Thank You to Everyone Who Helped to Make this Happen

Organized by - Corvallis Design Group
Sponsored by - Southwestern Oregon Chapter American Institute of Architects
Charrette Venue - Belle Vallee Wine Cellars
Sustainable Building Network
Free Straw Rental - Venell Farms

A special thanks to all of our charrette participants who contributed their time and expertise.

Refined Maps

Planning with Spontinaity

"Pervious Planning Perspectives for Healthy Habitats: a Micro-Charrette for Quick Intensive Design”

We will be entering REBURBIA, a contest for the redesign of suburbia.

Thanks to all who participated in the Charrette. Please contact us if you would like to participate in the refinement of this plan.

Our design transformed the mundane vision of the common neighborhood cul-de-sac into a vibrant place, stimulating human interaction and turning liability into a resource.

Final Vision Graphics

Design Team "A"

Design Team "B"

Design Team "C"

daVinci Days Presentation - Saturday July 18

1:10 - 1:40 PM “Pervious Planning Perspectives for Healthy Habitats”;

This is a micro charrette; a small creative planning and design workshop.

• What would we do if we were faced with the need or desire to remove 50% of our local impervious surfaces?
• How can we effectively work with our neighbors, design experts, scientists, etc. to co-create while providing everyone ownership of the design?
  

We guide participants toward creating a common vision and then collaborate toward a design that will ultimately serve to recharge local groundwater and subtracting from the danger created from excess stormwater runoff.

Emerald Forest Architecture, NobleUrbanDesign


1:40 – 2:10 PM “Our Stream: Design Visions for the Dixon Creek”;

Here are the results of the 5 hour charrette of June 27, 2009. We will summarize process and product of this mini charrette. 3 teams each created a collaborative vision for the future of this creek. These diverse teams brought their expertise and local knowledge together to create better human/creek interaction as well as environmental sustainability. This is an exercise in creating robust common visions. It is robust, because as each participant's designs are facilitated into one common vision, that vision increases in complexity and ownership.

Corvallis Design Group: Chick Gerke Architect, Broad Leaf Architecture, Emerald Forest Architecture, NobleUrbanDesign

Design Team "C"

Design Team "B"

Design Team "A"

Charrette Begins

Models

Charrette Invitation

“Our Urban Stream: Visions for Dixon Creek near the Willamette”
Design Charette, Saturday, June 27th, 2009 / 10 am to 3 pm

Corvallis architects and planners interested in exploring sustainability concepts for public presentation at daVinci Days (17-19 July, 2009) invite you to participate in a half-day design charette on Saturday, June 27th, from 10 am to 3 pm (location in Corvallis TBA).

The theme of this year’s daVinci Days is water, so we’ve chosen to look at the natural features associated with the Dixon Creek area between NW 10th Street through to NW 5th Street and how they interact with a multitude of land uses & transportation issues. We plan to produce several varied visions of and inspirations based upon this diverse and representative site.

We’re forming design teams of architects, engineers, planners, designers, landscape architects and related professionals to create a community vision for future mixed-use development. Architects will facilitate the team effort – integrating input from other members, and resulting in comprehensive design strategies to grow a sustainable future in Corvallis. Please join us as we demonstrate for our community the strength of a collaborative vision.

Professional participants will receive 4 HSW Continuing Education hours (approval pending) and we’ll provide a nice lunch in exchange for your taking part.

Please contact Chick Gerke (541) 757-0554 [chick@crgarchitect.com] as soon as possible to allow us to plan for your participation. Chick will also add you to the Google Group and other weblinks for background information.

Dixon Creek on a Rainy Day (from the willamette to 10th st.)