COMMUNITY & GREEN WORKS
John Gaines Park Community Garden Pavilion + Tool Shed
Austin, TX
This community garden designed by Stanley Studio in collaboration with Pharis Designs serves the surrounding neighborhoods at Austin’s Mueller Airport redevelopment. It includes a shade structure and gathering pavilion which incorporates salvaged steel elements from the old airport bus shelters.
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Pecan Springs Bus Shelter
Austin, TX
Publications
CODAworx, Pecan Springs Bus Shelter, 2014
This bus shelter reflects the social and environmental concerns of Pecan Springs Commons, a residential revitalization project. A green roof is supported by a steel armature inspired by organic forms. The project was in collaboration with Green Doors, ACDDC and Cap Metro, complying with ADA and code requirements.
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John Gaines Park Community Garden Pavilion
Pecan Springs Bus Shelter
EM Franklin Green Street
Austin, TX
In response to nearby development, Stanley Studio designed rainwater gardens to control storm water runoff and traffic flow along their neighborhood. The project was a joint effort between the developers and the community.
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Possum Temple
Austin, Tx
Awards
Possum Point Gazebo, Best Lakeside Park Amenity, Austin Chronicle Award, 2008
Publications
Texas Architect, May/June 1994, "Playing Possum on Town Lake"
This new design for a gazebo on an existing foundation facing Austin’s Town Lake serves as a local resting spot and gateway to a segment of community hike and bike trail. Imagery reflects significant historical and natural references to the site of special meaning to the community. Commissioned by the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department, AIPP, it involved collaboration with citizen groups, advisory committees, staff and artists.
(Lars Stanley in collaboration with T. Paul Hernandez)
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Possum Temple
Texas River Camp
Austin, TX
Multiple deep lots were purchased to create a rural outpost for the Texas River School and the Chatauqua Foundation along the Colorado River, several miles east of central Austin. Serving a mission to bring children, some on their first outdoor excursion, into nature, the master plan provides river access to canoers and kayakers, fire circles, picnic tables, camping sites, "tiny house" shower/change stalls, e-loo toilets, and a gathering area under a shade sail suspended between storage containers. Occasional flooding dictates land use from the river's edge to high ground and alternative construction and anchoring techniques for all structures.
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Wallowa Outdoor Stage
Enterprise, OR
This stage design, commissioned by Wallowa Resources, a rural non-profit in north central Oregon, doubles as a multi-purpose community facility and a demonstration structure for the use of small diameter timber, a local resource. It seeks to showcase and celebrate a material that has many potential uses in the region and offers various opportunities for cottage industries. Built in part by volunteer labor, the stage is used frequently and considered a success in the community.
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Texas River Camp
Wallowa Outdoor Stage
Springwood Amenities
Kent, WA
The Pomegranate Center, a Seattle-area nonprofit center dedicated to community, art, and environmental concerns, planned and coordinated this project for a low-income apartment complex. A series of mailbox shelters and pavilions offer the local equivalent of a village well, accommodating social interactions amongst the heavily immigrant and young resident population. These structures were built of small-diameter timber culled from a private overstocked forestland, demonstrating the creative use of a local resource and the opportunity to improve the health of forests and rural communities in the northwest.
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Springwood Amenities
Sustainable Food Center Garden + Pavilion
Austin, TX
This new headquarters for Austin's Sustainable Food Center features a 2.7-acre park-like setting for their food-growing operations stretching along Boggy Creek. An exciting, multivalent outdoor space, the project includes a Community Garden in addition to the SFC demonstration gardens, a composting operation, and a caterpillar-like arched steel pavilion in the central gathering space. The site plan was co-designed with LandInteractive landscape architects.
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Sustainable Food Center Gardens + Pavilion
Triple L Ranch
Marathon, Tx
At a jump-off point to Big Bend country and points west (Marfa, Ft. Davis), this 12-acre project in Marathon seeks to create a shared experience built around a restored historic stucco bungalow, phased lot sales, and a common area incorporating a rich desert permaculture landscape with fire circle, shade structures, and other amenities.
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Triple L Ranch
Sun Shelters
Armenia, Columbia, South America
The inspiration for this series of shaded seating shelters came from the rural landscape surrounding an international meeting center in central Colombia. The shelters, designed and coordinated by Lauren Woodward and completed with the help of local volunteers, are built entirely of guadua, an indigenous structural bamboo, prominently used in vernacular building. They are situated at various locations on the campus to provide shaded amenity and sculptural sense of character
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Sun Shelters
