Aldea de Santa Fe is a town designed by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co now under construction in New Mexico. The project includes the first public plaza to be constructed in New Mexico in more than a century. Following the town-founding charrette, we elaborated on the architectural design of the plaza and surrounding buildings. Its dimensions and proportions follow the principles of plaza design in New Mexico, directed to the idea of such a place being both the functional and symbolic center of a town. A community center building dominates the plaza. The fabric buildings surrounding the rest of it are designed in traditional New Mexico form and are meant to be used flexibly over time, beginning with live/work uses and proceeding with office/retail uses as the market allows. Images > 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Plan Read > "The Plazas of New Mexico" Read > "New Plazas for New Mexico" Conference, October 2001