Foodscapes 3: Urban Agricultural Plan for the Fayetteville Public Library

PrizeOfficial Selection in Build (architecture)
CompanyUniversity of Arkansas Community Design Center
ArtistStephen Luoni
CategoryProfessional
Design TeamVictor Hugo Cardozo Hernandez, Shail Patel, Kayla Ho, and Lauren Lamker
ClientFayetteville Public Library
CreditUniversity of Arkansas Community Design Center

Foodscapes maximizes the site’s available footprint by embedding a full-service food hub below grade enabling the site’s entire surface to support rooftop permaculture growing. The rooftop gardens extend the usable surface of the library grounds while accommodating another level of value-add processes including waste recovery in the hillside. This megastructural approach integrates food growing, processing, the greenhouse, and sustainable building systems including composting and heat exchanges between soil and air, in a mobius strip development of the site.

Bio
The University of Arkansas Community Design Center is an outreach center of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, and one of a few university-based teaching offices in the United States dedicated to delivering urban design work. Originated in 1995, the center advances creative development in Arkansas through design, research, and education solutions. Nationally recognized in public-interest design, the center has its own downtown facilities and 5-6 professional design/planning staff, some who also teach.