Landscape Architecture and Sustainability 

The design team was presented with the challenge of creating a district as dynamic and multifunctional as the client’s vision on an expansive site. After analyzing the ecological assets and land use adjacencies, the design team chose a variety of open space typologies and urban forms to make a transition from the rural land to the campus landscape to the east of the site. The plan is broken into six neighborhoods to cater to a diverse group of users, and to create a stronger sense of placemaking throughout the district. The street network and open space network knits the neighborhoods together through a consistent landscape vernacular. Designers used soil types, tree health, and watershed analysis to place development in the least ecologically valuable land. Solar potential was continuously studied throughout the design process to ensure the viability of renewable energy. Land conservation for recreation, provisioning, and agricultural research became major drivers for density.