Design and Planning Assistance Center - Projects
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Carlsbad Downtown Revitalization
Anne Godfrey and Jose Zelaya
It was a great opportunity for the students and faculty of the Design Planning and Assistance Center (DPAC) of the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning to work with the Carlsbad community. We enjoyed hearing your stories and gaining inspiration from your visions for the downtown. Our revitalization efforts for the downtown reflect your desires to connect the river to the downtown, make a pedestrian friendly commercial district and capitalize on the cultural assets of Carlsbad all in hopes of reinvigorating street life in downtown Carlsbad.
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DPAC 2013: Dixon Learning Center
William S. Perkins, Chris Wilson, and Mark Childs
The University of New Mexico's Design and Planning Assistance Center (DPAC) was engaged to investigate the site of the Embudo Valley Library and explore alternative designs for its development. In an eight-week planning and design effort the architecture and landscape architecture student teams embraced the challenge and devised five distinct possible visions for the site and its buildings.
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Envisioning Downtown: Ideas for Revitalization in Los Alamos, New Mexico
Mark Childs and Andy Pressman
This plan is based on work performed by the Fall 2005 DPAC group - a collaboration of Architecture and Planning graduate students and faculty, led by Mark Childs and Andy Pressman, architecture. (DPAC is the Design Planning Assistance Center at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico) Working in conjunction with county and city officials, and residents of Los Alamos, New Mexico, the group created plans to help vitalize the downtown of Los Alamos.
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Envisioning the Future of Belen
Mark Childs and Jose Zelaya
During the fall semester of 2004, a group of graduate Architecture and Community and Regional Planning students worked with the community of Belen to envision the design possibilities for the commuter rail stop and the surrounding neighborhoods. The design options included in this report are separated into the following three districts: the Rail District, the Downtown District, and the Acequia District. This report is targeted to all members of the community including youths, residents, city officials, local business owners, and nonprofit organizations. The purpose of this report is not to offer final design solutions, but to generate discussion within the community. It has been designed to show possible outcomes for Belen.
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Lomas Boulevard/UNM Campus
Paul Lusk and Mark Childs
Concepts for the enhancement of the portion of Lomas Boulevard through and serving the North and Central campuses of the University of New Mexico, adjacent neighborhoods and the City of Albuquerque.
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Los Lunas Transit Center: An Urban Design Proposal
Mark C. Childs and Jose Zelaya
A revitalization plan for Los Lunas, NM emphasizing transit-oriented design.
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MainStreet Art & Cultural Theater Districts - Clovis & Tucumcari Communities
Kelly Gard, Janell Furrow, Cameron Treme, Dale Lusk, Laura Baca, Servando Miranda, Trupti Stellus Pereira, Eliah Guerrero, Daniel Osuna, Kevin Maynard, Justin Depoy, Pete Collins, and Stacey George
During the spring of 2013 Design Planning Assistance Center (DPAC) of the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning worked with New Mexico MainStreet to assist Clovis and Tucumcari MainStreet communities and Arts and Cultural District (ACD) initiatives. The work focused on the three historic theaters in Clovis and two in Tucumcari as part of a larger initiative on New Mexico's historic theaters. The studio proposed renovations, adaptive reuses, and additions to the theaters, and proposed both permanent and temporary facilities to create art and cultural theater districts. While these proposals are specific to each theater and community, many of the ideas and approaches may be applicable to other New Mexico theaters. In particular creating the infrastructure and landmarks for street events in conjunction with a theater or set of theaters may be a technique that towns can adopt to reinvigorate the pedestrian life of their main streets.
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Mountain View Design Project
John Barney, Sue Frye, and Michaele Pride
Mountain View is a unique community bound by the Bosque and rich history of industry, agriculture, urban settlement and dispute. The boundary along 2nd Street marks the division within the community and its sense of place. It also marks a challenge to rethink the parameters of economy, ecology and welfare and reconcile the disparities between them. Our assignment was simple. Redesign 2nd Street. But along the way we realized that Mountain View holds much more meaning and purpose. This neighborhood has the potential to face its challenges through innovative, elegant design and serve as an example of a beautiful reconciliation. The master plan and specific site designs presented in this book are just the beginning.
