Little Rock Neighborhood Draws Winning Design from Architects

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Little Rock Neighborhood Draws Winning Design from Architects

by George Waldon on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 12:00 am

The Rock Street Pocket Housing Project received professional accolades for its creative vision for a nine-home development on vacant property in downtown Little Rock.

The 1-acre site of the proposed Rock Street Pocket Housing Project lies in the heart of downtown Little Rock’s Pettaway neighborhood. The area is home to the Governor’s Mansion and part of the historic Quapaw Quarter.

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Client: Downtown Little Rock Community Development Corp.

Sponsors: City of Little Rock and National Endowment for the Arts

American Insitute of Architects Judging Comments:

“This is a great integration of inventive architecture and sustainable urbanism into a traditional, low-income fabric. The project does a very interesting and successful job of comingling variations of public and private space.By creating variations in the housing typology, building placement on the site and landscape treatments, the development proposal has appeal to multiple household types, creates private and shared space, and it completes the urban context of the neighborhood.

“It is thorough, achievable, and detailed with a fresh design approach that is also supportive of the context. The individual house designs do a remarkably good job of negotiating fronts to both the street and the communal space.”