![Urban Aquatic Conservatory, by Morgan Oster](/sites/default/files/styles/az_large/public/studio/urban-aquatic-observatory-hdr.jpg?itok=Qc79R14d)
Urban Aquatic Conservatory, by Morgan Oster.
Students create a wide variety of outstanding and often award-winning work during their time at CAPLA.
Check out a gallery of select student work or scroll down to view more detailed examples of student projects and work from undergraduate and graduate architecture, landscape architecture, sustainable built environments, urban planning and other students:
Narratives and Galleries
![Group of students and faculty posing for a picture.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2024-06/Low%20Income%20Housing%20Challenge-Bank%20of%20America-Winners-April-25-2024%2020240425_161944.jpg?itok=h7yH6b4K)
CAPLA students win National Bank of America Low-Income Housing Challenge
An interdisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture won the national 2024 Bank of America Low-Income Housing Challenge.
![Group of CAPLA students and David Brubaker posing with their Solar Decathlon Design Award.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2024-04/24-Grand-Winner-Banner.jpg?itok=9xMS4v2M)
UArizona CAPLA teams excel in Solar Decathlon, clinches Grand Winner
The University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture continues its streak of success in the Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Competition, with its three teams clinching prestigious awards and recognition, including the 2024 Design Challenge Grand Winner.
![Building design](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2024-01/MORENO_HORIZ2.png?itok=gFSRL8F4)
Third-Year B.Arch Students Excel with Award-Winning Designs for Accessible Spaces in Bisbee
Third-year Bachelor of Architecture students, mentored by Teresa Rosano and faculty, participated in a universal design awards program with AGM Container Controls, Ascension Wheelchair Lifts, and CAPLA. The challenge was to design a performance center in Bisbee, Arizona, fostering inclusivity.
![Museum of All Souls Procession](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2023-08/Merle-Weisshaupt-All-Souls-Procession-Museum8.jpg?itok=_gtd8bmC)
Museum of the All Souls Procession: Merle Weisshaupt '26 B.Arch
The architecture of Tucson's Museum of the All Souls Procession serves as a daily reminder of multicultural strength, bridging past and future. The museum's design embodies the procession, uniting history and modernity with weathered steel and wood, mirroring the cyclical renewal of tradition.
![The Ephemeral Essence of Plant + Place, by Krista Planinac](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2023-06/KristaPlaninac_2023-Arizona-ASLA_Ephemeral-Essence-11.jpg?itok=YMpqNo3z)
UArizona Master of Landscape Architecture Student Wins ASLA Arizona Student Award of Excellence
The Ephemeral Essence of Plant + Place, a habitat garden designed for a community park by Krista Planinac '23 MLA, has been selected for the AzASLA Student Award of Excellence, which recognizes outstanding academic achievement.
![Park and bird habitat](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2023-06/hdr-Studio_SonoranBirdsClimate_Report_I-120.jpg?itok=aFmRoLFg)
Sonoran Birds and Climate Change: UArizona Landscape Architecture Students Work with Community to Design Urban Bird Habitats
In a collaborative effort between students in CAPLA’s Master of Landscape Architecture program and key community organizations, the recent Sonoran Birds + Climate Change studio led by Mackenzie Waller took on the task of reimagining a small neighborhood park in Tucson.
![Casa Verde render](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2023-05/Casa-Verde_Render-1.jpg?itok=oD1nIFqN)
UArizona Architecture Students Make Impact on – and are Impacted by – 2023 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge
Two B.Arch student teams made the finals of this year's Solar Decathlon Design Challenge, while the Casa Verde team took third place in the Attached Housing Division. As much as we tout the students’ success, however, the more significant impact is on the students themselves.
![Bisbee Center for Jazz section by Sal Arellano](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/SA-sectionAA-hdr.jpg?itok=7yXkuLxY)
UArizona Undergraduate Architecture Students Focus on Universal Design for Prize Funded by AGM and Ascension Wheelchair Lifts
For the third year in a row, UArizona architecture students participated in a universal design competition that put their creative and analytical skills to the test on a significantly sloped site. Thanks to AGM Container Controls and Ascension Wheelchair Lifts, the winning students received a total of $7,400 in prizes.
![Luna y Sol Cafe exterior concepts](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/luna-y-sol-1.jpg?itok=rJaqe74J)
Undergraduate Landscape Architecture Students Create Exterior Concepts for New South Tucson Coffee Shop
Under the guidance of landscape architecture lecturers Alexandra Stoicof and Nolan Bade, 19 students in a fall 2022 BLA design studio created concepts for a new coffee shop coming soon to South Tucson: Luna y Sol Cafe.
![Map of China](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/ingram-china-map-hdr.jpg?itok=HSHvvjzy)
CAPLA Student-Faculty Team Uses GIS to Create Digital Atlas and Award-Winning Poster of Historical Buddhist Sites in Hangzhou, China
This spring, MS Urban Planning student Glenn Ingram, recent MLA graduate Mattea Wallace and Associate Professor Philip Stoker, working with UArizona East Asian Studies Professor Jiang Wu, created the “Regional Religious Systems in Hangzhou China” story map using GIS. This fall, Ingram's poster from the project won an award.
![The Temporal Passage, by Jacob Downard](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/the-temporal-passage-hdr.jpg?itok=TjV4Yx-S)
The Temporal Passage: Jacob Downard '22 B.Arch
The architecture of The Temporal Passage responds to the site's volcanic conditions by being conceptually rooted in scale, time and the moving materials of our living earth in an attempt to convey the magnitude of these natural forces. It further explores the spatial and conceptual juxtapositions between the human-operated straight line and the ensured chaos of nature.
![Sonoran Soundscapes](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/sonoran-soundscapes-hdr.jpg?itok=L7wTX56C)
CAPLA Graduate Students Bring Sights and Sounds of the Sonoran Desert to Austin for SXSW
“For thousands of years, the beauty of the Sonoran Desert has invoked wonder among its human inhabitants,” says Hunter Lohse when introducing the Sonoran Soundscape project that he and fellow MLA students Alizabeth Potucek and Christian Galindo created with Assistant Music Professor Yuanyuan (Kay) Le for the UArizona Wonder House at South by Southwest in March.