Designing Waller Creek
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Date
2013
Authors
Shearer, Allan
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Office of Sustainability, University of Texas at Austin
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Just how the Waller Creek corridor
on campus might be changed was
the subject of a graduate design
studio offered last fall in the School of
Architecture’s Landscape Architecture
program. Previous studios considered
the downtown portion of the creek and
the results contributed to discussions
that shaped the Conservancy’s design
competition. (And each of the four
finalist teams employed a student who
had taken this studio.) In reimagining
the campus, students were asked to
achieve three broad objectives: engage
the creek, enhance the environment,
and expand access. This paper highlights
some of the students’ best thoughts.