Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Charrettes Request for Affordable Housing

[Laura Fitch, A.I.A. (lfitch]

Elizabeth Stevenson wrote:

What is a Charrete?


"Charrette" comes from the french word for the horse drawn taxi that 
transported the student with his (her?) final drawing after an intense 
design session to their evaluation at the Academie des Beaux Arts.  It 
is rumored that students continued to draw on the way to deliver them.

Now a days the term refers to any intensive design process:  students 
working late at night to finish a presentation before review - towns 
setting up town wide brainstorming / design session to address an issue 
- architectural firms working overtime to produce a competition entry - etc.

Aren't you glad you asked???

In the cohousing design process a charrette would be something like the 
group spending a weekend day manipulating blocks on a site plan to 
develop schematic site plan.  

Gotta go - time to "charrette"! - Laura

--
Laura Fitch, A.I.A.
Principal Architect

KRAUS-FITCH ARCHITECTS, INC.
110 Pulpit Hill Rd.
Amherst, MA  01002
413-549-5799
413-549-7918 (fax)

lfitch [at] krausfitch.com




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