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 Do
you have an interest in building healthy, sustainable urban communities?
Would you like to learn about "green" design at the neighborhood
scale? Are you interested in ecological sustainability? Do you appreciate
diverse opinions and engaging dialogue? If so, please join us for the
9th Annual H.O.P.E.S. design charrette to come up with creative, practical,
and fun ways of designing sustainable solutions for the University's East
Campus neighborhood. No previous planning or design experience is needed.
By participating, you can earn UO credit, network with local professionals,
work on a multi-disciplinary team of community members, students, and
faculty, and share your vision for this neighborhood in transition.
During the charrette, participants will apply the UO Sustainable
Development Plan to the draft East Campus Development Plan. Each team
will design one site plan for the 15-acre East Campus area with a specific
focus on patterns and networks. Each team will include the proposed "sustainability
demonstration house" as a component of their plan. Teams will be
encouraged to design the site plan and building focusing on the following
themes from the UO Sustainable Development Plan: open space network, land
use/transportation, water and water treatment, energy use, and process/community
building.
The 24-hour design charrette will begin Thursday, April
10th at 5 pm with an introduction and overview and will end with a professional
review session 3:30-5 pm on Friday, April 11th. Teams may spend as much
of that time as they choose on the project. We are excited to announce
that reviewers will include Richard
Register, from Eco-City Berkeley, Lois
Arkin, from the Los Angeles Eco-Village, Kathryn
McCamant, co-author of Co-Housing, and local professionals and faculty
from many disciplines.
The charrette will take place in Lawrence 278/279. Materials
will be provided. Space is limited; please register soon by returning
the enclosed registration form. Updates will be available on our website:
http://edc.uoregon.edu/.
 The
Ecological Design Center is interested in how the University will live
up to neighbors' expectations and meet the criteria set out by the UO
Sustainable Development Plan adopted in 2000. We have been and continue
to be available to work with the University to help this exciting process.
It is important for us to remember that the plan is not the design, and
it is precisely in the design process where the concerns about the quality
and feeling of the plan can be addressed. The intent of this charrette
is to generate many good ideas, many of which can be integrated into future
designs or design policies. However, designs generated may not be ready
for immediate implementation. The products of the charrette will be formally
presented to the University's Campus Planning Committee as suggestions
for guiding the planning and design process. We have already received
positive support from both the University and the Fairmount Neighborhood
Association about the charrette.
The UO East Campus neighborhood is in transition. Bordering
Agate Street, the blocks between 15th and 19th streets currently contain
mostly low-density housing. The Campus Planning Committee is reviewing
a draft East Campus Development Plan to be adopted. As the plan states,
"While a limited amount of land remains available for academic uses
within the core academic area, the university needs to look beyond the
core campus area to locate support services that are not strictly academic
in nature." East Campus will become a transition between three areas:
institutional uses, high-density housing, and low-density housing. The
charrette will be a unique opportunity to explore neighbors' concerns
about parking, traffic, the high density aesthetic, notification procedures,
and maintenance; students' concerns about the open space network, sustainable
development principles, community participation, and housing needs; and
the University's concerns about expanding in the near future in order
to meet housing and institutional needs effectively.
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Do
you have an interest in building healthy, sustainable urban communities?
Would you like to learn about "green" design at the neighborhood
scale? Are you interested in ecological sustainability? Do you appreciate
diverse opinions and engaging dialogue? If so, please join us for the
9th Annual H.O.P.E.S. design charrette to come up with creative, practical,
and fun ways of designing sustainable solutions for the University's East
Campus neighborhood. No previous planning or design experience is needed.
By participating, you can earn UO credit, network with local professionals,
work on a multi-disciplinary team of community members, students, and
faculty, and share your vision for this neighborhood in transition.
The
Ecological Design Center is interested in how the University will live
up to neighbors' expectations and meet the criteria set out by the UO
Sustainable Development Plan adopted in 2000. We have been and continue
to be available to work with the University to help this exciting process.
It is important for us to remember that the plan is not the design, and
it is precisely in the design process where the concerns about the quality
and feeling of the plan can be addressed. The intent of this charrette
is to generate many good ideas, many of which can be integrated into future
designs or design policies. However, designs generated may not be ready
for immediate implementation. The products of the charrette will be formally
presented to the University's Campus Planning Committee as suggestions
for guiding the planning and design process. We have already received
positive support from both the University and the Fairmount Neighborhood
Association about the charrette.