Symons Valley

The Symons Valley Ranch Farmer’s Market (SVRFM) represents a full spectrum offering of a more sustainable lifestyle - health, wellness and productivity - and residential options to house today’s families. Envisioned as a Sustainable Economic Evolution District (SEED), the Master Village Concept Plan provides for a range of adaptive business, academic, and cultural systems that operate synergistically and holistically. Based on an urban pattern that enables mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods with multi-functional public spaces to encourage interaction, and innovation, a series of corridors, courts, and plazas intimately connect site.

SEED visionary proposal strives to preserve the culture of central Alberta’s prairie land, as well as celebrate the site’s agrarian and ranching legacy by incorporating complex medieval layout patterns - interconnected systems of activated alleys, plazas, central market square while providing spaces framed by built form for urban food production in support of), thus promoting a production-based society.