Planning

Providence Landing

Working with Central Missouri Community Action, A Civil Group, and especially developer Rob Wolverton, Monarch developed five unique single family-attached home designs for a neighborhood development. The homes range in size from one bedroom, one bathroom to three bedroom, two bathroom units. The development will provide affordable housing in a walkable area of downtown Columbia, […]

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Schematic Six-Plex Affordable Housing

Having recently acquired a new headquarters building and neighboring vacant property in downtown Columbia, local non-profit Love Columbia needed an architect to develop schematic plans for a multi-family apartment building. Working with Crockett Engineering, Monarch conducted a site analysis, preliminary code review, and schematic plans. These first design steps enabled the organization to begin assessing

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Cultivate Co. Master Plan

The owners of Cultivate Co, a farm featuring cut flowers and a nascent orchard, worked with Monarch to create a Master Plan. Adrienne consulted with Adam Saunders as well as a civil engineer to understand how the vision for their farm could be achieved within existing zoning restraints. The resulting Master Plan provides a strategy

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Sustainability-Centered Meetinghouse

Monarch worked with the Columbia Friends Meeting (Quaker) congregation to design a modest worship space and fellowship area that blends into the surrounding central Columbia residential area. Environmentally-friendly design was a high prioritity and the congregation aims to achieve annual net-zero electric consumption. A shared parking agreement with the adjacent school, a well insulated wall

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