Landworks Studio » Buzzards Bay Competition

The Buzzards Bay Village Competition presents a unique opportunity to address current thinking in planning using techniques from landscape urbanism, ecology, and architecture as a way of transforming the environment. Given the mission of the brief, our proposal is strategic in its layout of a planning framework around which landscape and architectural episodes may be exploited according to phases and budget potentials. It is important to understand this competition as part of the social and physical ecology of the site—in a kind of historical continuum that acknowledges its past, present, and potential futures. This is the unique opportunity that the scale of planning offers, acknowledging its varied constituencies, its economic investment, and the democratic process. The site offers three significantly different phenomena: the village’s urban center, the water’s edge, and equally importantly a rich and varied ecology in between.

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Architect: Office dA