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Portales Downtown Visioning Plan
Jose Zelaya
The Portales Visioning Plan explores urban design ideas to provide alternative solutions to enhance the vitality of the downtown. By capitalizing on Portales' assets, the plan seeds to improve traffic safety, provide a safer pedestrian environment and overall improvements to the image of the city. This in return will attract investment, retain population and consequently improve the quality of life for Portales residents.
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Raton Revamp
Efthimios Maniatis, Judith Wong, Anne Godfrey, Mark Childs, and David Henkel
In conjunction with MainStreet USA, The University of New Mexico Design Planning and Assistance Center (DPAC) focused its collective and individual design efforts on Raton's historic main streets for the spring 2007 semester. Key among the studio's design objectives were attracting visitors off of Interstate 25 and State Highway 64, promoting walkability and vitality within the downtown core, connecting the east and west side of the railroad tracks, and highlighting the recreational opportunities that abound in the area.
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Reviving Mainstreet 2012: Doña Ana + Las Cruces Communitites
Michaele Pride, Susan Frye, John Barney, Mark Childs, Claudia Isaac, and Chris Wilson
This year (2012), the Studio returned to two previous DPAC communities--Doña Ana Village and downtown Las Cruces. Addressing these communities concurrently this time presented the opportunity to consider how they are connected and the context they share. In cooperation with the New Mexico Mainstreet Program and local community organizations, DPAC students held conversations with local stakeholders, studied the communities and their larger context (in person and through secondary sources) to identify assets and challenges, and uncover strategies that build upon the region's history and existing strengths, preserve and restore valuable ecologies, make the most of scarce resources (water), and make places that are safer and more comfortable for residents, business owners, and visitors alike.
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Roswell Visioning Plan
Anne Godfrey and Jose Zelaya
It is our strong belief that economic and community development go hand in hand, and that there cannot be success in one without equal accomplishment in the other. Our project area, as seen on the next page, reflects this belief. It includes not only the entire strip of East Second Street between Main and Atkinson, but Garden Avenue and the residential neighborhoods to the north and south as well. The class was divided into five groups, each responsible for recommending designs for a prescribed geographic area.
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Santa Rosa Visioning Plan
Lisa Reese, Nicholas Reisen, Jose Zelaya, and Chris Wilson
These non-binding design guidelines suggest how new construction in the historic core can best contribute to the distinctive character of that area. Largely developed before the rise of the automobile, the organization of historic buildings here creates compact walkable areas. Around the courthouse, for instance, business blocks built up to the sidewalk's edge define the square and nearby streets as pedestrian-friendly outdoor rooms.
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Socorro Downtown Revitalization
Chris Wilson and Mark Childs
Over a seven-week period, 15 students in DPAC contemplated urban design issues of Socorro in the area of the Plaza and on Manzanares Street to the railroad depot. The students developed design suggestions that sought to celebrate Socorro's civic identity and enhance tourism revenue simultaneously.
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South Carlisle Neighborhood Community Planning Concepts
Joe Brawley, Mark Childs, Paul Lusk, George Radnovich, and Chris Wilson
This document resulted from a collaboration between the City of Albuquerque, Family and Community Services Department, and the Design Planning Assistance Center of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. The purpose of this study was to generate a set of strategies for potential urban improvements in the South Carlisle neighborhood (herein referred to as the Carlisle Village neighborhood). It is intended that the results of this study may initiate discussion on the future of the neighborhood within the community and within public agencies and departments of the City of Albuquerque. The ideas presented here are design concepts and are not intended to be design guidelines.
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Deming Main Street Visioning Plan
Nicole Carnevale, Sarah Wentzel Fisher, James Armand, Dean Cowdrey, Drew Fisher, Laura N. Rovero, Jeremy Sanchez, Antonio Vigil, Cathleen Adams, Ning Cui, Nan Erickson, Anthony Fettes, Maggie Ryan, and Elaine Stevens
DPAC collaborates with New Mexico Main Street, a nonprofit organization administered through New Mexico Economic Development Program, and a local Main Street organization. The partnership assists communities with planning and design for downtown revitalization. In the spring of 2009, DPAC had the pleasure of working with the Deming Main Street organization. The following design interventions envision ways in which Deming Main Street program can utilize its existing assets--its historic building stock, diverse communities, location, and climate--to develop a vital downtown for locals and visitors. They are the outcome of twelve weeks of work by a team of twenty planning, architecture, and landscape architecture graduate students and faculty from the University of New Mexico.
