Members of Space Between Design Studio collaborated with Baylor University Medical Center to develop ideas for public realm improvements including streetscape hierarchies and amenities as well as an organizing network of interconnected open spaces or quads for various sub-districts of the medical district.

Space Between Design Studio proposed public improvements to the Bishop Arts District in Dallas, Texas including adding pedestrian refuges at crosswalks with gateway features, re-allocating off-street parking to on-street parking as part of a re-configured 7th Street, converting the off-street parking area into a public plaza, and removable bollards at the intersection for the temporary closing of Bishop Avenue to vehicles for pedestrian-only events.

Space Between Design Studio developed streetscape improvement concepts for Crowdus Street in the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas, Texas.  While there was some discussion of fully closing the street to vehicular traffic, this concept explored whether vehicular traffic and on-street parking could be preserved to some extent but significantly calmed and de-prioritized in favor of pedestrian improvements as shown.

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Space Between Design Studio was asked to re-work the masterplan for the Cypress Waters mixed-use development after an initial phase of residential and retail construction in order to provide a coherent and interconnected street network, phasing plan, mixing of uses in order to maximize development feasibility and value creation.  The masterplanning effort faced challenging needs from a brokerage perspective and market expectation to provide six parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of lease space.  This was accomplished by creating a street and block structure that could be adaptable to allow for urban infill and the re-allocation of surface parking to structured parking to create new developable space.  The initial phases have proven so successful that rents above expectations have allowed for future phases to deliver structured parking.

The images above are shown to demonstrate the numerous concepts developed under changing conditions and market needs over the course of a decade including concepts for certain sub-districts to explore the potential for having neighborhoods designed for minimized car-ownership either through the advance of autonomous technologies, ride sharing, or changing market preference.

Location: Dallas, Texas
The Canyons is a proposed large mixed-use development in Dallas, Texas.  Space Between Design Studio has looked at numerous blocks for prospective developers creating various designs and capacity studies that deliver high quality urban form while taking advantage of the tremendous geographic and topographic features of the site.

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Space Between Design Studio provided an array of analysis and data visualizations to identify potential needs for downtown Dallas as well as potential concepts and improvements to the public realm and multi-modal transportation serving downtown Dallas and the connections to and synergies with surrounding neighborhoods.

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SBDS assisted Catalyst Urban Development Group creating the above masterplan for Lewisville, Texas.

For a private sector client interested in investing in the East End of downtown Dallas in 2016, Space Between Design Studio examined ways to improve the street and block structure, interconnectivity, multi-modal street network, and development potential for the area.  The plan centered on connecting Cesar Chavez Boulevard to Pearl Street creating a new high quality multi-modal urban boulevard creating a spine from Southeast Dallas to Northwest Dallas as Dallas’s version of a ‘Miracle Mile’.

Space Between Design Studio suggested potential inexpensive ‘tactical’ urban improvements to experiment with traffic calming and pedestrian improvements to help Edgefield Avenue evolve as the spine of a walkable urban downtown Elmwood.

Space Between Design Studio was part of a team to take over future management for Fair Park in Dallas, Texas.  A centerpiece of the concept was to break down the seams between neighborhoods and the park, while increasing the amount of green space, decreasing the amount of space dedicated to parking, and allowing the park to ‘reach’ out into the neighborhoods with green spaces extending out into the neighborhoods.