In the mid 1990s the WindSong CoHousing Community in Langley near Vancouver, British Columbia was faced with a decision on a prior design that encroached on sensitive wildlife habitat, forcing a decision to either continue with the project or abandon it.  From illustrations I made that convinced the community members to build the first covered street cohousing project in North America, these are illustrations developed to help the WindSong members visually understand the architectural plans, as it was hard for many to understand architectural plans.  Built in 1996, WindSong passed its 21st anniversary in 2017. You can view the completed project here: http://windsong.bc.ca/

The first of its kind in North America, a cohousing community with 32 homes under one roof, saving over 70% of the site for salmon bearing streams, it is called "third generation cohousing" where the common house is large, and homes are smaller than usual and the whole structure is under one roof.

This perspective rendering shows the completed neotraditional style planned unit development in Orting, Washington.  (BCRA work by David Wright)

This plan shows the different land uses in the layout of the Orting neotraditional planned unit project.  It's an interesting project.  During construction, crews were cutting through six foot plus diameter buried and fallen trees in the ground while installing sewers: the development lies on top of a former lahar flow from Mount Rainier.

A typical street edge scene as imagined in this project.

This image was generated out of a need for containing as much water runoff from development while still maximizing residential density that provided a sense of community with shared green space per pod.  Shared vehicular access between pods minimizes hard surfaces while providing equal access to parking, keeping green areas vehicle free.

Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) retained BCRA for a housing study to analyze building and design opportunities for housing new enlistees and officers' families.  This perspective I developed to show how the landscape uses would look. 

At BCRA I was the lead designer and planner for this affordable housing project in south Tacoma, Washington.  One of the first in Pierce County, this development used entirely above ground green infrastructure to capture runoff and use permeable pavement as a model of incorporating sustainable technologies with affordable housing.