community design summer studio - cdae 195 cr1 - course syllabus

7/29/2019 Community Design Summer Studio - CDAE 195 CR1 - Course Syllabus

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1 HISTORYFriday morning July 19, 2013

PRESENTATION: TEN STONES slide show: an introduction to

the creation and last 24 years of the Ten Stones community.

STUDIO: CONCEPTS & LAYOUT: a site walk and discussion

2 INFRASTRUCTUREFriday afternoon July 19, 2013

PRESENTATION: ENERGY: a review of the current and prop

energy systems.

Guest lecturer: TBD

STUDIO: GAP exercise: GOALS

Assignment 1: Locate a site & program your projec

Required reading before class: "Creating A Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages andIntentional Community" by Diana Christian "CoHousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves" byKathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett
http://www.groundswellarchitects.com/http://www.groundswellarchitects.com/


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3 HUMAN COMMUNITYFriday morning July 26, 2013

WORKSHOP: an overview of popular approaches to organizing

a group of people to work together in a community setting.

Guest lecturer: TBD

STUDIO:GAP exercise: Activities & Places

4 DESIGN CONCEPTSFriday afternoon July 26, 2013

WORKSHOP 1: Site planning exercise, individual and team

design sketching, pin ups and review

5 LAND, PLANTS & ANIMALSFriday morning Aug 2, 2013

PRESENTATION: the Ten Stones agricultural efforts including

orchards, gardens, GSA, animals, pastures, land trust, WHIP

and ponds

WETLANDS & WATER: a review of septic systems & wells

Guest lecturer: TBA

6 ECOLOGICAL DESIGNFriday afternoon Aug 2, 2013

PRESENTATION: looking back at layouts, concepts and

drawings of the past 20 years of planning the Ten Stones

community.

STUDIO: Pin ups, energy requirements, building design

Assignment 2: Prepare concept sketches of your comm

Assignment 3: Rene sketches and drawings of you

community based on review by instructor


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7 HOMES & OTHER BUILDINGSThursday morning Aug 8, 2013

PRESENTATION: an introduction to the concept of natural capital

and ecological design as it applies to community.

STUDIO: COMMUNITY BUILDING exercise: Goals, Activities & Places

8 DESIGN CONCEPTSThursday afternoon Aug 8, 2013

WORKSHOP 2: continuing individual and team design

sketching, pin ups and review

9 PERMITS, ZONING & PLANNINGFriday morning Aug 9, 2013

PRESENTATION: history of the Ten Stones planning and zoning

process. A broad look at what to expect.

GUEST: Dean Bloch, Town of Charlotte Planning 11 AM

STUDIO: Work to the nish presentations!

10 JURIED REVIEWSFriday afternoon Aug 9, 2013

REVIEWS: Starting at 3:00 PM, Each student will have an

allotted time to present their project to the class.

I will have guest jurors to assist in reviewing and to offer

constructive comments.

FOOD: At the end of class review, I will cook fresh pizza an

have beverages available.

GRADING: as per Project Requirements & Grading

Assignment 4: Add energy systems & developmen

ideas to your project

TrueNorth

BarnGoats

(winter)

Goats(summer)

Chickens

TheGreat Maples

BoatStorage

Shed

CommunityGarden

Champlain Valley Compost

Beaudin Property

G R E E N B U S H R O A D

MinerProperty

CommunityOrchard

Leach field

Wetland

CommonHouse

OLDStumpDump

NEWStumpDump

FirePond

OrchardRoad

Wetlands buffer

No Cut zone

Woodland

Vermont Land TrustProtected Property= 40.32 acres

Agricultural

Land subject to inundation

Wetland

Pond

T

Ten Stones Circle (road)

Walking trails

Community parking lot

Buildings

Mailboxes

Town roads

Lot boundaries

Property line

Wells

Septic Leach field area

Underground Power Lines

Transformers & Pads

Artcreated from:

-Krebs & Lansingsite plan,October 1991

-Green Mountain Powerplan, 5.17.93with 5.2.97revisions

-Garmin GPSmap76trackinghardwarewith

ExpertGPS software

-GroundswellArchitects Common Housesite plan

Revision July2006

84.52totalacres

Ten Stones Community

Scale (in feet):

0' 50' 100' 200' 300' 500'

TOUR: Williams Hill or TBD


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You may present hand sketches on paper and/or digitalcontent using your laptop and/or my HD projector.

Grades will not be based on whether you use digital andhand drawn content.

Do a dress rehearsal before coming to make sure that yoare condent about what you are presenting and that yoles work.

Final Report Submission:

If you are presenting digital info,please save your les into afolder with your name on it.

Inside might be les such as: CAD les of your project saved in either the

ArchiCAD .pla format (saved project w/library parts)or .dwg format

Quicktime Movies in the .mov format

Photo renderings in the .jpg format Drawings in the .pdfformat

Grading ..................: Participation during week 15%.............................Project presentation 20%

................Project content & concepts 65%

You have been asked by a dream client to design anecological community on a site of your choosing. Youmay use any real location, or one that is conjured upfrom your imagination. This exercise will draw on yourcreative juices and use the skills that you are learningin our class. I will be dispensing encouragement,design comments and guiding your efforts during ourweek together.

While money is no object in this exercise, respect forour resources and environment surely is.

If you should have an actual site for your project, bringin any information on the contours (topography),along with what you can nd about planning, zoning,local codes and/or restrictions.

You will have an allotted amount of time to presentyour idea to our panel of guests. Your presentationskills and showmanship are encouraged!

Let imagination rule!

Final Design Review:

The most important aspects of your month longproject are the CONTENT and CONCEPTS. Presentationmust convey your intent.

Project Requirements & Grading


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How to nd Teds House:

Follow Route 7 south thru Shelburne Village to the rst light

ust past the Shelburne Museum... this is Bostwick Road

where you make a right turn and take the road west ... it will

become Greenbush Road as you cross the Charlotte Town

Line (Orchard Road intersects on the right at this point) ...

tay on Greenbush for another quarter mile and look for

Ten Stones Circle also on the right...You will have drivenabout 2 miles since turning at the light on Route 7... turn in,

drive past the mailboxes and park on the left. Walk down

he road, taking a left at the fork ... look for the sixth house

on the right, with a 477 marker next to the driveway.

Or, heading north on Route 7, take a left turn on F5 into

Charlotte village... turn right onto Greenbush, drive 2.5 miles

o the sign Ten Stones Circle and repeat the above...

Parking: Use the spaces next to the Common House on the

eft just past the mailboxes. DO NOT PARK IN MY DRIVEWAY

Phone: 802-425-7717

Montgomerys at 477 Ten Stones Circle, Charlotte, Vermont

Greenbush

Road

Ten Stones CircleStudent Parking

Teds House

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