Campus Hydroscapes:
Watershed as a Planning Platform for Campus Improvements in the University of Arkansas Athletic Valley
with UACDC, Summer 2005, Northwest Arkansas
Design Team: Stephen Luoni, Aaron Gabriel, Peter Bednar, Jeffrey Huber, John McWilliams, James Meyer

Campus Hydroscapes is a Recombinant model for integrating riparian systems with urban systems. It is a watershed-based land-use proposal that incorporates ecological services into urban environment related to transit, recreation, housing, and campus aesthetics. College Branch is a first order stream in the University of Arkansas "Athletic Valley". Chronically displaying dysfunctions associated with intense urbanization, remediation of two critical reaches of the stream are a demonstration project for campus revitalization based on watershed improvement that provides a statewide educational asset. A multidisciplinary design endeavor, Campus Hydroscapes incorporates Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Urban Planning, and Biological and Ecological Engineering. It offers three scenarios for implementation, or a successive phasing of all three. These water management solutions offer self-correcting ecological services as a low maintenance alternative to expensive, monolithic command-and-control engineering solutions. They reinvigorate the potential of the campus as an integrated environment serving as a model for the city. 2007 AIA National Award
2007 BSA Award