s Newspaper ‘Best of Design’ Awards, AIA Texas Society of Architects Design Award and AIA Houston Urban Design Awards, our work seeks to coax out and celebrate the specificities of the context that we work within.
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Services
Our services address a range of complexity from the practical to the visionary—operating at many scales of design that include architecture, urban design, urban strategies, parks, open spaces and master planning.
Architecture
Urban Design
Master Planning and Vision Plans
Design Guidelines
Park / Plaza Design
Public and Stakeholder Outreach
Partnerships
We deeply value the strong relationships we build with our clients and collaborators. We work for city agencies, non-profits, and developers; and we work with engineers, economists, planners, landscape architects, designers, fabricators, and artists.
Clients
City of Houston
City of Pasadena
City of Seabrook
City of South Houston
Connect Community
Harris County Precinct 2
Harris County Precinct 4
Houston Downtown Management District
Houston-Galveston Area Council
Houston Land Bank
Kaldis Development Interests
METRO
Southwest Houston Redevelopment Authority
Texas General Land Office
The Nature Conservancy
The University of Texas System
Collaborators
AECOM
Cannon
Decon
Entech
Hagerty Consulting
Halff Associates
Huitt-Zollars
STV, Inc.
TEI Planning + Design
The Goodman Corporation
Walter P Moore
WSP, Inc.