Fourteen University of New Mexico students from the Design Planning Assistance Center in the School of Architecture and Planning have received the New Mexico – American Planning Association’s 2004 Student Project Award for their work on the Santa Rosa Visioning Plan.
Faculty providing leadership for the project include José Zelaya, Alf Simon, Joni Palmer and Chris Wilson. The students are from both architecture and landscape architecture. The studio was supported by the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division as part of the school’s historic preservation and regionalism initiative.
Among ideas the students developed is a redesign of the community’s downtown courthouse square, proposals for a trail system for pedestrians and bicyclists along the Pecos River and El Rito and facility improvements at Blue Hole, a nationally recognized scuba diving center.
The award will be presented in Farmington at the Marriott Courtyard during the chapter’s annual conference dinner on Thursday, Sept. 30.
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920