Aaron Gabriel

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  Published on: 1/31/2008    Last Visited: 2/4/2008  

  Aaron Gabriel, assistant director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, challenged the city to make the name change a more expensive venture by improving what he called the primary gateway to the city.

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  Published on: 1/18/2008    Last Visited: 1/19/2008  

  The nearly nine acres on which the houses will be built were purchased by the city as a drainage way, said Aaron Gabriel, assistant director, University of Arkansas Community Design Center, which has worked on the project since 2005.
  
  He said the land is on a highly impacted, impaired watershed.The site is between the highland of Mount Sequoyah and the lowland of a stream in south Fayetteville.
  
  "So it's very important how we develop on that land and what happens to that water as it is on the land and as it moves off of it," he told the council.
  
  Gabriel estimated that the housing project, which he calls Porchscapes, will have about 50 houses, most, if not all, with porches, patios or terraces.
  
  The houses will face the park, and greenspaces around the homes will connect to it.Gabriel stressed that design issues still need to be resolved and the proj- ect could change.
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  Gabriel said design issues are still being resolved, but Porchscapes is definitely making progress.

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  Published on: 2/11/2007    Last Visited: 8/1/2007  

  Both cities include downtown squares, where people gather for entertainment, shopping and relaxation, said Aaron Gabriel, assistant director of the Community Design Center at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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  There are several types of historic downtowns, but the two most common in the region are the corridor and the square, Gabriel said.
  
  Springdale and Rogers designed their downtowns in corridor style, with a single main street, Gabriel said.The main street concept was used west of the Mississippi River to allow a stagecoach room to turn around.More compacted streets evolved with transportation advances, he said.
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  On the other hand, downtowns with squares are thriving, Gabriel said.
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  Gabriel said both corridor and square downtown designs can work, but cities must recognize what each lends itself to.
  
  "The square is a great urban room," he said.

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  Published on: 1/16/2008    Last Visited: 1/17/2008  

  Aaron Gabriel, assistant director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, challenged the city to make the name change a more expensive venture by improving what he called the primary gateway to the city.
  
  "I think if we're going to name a street after a great man, we should make a great street," he said.
  
  Alderman Lioneld Jordan said it was important to honor King by naming a street after him.
  
  "Dr. King was a man who fought for equality for all people," he said.

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  Published on: 7/2/2007    Last Visited: 7/3/2007  

  The creative team also includes John Arnone (set designer), Devon Painter (costume designer), Marcus Dilliard (lighting designer), Reid Rejsa (sound designer), Jo Holcomb (dramaturg), Lucinda Holshue (voice and speech coach), Marcela Lorca (movement), Peter Moore (fight director), Michele Harms (assistant stage manager), Justin Hossle (assistant stage manager) and Aaron Gabriel (assistant director).

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  Published on: 3/9/2006    Last Visited: 7/4/2007  

  Aaron Gabriel, Assistant Director for the Community Design Center, will share the details of an award-winning partnership between the Benton County Habitat for Humanity and the University of Arkansas Community Design Center that will result in an affordable, environmentally-friendly neighborhood.

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  Published on: 5/22/2006    Last Visited: 10/14/2008  

  Gabriel To Have Design Built in New York
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  The challenge for Aaron Gabriel, a project designer with the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, was to make a model that efficiently fits all this stuff - for less than $5,000.
  
  Gabriel teamed with a college friend to design one of the five winners in the First Step Housing Design Competition.Their design, chosen out of 180 drawings from 13 countries, will be built and tested as a prototype for homeless quarters in a century-old house.
  
  "We started thinking about the things they owned.Because they didn't have a home, their memories are associated with their things," said Gabriel."We wanted to give them a place to put things so they can have structure in their world."
  
  Gabriel estimates his materials' cost at $1,200, well within the $5,000 limit.The rooms should rent for $150 a month, and the construction costs would be paid off in three years.The remaining money will go to help the homeless residents with treatment and plans to better their lives.
  
  The design will be built in the worst of conditions, Gabriel said, in the crowded, cramped Andrews Hotel, a century- old lodging house in New York's Bowery District.Gabriel saw the building during his time in New York, although he never went inside.
  
  "I feel like if it can work there, it can work anywhere," he said.
  
  Common Ground Community, which organized the design contest is a nonprofit housing and community development organization whose mission is to end homelessness through innovative programs that transform people, buildings and communities.
  
  "This is not a place where they stick people, this is not a homeless warehouse - this is a step, this is a step to help move people to better housing," said Gabriel, who moved to Fayetteville in September.
  
  His job combines his two loves: teaching and designing.
  
  Gabriel said the town was the best blend of the South and Midwest, although he still misses New York, which he's revisited three times already.
  
  "I can't bring New York here, that would be silly," he said.
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  Gabriel interacted with homeless people every day while he worked and went to school in Brooklyn and Harlem.The homeless derived much pleasure from having objects in the right order and in the perfect place.
  
  "You have control of your environment because you have everything set in their place," he said.
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  "They may be little cubicles, but we try to give them the same things others have," Gabriel said.
  
  Gabriel spent three years in the master's program at Columbia University, where he racked up $120,000 in tuition and fees.He said the experiences and opportunities make the $750-a-month loan payments for the next 18 years worth it.
  
  He moved to New York after receiving his bachelor's degree at the University of Florida.

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  Published on: 4/19/2006    Last Visited: 4/19/2006  

  Pipes for stormwater will be replaced with "bioswales," or stormwater gardens lined with gravel and deep-rooted vegetation that filter water themselves, said Aaron Gabriel, the project director from UA's Community Design Center.

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  Published on: 10/2/2005    Last Visited: 10/2/2005  

  And though each center is more likely to snag a city-park concept than a museum design commission, "We think our work is every bit as important as Frank Gehry's," says Aaron Gabriel, project director for the UA Community Design Center."It's kind of a heroic tradition versus an everyday tradition.

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  Published on: 2/8/2006    Last Visited: 2/8/2006  

  The 17-lot project will use a design that minimizes concrete to produce less stormwater runoff, said Aaron Gabriel, the project director with the University of Arkansas Community Design Center who helped plan the project.
  
  "It's not a subdivision," Gabriel said of the $ 2 million project on Old Wire Road south of East Sandlewood Drive.
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  "Cars are discouraged from moving quickly," Gabriel said of the narrow street width.

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