NorthWest Arkansas Community College Landscape Master Plan - Bentonville, AR
Crafton Tull Sparks prepared the landscape master plan for the NorthWest Arkansas Community College. The plan considered goals established as part of the campus master plan, completed in 2005. The plan maintains the formal integrity of a college campus through the design and materials selection, while also creating informal areas with a more “park like” setting, as desired by college staff and board members. One of these informal areas occurs at the primary entrance, where two detention areas have been redesigned as permanent retention ponds with landscape, trees, and sitting areas surrounding them. A second informal area was reinforced in mature tree grove and grassland areas with the creation of an interpretive trail and raised boardwalk. The master plan report also includes a comprehensive materials palette, as well as maintenance and irrigation installation and maintenance guidelines.