HAWTHORNE GROVE

Hawthorne Grove is a community of individual cottages in Rogers, Arkansas, oriented around a porch-forward lifestyle and abundant shared open space. For this project, Blockwright developed a prototype framework that allowed a conventionally planned subdivision to read and function like a rear-loaded, walkable neighborhood. The goal was to shape a calm, sociable public realm where homes and porches carry the visual and social character, rather than garage doors and parked cars.

Blockwright accomplished this by carefully structuring access and parking so the neighborhood stays people-scaled. Shared driveways and compact parking courts reduce the dominance of curb cuts and wide drive aisles, keep vehicles visually secondary, and allow front façades and porches to remain primary.

To add gentle density and build a more complete neighborhood fabric, Blockwright incorporated accessory dwelling units on nearly every lot. These ADUs establish consistent secondary frontages at the rear, including conditions oriented toward the Razorback Greenway. In several locations, rear-facing ADUs align across a shared property line, turning what would typically become a fence-dominated service zone into a promenade-like space with doors, windows, and front steps facing each other.