Across Houston’s vast multicultural geography, vulnerable communities disproportionately encounter stressors and unmet needs following natural and man-made disasters.
The Houston Resilience Hub Network Master Plan provides aid to marginalized areas with a series of community-serving facilities that coordinate resources for residents during daily operations, disaster, and recovery periods.
Utilizing a site-inclusive approach in facility network planning central to landscape architecture, the project focuses on providing access to community preparedness training, capacity-building programming and services, and climate-ready buildings and sites. The plan acts as a national model for increasing community resilience in the face of future threats. The resulting Plan features four components of such a network: Spokes, Spots, Super Spots, and Hubs. All play a role during the “steady-state,” “disaster,” and “recovery” period, with greater emphasis on building community cohesion during “steady-state” days for most of the year.
The Landscapes of Wuhai
The Inner Mongolian city of Wuhai is transforming from focusing on coal mining as its main industry to tourism. This very special place has many different, striking landscape types located within just 1666 sq. kilometers: sand dunes, mountains, and wetlands, plus adjacency to the Yellow River. Consequently, the city has decided to boost its tourism. Already pl...
Downtown Jebel Ali Landscape Master Plan, UAE
Downtown Jebel Ali is a new development located 35 kilometers southwest of Dubai, along an 11 km stretch of Sheikh Zayed Road. Representing the first phase of a major mixed-use development on the outskirts of Dubai, the project includes two high-rise office buildings and two high-rise apartment buildings with access to Sheik Zayed Road. Mixed-use buildings and...
Luohu Station
Luohu Land Port and Train Station is a border control area and the busiest place in Shenzhen, China. As such, the city was faced with the challenge of moving as many as 600,000 people per day and determined to build a subway. Under the auspices of the Shenzhen Municipal Planning Bureau, a team of consultants from eight different countries worked together on th...
Lewis Avenue
In a city renowned for fantasy, the design of Las Vegas’ Lewis Avenue celebrates the local desert landscape and affirms the street as part of a real-world working district. It was one of the first projects to be implemented in Mayor Oscar B. Goodman’s 2000 Las Vegas Downtown Centennial Plan, aimed at revitalizing the historic downtown core. The City asked SWA,...