PARCS v2: Beaufort Studio (2015)
Pro-Active Recovery Community Systems // Version 2
Project Summary
This design studio organized architecture and landscape architecture students into a laboratory to confront these issues comprehensively and collaboratively. The course relied on a partnership with the Town of Beaufort, North Carolina. By engaging with community and government stakeholders and consulting researchers, students developed problem statements that enable the implementation and future adaptation of multiple-scenario, holistic design propositions.
The semester was split into a research phase and a design phase. During the first phase (6 weeks), LAR and ARC students collaborated with residents, stakeholders, and community leaders in Beaufort to produce a series of analytical videos examining social systems, cultural characteristics, the local economy, the built environment, and natural systems. In the second phase (10 weeks), students worked independently and in teams to define a network of projects throughout the town.
The design schemes are based on a resilient, adaptive framework called P.A.R.C.S. (Pro-Active Recovery Community Structures) and provide innovative solutions for disaster mitigation and post-disaster recovery for residents of the Outer Banks.
Awards
2016 Student General Design Special Recognition (Graphics): Lennoxberry Town Center (Xinbo Du).
North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Instructors of Record: A. Fox and D. Hill.
2016 Student General Design Merit Award: Watertower Park (Keri Welsh). North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Instructors of Record: A. Fox and D. Hill.
2016 Student General Design Merit Award: Harbor Park (Mahta Nazari Khoorasgani). North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Instructors of Record: A. Fox and D. Hill.
2016 Student Analysis & Planning Special Recognition (Graphics): Coastal Green Streets (Hao Lin). North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Instructors of Record: A. Fox and D. Hill.
2016 Student Analysis & Planning Merit Award: Reimagining the Cedar Street Corridor (Shujing Guo). North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Instructors of Record: A. Fox and D. Hill.
2016 Student Communications Merit Award: Beaufort Natural Systems Analysis (Shujing Guo, Hao Lin, Xinbo Du, and Francisco Martin). North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Instructors of Record: A. Fox and D. Hill.
2016 Honorable Mention – Graduate Student Category: Beaufort Public Library (Eli Simaan). American Institute of Architects Triangle Chapter Scholarship. Instructors of Record: A. Fox and D. Hill.
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Location
Beaufort, NC
Project Start Year
2015
Funding Source
AIA / ACSA Decade of Design Award (direct sponsor) / Clinton Global Initiative (prime sponsor)