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Hidalgo Medical Services - Silver City, New Mexico
Ramiro Guardiola, Michael Mounce, and Ubaldo Munoz
Visual plan for Hidalgo Medical Services facility in Silver City, New Mexico
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Lovington DPAC Master Plan
Petra Morris, Julia Oliver, Dominique Hinds Dupont, Jessica Dunn, Kristina Guist, Ron Guistinella, Yekaterina Yushmanova, Jessica Medrano, Chance Munns, Matthew Bollinger, Cesar Cruz, Robert Frankis, Cristel Haught, and Sam George
DPAC partners with New Mexico Main Street, a national nonprofit community organization that is administered in the State of New Mexico through the New Mexico Economic Development Department. Main Street's goal is to revitalize downtown centers. This revitalization comes in terms of physical infrastructure and aesthetic improvements, as well as economic stimulation. Thirteen students from the 2009 DPAC Studio were given the opportunity to work with the community of Lovington, NM.
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Design Principles for Downtown Revitalization: Las Cruces, New Mexico
Design Planning Assistance Center
The buildings of and around downtown Las Cruces reflect the unique blend of cultures and activities found within the city. Or at least it did. Today, many of the Art-Deco theaters, the historic brick structures and pueblo-style buildings sit vacant. Drab facades and limited businesses fronting the Main Street Mall now characterize the landscape, creating a challenge for Las Cruces city officials and downtown property owners. To rejuvenate the current lackluster and uninviting state of Main Street in Las Cruces, the New Mexico Main Street Program contracted with the Design, Planning and Assistance Center (DPAC), based at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico, to assist in the development of design principles for the Las Cruces Main Street program. The scope of DPAC's work included devising design principles specifically for building facades of current commercial spaces and potential residential developments on Main Street.
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Roosevelt County Courthouse Square Improvements
Jeremy Scott Alford
The goal of this process was to provide as much knowledge and insight as possible to the city of Portales with the intention that they would use this knowledge and this booklet as a tool to write an RFP that would get them the type of end product they want. While shifting from design issues to RFP issues it quickly became apparent that the RFP written for this project would need to be written better than what the current standard of RFP is in the state. This led me on a search for an RFP suited for this project. I found many advanced RFP around the country in cities that are getting very high levels of work done. A key component of these cities however, was a defined official policy on how their city is looking at projects covered by an RFP in addition to how the city does business as a whole. Therefore this booklet is indeed an attempt to shed light on the important issues that surround the Roosevelt county courthouse and in turn the city of Portales. In addition to this booklet, an RFP will be included that will give its users a clear understanding and direction from which to move forward. Lastly I have assembled a policy agenda that will support the issues set out in this report.
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Bernalillo Housing Project - Fall 2002
Brian Hearn, Fred Robinson, Keegan Mackenzie-Chavez, Mark Harvold, Claudia Castro, Jimmy Hendrix, Shelley Maynard, Alisa Pavlakovich, James Lucero, Justin Ogle, and Matthew Poncelow
With the objective of MainStreet and Bernalillo in mind we, the Design Planning Assistance Center (DPAC) of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico, were assigned to look at three specific locations in Bernalillo that will be directly affected by new development and the growth of this community. Our initial response was to provide housing for this community and also to respond to the commercial guidelines for MaineStreet, as we saw fit for each particular site. Bernalillo remains a destination of both the resident from Albuquerque that wants to live in a rural environment, yet work in the city and the next generation of families that want to remain in Bernalillo. With these two very different types of needs for housing the DPAC Studio has tried to address one or the other if not both. Our design intents are to encourage Bernalillo with ideas and concepts that could be implemented into the community in future growth and development While these could provide for economic growth they could also sustain the existing population by providing a solution for the present housing shortage in Bernalillo.
