Green Valley, Arizona · Mixed use

Kino Landing

A village built around two desert washes: retail and offices, a lifecare campus, housing, and a wellness destination.

4land uses in one village

13buildings in phase one

428parking spaces, phase one

2washes kept as they are

The brief

A village, not a shopping center

Kino Landing puts four things that usually sit apart on the same land: shops and offices, a lifecare campus, housing, and a wellness and hospitality destination. The point is that a resident can use all four on foot.

Two riparian washes cross the site. The easy move would have been to pipe them and build over the top. Instead they were kept, and the plan is laid out around them: buildings step back from the banks, terraces face the water, and the washes become the shaded spine that connects one part of the village to the next.

The architecture answers the Santa Cruz valley rather than a catalogue: tile roofs, thick walls, arcades and courtyards, in a scale that stays low against the mountains. Buildings run from 1,600 to 9,100 square feet, so the village reads as many small tenants instead of one large box.

Phase one is the commercial heart — thirteen buildings and 428 parking spaces, arranged in three courts so no one crosses a field of asphalt to reach a door.

The village

Low, shaded and turned inward

Entry to Kino Landing with stone marker and desert planting — The entry announces the village at the scale of a street, not a highway.

Street frontage of the village with arcades and tile roofs — Arcades carry the walk from one tenant to the next.

Village buildings clustered against the mountain backdrop — Nothing rises above the tree line; the mountains stay the horizon.

Aerial view of the Kino Landing courtyard village and parking courts — From above: three parking courts, each one small enough to walk out of.

The plan

Four uses, one piece of land

Kino Landing master plan showing retail and office, lifecare campus, residential and wellness and hospitality — Master plan of proposed land uses: retail and office, lifecare campus, residential, and destination wellness and hospitality.

Phase one site plan with thirteen buildings, three parking courts and the riparian washes — Phase one. Thirteen buildings from 1,600 to 9,100 sq ft, 428 parking spaces in three courts, and the two washes left in place.

In collaboration with ARTC Arquitectos.

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Kino Landing

A village, not a shopping center

Low, shaded and turned inward

Four uses, one piece of land

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