Chattanooga Design Studio’s multifaceted projects work to improve public spaces on multiple levels within our city. All of our projects strive to improve quality of life for all Chattanoogans through increasing access to and use of our public spaces such as streets, parks, sidewalks, and squares to provide fundamental safety and comfort.
A QUALITY PUBLIC realm
The public realm is made up of all the spaces between buildings within the city. Those places where we spend time together outside of homes, places of work, places of worship and our cars. When we collectively embark upon a quest to find true places for people, this is fertile ground for history, culture and the arts. We like to hold a reminder that public realm can and should be a direct reflection of our city’s collective culture.
A unifying vision for montague park
The Chattanooga Design Studio, in collaboration with the City of Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors Department and the Reed-Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture Firm have led a design process to better understand how the park’s current and future uses can be better integrated within and with the surrounding neighborhoods and greater community.
Reimagining Broad Street
The Chattanooga Design Studio, in collaboration with the City of Chattanooga Public Works Department, the RiverCity Company, and Dover, Kohl & Partners have led an urban design process to imagine public realm improvements, multi-modal transportation enhancements, green infrastructure opportunities, parking, economic development opportunities, all while supporting existing businesses and urban residents.
Evolving the riverfront parks
The Chattanooga Design Studio, in collaboration with the City of Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors Department, the RiverCity Company about, and a team led by Agency Landscape + Planning, and Groundswell Design Group have begun a design process to build upon the dramatic 21st Century Waterfront, evolve the Riverfront Parks and enhance experiences for residents and visitors to enjoy beautiful, comfortable and exciting park spaces.
A QUALITY PUBLIC LIFE
THE PORCH:
PILOT EVALUATION
This report catalogs the post-occupancy findings with qualitative and quantitative data of The Porch public space, a downtown Chattanooga pilot project.
PUBLIC LIFE:
NEIGHBORHOOD EDITION
A summer internship study of Glass Farm neighborhood and Rossville BLVD. The study considers short term urban design interventions to inform long term change.
pilot: THE PORCH
Patten Towers is downtown’s densest population and also its most sociable. This pilot project aims to create an inclusive public space for the community to relax, rest, and socialize.
PUBLIC REALM
ACTION PLAN
With a people-first approach, the plan identifies pilot projects and strategic investments to make our downtown and Innovation District more inviting for all.
pilot: bus stops
Bus stops are some of the city’s most active public spaces yet the current design is harsh and individualized. This pilot re-imagines the bus stop into an engaging, multi-functional space.
vibrant NEIGHBORHOODs
Westside EVOLVES
A collaborative process with Chattanooga Housing Authority, the City & the Westside community to create a vision for the long term future of the neighborhood.
my chatt house
This project is an effort to document and celebrate the character of Chattanooga's urban neighborhoods, thereby laying the groundwork to protect their future.
south broad district
The South Broad District Study was initiated to bring the public together to envision a new future for an underutilized portion of our downtown.
CITYSCAPES
CITYSCAPES I
The basis for intervention is understanding through analysis; we mobilized our design team to survey existing conditions in the city and published a report with the findings.
Cityscapes ii
Cityscapes II investigates our city's corridors as the connective structure of the City, serving as both key social linkages and distinct places for people.
Cityscapes III
This study analyzes the histories, identities, and strengths of our downtown and adjacent urban neighborhoods to better understand their connectivity and unique qualities.
UNIVERSITY COLLABORATIONS
The Studio is built on a rich legacy of student work, and we honor this history by partnering with universities in the surrounding region. These semester-long engagements bring bright ideas to challenging sites, sparking new ways to support our vibrantly growing city.
DIXIE YARNS
University of Tennessee | 2022 | College of Architecture and Design
JAMES A. HENRY
University of Tennessee | 2021 | College of Architecture and Design
Orchard Knob
University of Tennessee | 2020 | College of Architecture and Design
URBAN TRANSECTS
University of Tennessee | 2018 | College of Architecture and Design
Innovation District Housing
Auburn University | 2018 | School of Architecture
THE BESSIE HALL
University of Tennessee | 2019 | College of Architecture and Design