BRIDGING THE COMMUNITY

from Tye Allison Selected Works 2025

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Bridging The Community

Nomas Student Design Competition

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE; 2022

For this NOMAS design competition, we were given a prompt to create a bridge that would reconnect a disrupted North Nashville Black community. A interstate highway was purposely constructed in a way to cut through this community to dismantle black businesses and property wealth. Many families were displaced and many black business were shut down due to this constructed highway. Our collaborated project design solution was to uplift the community and bridge the two sides back together with separate pedestrian and vehicle tunnels. We also incorporated outdoor activity spaces and a multi-cultural center to provide educational, cultural and business opportunities for the community. The idea of this project was to acknowledge this devastating history with the intention to also heal and empower black individuals impacted by this highway. My whole group collaborated throughout the conceptual idea process of the project. My personal contribution was the exterior facade design, renders, and elevations.