Feasibility

There is no stopping us if a project’s specs are feasible

Design ideation can only go so far if the project is not realistic. Similar to our partnership with University of Tennessee Knoxville, we partner with Vanderbilt University engineering students to expand upon big ideas and evaluate their feasibility. 

One project that the students recently worked on was highway capping feasibility. Urban renewal in the mid twentieth century drove highways through neighborhoods and negatively impacted those communities, so many cities have made the decision to put those highways underground allowing acres of public space to be reclaimed. Using case studies in Dallas and Boston, the engineering students evaluated data and presented the ways that plazas, parks, and structures could be built on top of below-grade highway infrastructure in Nashville. With this information, highway capping can be a solution to repairing fissures in the fabric of residential neighborhoods. City planning can now take this on as a project.