Watershed worked with teachers, students, and community leaders to create the Master Plan and Schematic Design for a sustainably designed center for learning and the arts in downtown Fairhope.
The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is being developed on the grounds of Fairhope’s first high school in a historic building that has sat vacant for over 10 years.
Watershed is working with the Hope Community on the planning and design of a community center and museum, teaching kitchen, teaching farm, and park on a 12-acre site in Fairhope South.
Watershed worked closely with Thompson Engineering and a steering committee made of community stakeholders to design Fairhope’s newest park, the 72-acre Flying Creek Nature Preserve. Construction is underway – mark your calendars to come hike this spring!
This adaptive reuse of an existing home into a Nature Center to serve the city’s newest park, Flying Creek Nature Preserve, is underway and will open to the public in 2025.
Watershed worked with Moffatt and Nichol to solicit extensive public feedback for the master plan of the Bayou La Batre City Docks, and to design a destination that supports economic and ecological revitalization.
Repair, renovation, and expansion of the American Legion’s headquarters overlooking Mobile Bay to accommodate the Legion’s ALERT emergency operations program, career counseling and other programs, club offices and meeting space, and a commercial restaurant.
The Summit Street Inn has had a long life since it was constructed as the Fairhope Hotel in 1925. Watershed is working with the current owner to revitalize the building into a modern boutique hotel.
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These affordable, healthy, and resilient homes are now under construction in Mobile’s historic Oakdale neighborhood.
The Gulf Coast Center for Ecotourism and Sustainability is a campus of resilient green buildings set in a restored coastal forest with both indoor and outdoor learning spaces.
This home, which overlooks Bayou Charbon in Fairhope, was nicknamed ‘Petite Charbon’ as a nod to the homeowners’ design directive.
This Zero Energy Ready home is located in a historic neighborhood with narrow lots, just a block away from Mobile Bay.
The award-winning Pavilion and Outdoor Classroom is Phase One of the master plan for Fairhope Educational Enrichment Foundation’s Nest Educational Enrichment Campus.
This residence is the first project ever to to achieve Zero Energy Ready Certification and FORTIFIED™ Gold, but homeowners didn’t start out looking for the honor.
The Green Inspiration Home celebrates a healthy coastal lifestyle and a healthy environment, with beauty and style.
An addition and deep renovations of an historic office building in Fairhope’s Central Business District, to create a welcoming, safe and healing space for meetings, workshops, events, and yoga classes, alongside a thriving clinical practice.
A center for health and healing designed with biophilic principles, energy efficiency, and resilience.
Auburn University’s Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory is a state-of-the-art facility built to withstand extreme structural testing loads previously only possible in the field.
Watershed designed this net zero energy demonstration home in a vernacular coastal style that draws on the rich history of the community.
A space for art with an open, single-level floor plan adaptable for multigenerational living.
A fortified and flood protected treehouse retreat, nestled into a large tract of dense woods and wetlands overlooking Fish River.
Natural elements create a biophilic interior to promote green and healthy living, while reducing energy costs for this small business.
Alabama’s first Living Building demonstrates not only resilience to the symptoms of climate change, but the possibility of a cure.
The Gulf State Park Lodge is now the first SITES® hospitality project in the world and the first certified FORTIFIED™ Commercial Building in the world, raising the bar globally for resilient structural design and land development projects.
An overarching vision for every visitor to be able to connect with nature. Watershed is proud to be part of the master planning team for Gulf State Park, led by internationally recognized Sasaki Associates, and supported by a team of local experts.
The Learning Campus is sited on 16 acres of upland forest at Gulf State Park, adjacent to park headquarters. The facilities include “bunk room” style lodging facilities, an auditorium, indoor and outdoor classrooms, and a restaurant.
Charm, durability and ease of maintenance meet downtown living. Located just two blocks from the heart of downtown Fairhope, Knoll Park Residences looks out over historic Knoll Park and Mobile Bay.
A clean, energy efficient design for the next phase of life. It’s not unusual for Watershed to field requests to design a home around a tree, but this couple added a few twists.
The Master Plan seeks to identify opportunities for the creation of safe, sustainable, and accessible paddling infrastructures and protect environmental resources.
An energy-efficient renovation upgrades the classic cottage style for a modern family lifestyle.
A new home on Mobile Bay’s Eastern Shore designed to maximize light and views, and celebrate salvaged and recycled materials.
The design plays with light: bouncing indirect lighting off ceilings, using antique mirrors to reflect light and leafy views into interior spaces, and deploying louvered shutters to give a west-facing suite the feeling of a shady tropical retreat.
An old structure takes on new life as a center for environmental education and celebration.
An energy efficient, flexible space in harmony with nature.
Affordable green and sustainable home designs with superior construction and built-in equity.
In December of 2008, the Rosemary Beach residence was the first custom home in Florida to be certified LEED Platinum.
A research facility and education center that’s a model of energy efficient design.
A roadmap to promote stewardship and eco-conscious development.
