Visioning / Master Planning
We understand the importance of holding a vision that community members believe in. Our expansive work in planning and visioning allows us to work alongside residents and agencies to see the big picture and determine what actions are necessary to get there. Members of our team have led the award-winning Pierce Skypark Vision and the Warehouse District Vision Plan, both of which involved extensive stakeholder engagement and community workshopping. We have also led planning efforts for smaller coastal communities such as Seabrook and Kemah, which prioritized the equitable revitalization of neighborhoods in step with residents’ vision. We have the knowledge and experience necessary to successfully coordinate an effort that cuts across agencies while holding space for all stakeholders to contribute and be heard.
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SW Civic Core Redevelopment Plan
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.
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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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South Houston Livable Centers
As the first major visionary plan for the community, this transportation focused study will promote a healthy lifestyle by looking at sidewalks, trails, streets, and transit connections to provide access to parks, retail, and housing.
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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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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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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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Sargent's Wharf - Affordable Housing
The proposal prototypes a self-sustaining financial model that supplements operational costs while generating job opportunities for residents.
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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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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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Aerial Futures: Houston Spaceport
Partners Amna Ansari and Marcus Martinez participated in a think tank with leaders in the space industry and co-led one of three main panels titled “Space for Culture.”
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Rising Tides - Florida
The proposal equips West Palm Beach with strategies for resilience grounded in the cycle of activities that constitute the community’s social infrastructure.
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Flight, 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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Studio Research: Grocer Institute
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.