Fort Sill Urban Framework

This study provides a framework for stewarding Fort Sill’s network of landscapes as critical urban infrastructure, delivering key environmental services including climate control (buffering the built environment against temperature extremes), stormwater management, promotion of human wellness and ecosystem health. While the bulk of Fort Sill’s land area consists of wilderness ranges that are minimally managed for army training exercises, nine-thousand acres at the core of the installation have been developed with barracks, residences, offices, warehouses and support facilities for a resident community of roughly fifty thousand military and civilian personnel. The initiative resulted in an action-oriented master plan for revitalizing public open space, preserving cultural and natural resources and cultivating sustainable plant communities–prairie, wooded bottomlands and xeric hillside savannas. The patternbook report serves as a roadmap for kindling the site’s latent ecological richness with targeted investments and design standards for future design and construction projects.

2021 Recipient MD-OK ASLA Merit Awards