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Circle T Ranch Sustainable Community Plan
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CompletionFall - 1993 Key Design Concepts
Recognition10-week CAL Berkeley landscape studio project funded by the Alliance Development Corporation of Fort Worth Texas; MIT and UT Austin studios were also funded |
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Thompson + Pollari | Planners + Architects | 5525 E. Pinchot Ave.
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The “Linear City” proposal generated by Ms. Pollari’s
team in the UC Berkeley landscape studio is structured by a continuous “main
street” along which are located four different neighborhoods. The
neighborhoods are anchored by specific civic institutions including
the Sustainable Ranch Center, the Town Hall, the Elementary School
and the Theatre. Each neighborhood is centered around an intersection
of the Main Street and a Park Boulevard, which provide connection to
the sweeping freeway system and the open space of the ranch site. A
public use is located at the end of each Park Boulevard, relating to
each of the neighborhood nodes. The uses include a pathway to
the Overlook site on the Hill, the Public Park at the Lake, the Recreation
Center and the Experimental Gardening Plots Center. The Community
Plan is anchored conceptually and physically by the Sustainable Research
Center which will consist of a main research building and core research
facility, with research components dedicated to research of “green” technologies
for business, industry, agriculture, transportation and education.