This project seeks to transform a 'hard core' parking lot into a thermally optimal 'green core' for Southwest Houston where existing organizations can thrive to support the community for a stronger, equitable, and resilient future.

UltraBarrio is developing urban, active, and architectural opportunities for four sites along the METRO Inner Katy Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor.

The Transit Environment Programming Catalog unifies ambitions of sustainability, accessibility, and connectivity - visually and vibrantly across an array of disciplines within Houston METRO.

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.

A community plan that identifies needs and priorities that will guide public, private, and non-profit investments over the next 10 years.

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.

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.

The Study is focused on enhancing bicycle and pedestrian connectivity, introducing new housing options, and preserving community character.

The collective goal is to build on recent planning efforts and put community members at the center of decision-making processes for building a stronger and resilient future.

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.

Flights, Flows, and Fields imagines the possible roles for urban design and landscape architecture in the development of our fast-approaching airscape.

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.

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.

The Shareway envisions a mobility hub that produces hybrid roadway and market systems, cross-pollinating transportation infrastructure and small business development infrastructure.

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.

Cycle District Erie transforms Erie Boulevard in Syracuse from a car-centric commercial thoroughfare to a multi-modal connector for bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit.

Parking Futures imagines fluid and innovative evolutions for the urban parking garage typology. The work provides a way forward for parking garage construction.

The proposal equips West Palm Beach with strategies for resilience grounded in the cycle of activities that constitute the community’s social infrastructure.

The proposal prototypes design of housing and open space for a self-sustaining financial model that supplements operational costs while generating job opportunities for residents.

On academic appointment, Amna Ansari led an architecture studio, creating a program within Houston’s Third Ward. The studio prompt references City of Houston’s Third Ward Complete Communities action plan, as well as ideas presented under the Designing for Impact Series.