JWH Portfolio 2025 by Jacob Huffman

SELECTED WORKS URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO

JACOB HUFFMAN

jwh297@gmail.com | Raleigh, NC | (980) 297-3250

JACOB HUFFMAN

Urban Designer | Geographer

WORK EXPERIENCE

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

NC State College of Design 2025 - present

OWNER + OPERATOR

Kudzu Makes 2023 - present

ASSOCIATE URBAN DESIGNER AND PLANNER

City of Charlotte Urban Design Center 2020 - 2023

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture

UNC Charlotte Department of Geography and Earth Sciences 2018 - 2020

GENERAL MANAGER

Crown Town Compost 2016 - 2018

GARDEN PROGRAM MANAGER

Shamrock Gardens Elementary School 2016 - 2017

NATIONAL SERVICE CORPSMAN

AmeriCorps + FoodCorps 2014 - 2016

EDUCATION

MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

NC State University | 2025 - 2027

MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN

UNC Charlotte | 2020

MASTER OF GEOGRAPHY

UNC Charlotte | 2020

PERMACULTURE DESIGNER 1

SOW Permaculture - Greensboro, NC | 2018

BSc IN GEOGRAPHY

UNC Charlotte | 2014

BA IN GERMAN

UNC Charlotte | 2014

Urban Designer, Geographer, aspiring Landscape Architect with 10+ years of experience. Keen on the intersections between urban green infrastructures, public space, micro-mobility, and community agriculture. Seeking to utilize my skillset to create healthy, equitable spaces for communities to grow and flourish.

Lorem Ipsum - 2025 - Charlotte, NC | Orange Exhibition

Dupp + Swat - 2025 - Charlotte, NC | Azuma Kara

Goodyear Arts - 2025 - Charlotte, NC | Nutrient Rich Petra’s - 2025 - Charlotte, NC | Cosmicavern

Petra’s - 2024 - Charlotte, NC | Small Works Show

Goodyear Arts - 2024 - Charlotte, NC | Nutrient Rich

Adaptive Urbanism | Westhafen, Berlin

Existing site use incorporated in design intent through emphasis on public space and agricultural urbanism. Mobility networks modeled by pre-war reconstruction grid structure. Block form determined by building use. Natural and manmade environments meet through micromobility and programmatic site elements.

Adjacent street grid informs block logic

Conceptual massing defines new built environment

Hines Competition 2020 | Miami, FL

Green infrastructure networks proposed in flood prone sites. These stormwater control measures integrate with mobility and public space networks across the downtown core. New urbanist style block form emerges from new stormwater treatment trains. On this team I was responsible for researching green infrastructure models, developing diagrams, developing maps for plan and perspective drawings, and generating the content for the copy text.

Existing conditions

Bioretention below pedestrian allée

Playscapes integrated into SCM’s

Degraded infrastructure

Drains integrated with gray infrastructure

Increased water detention

Swales + rain gardens on lower traffic streets

Streams traversable by box culvert

Technical Assistance - Different Wrld | Asheville, NC

These are samples from a technical assistance for placemaking document I put together for the business owners at this site who identified security incidents in adjacent public ROW. The document was intended to guide their efforts to improve lighting, security and aesthetics in the side street between the business locations and neighborhood residents.

Green Infrastructure | Lumberton, NC

Neighborhoods in South Lumberton are regularly flooded due to their situation in the Tar River watershed. Flooded parcels remain vacant. This project explores how vacant lots can both mitigate flooding and provide urban amenities through activation for social use and phased development of green infrastructure stormwater control measures.

City of Charlotte Urban Design Center | 2020 - 2023

Interdepartmental Graphic Support - Sugar Creek Corridor of Opportunity

These diagrams provided graphic communication for the Corridors of Opportunity Playbook along Sugar Creek Road. This is a high-traffic, high-crime corridor, residents are seeking infrastructure investment that will increase safety, improve mobility and attract new-urbanism style of development.

City of Charlotte Urban Design Center | 2020 - 2023

Interdepartmental Graphic Support - Tree Canopy Maintenence Division

As the City implemented the new unified development ordinance I provided graphic support to multiple departments overhauling their regulatory documentation for public reference. These diagrams were developed for tree protection zone guidelines.