UA Design Project Garners National Magazines Award
by March 30, 2012 4:11 pm 73 views
A project by fifth-year students at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and the staff of the University of Arkansas’ Community Design Center has received a design award from Residential Architect magazine.
The Pettaway Pocket Neighborhood project, one of four winners of the magazine’s Grand Award, was among more than 800 submissions. Winning projects are featured in the March-April issue of Residential Architect.
The Downtown Little Rock Community Development Corp. commissioned the Pettaway project for housing on five adjacent parcels.
Stephen Luoni, director of the Community Design Center, said the design team combined the parcels to build nine homes around a shared community space. The homes average 1,200 SF and have two to three bedrooms. They’re priced around $100,000.
Luoni said judges liked the way the urban plan created a community within a neighborhood.