CORE 10-12-12 Minutes….taken on the run and
not edited (apologies in advance for any misquotes)
KIN for Five Minutes (Quality and Direction
of our Process)
(starting with a
summary of Jim Martin's presentation at the BigPic)
Some basic thoughts concerning our current
process:
1. Our relationship
with the DRB.
a. Risk credibility if
we keep showing up with unresolved plans.
2. Our position with
the Regenisis Approach
a. Should we bring
back Bill, John and Joel?
3. Question: Do we
really want the students to design the campus???
ROBIN:
Susan's DRB focus on the design specifications have derailed our focus on the
overall PLAN.
We've
made good progress on integrating the old building.
We
need to have DRB planning within a few months or a year at the outside (kin)
KATE:
Likes the idea of a one year re-visit with John, Joel and Bill
Feels
like there's a middle ground as far as the students' involvement in the
project. Worries about what we will lose when we leave the students
out of the design process.
Time
line is also an issue - feedback is curious and worried, "What's going
on?" Grousing, etc.
KATHY:
Feels like we're floundering. Goal is clear-ish, but we don't know how to
get there. She feels like she's run
out
of juice.
JOHN:
Optimistic - keep the course. Double down. The feeling that we're
moving backward is the inertia of
grinding
through real challenges. Don't need to have the students design
the entirety of the buildings. Need to have them meaningfully and
educationally involved. Beaux Art teaching tradition.
KIN:
Would it be useful to have the students involved in the DRB application?
KATHY
& ROBIN: Statutes don't give us the time to have the students
involved.
4. What is the
likelihood of making the DRB December deadline.
a. Can we get the
topos and the landscaping done in that time?
b. Can we show: roads,
paths, lighting, screening, parking, fire access, outdoor areas - Coherence?
c. Would a schematic
landscaping plan help give a sense of coherence?
d. How do we know it's
regenerative, cohesive...in short: has a parti
5. Resolve to:
1. Finish the CAD topo
rough.
2. Have Peter L'chek
input the proposed topos (with guidance)
3. Review results and
hand over to Andres and other?
4. Create rough
landscaping plan focused on drainage, hardscape, roads and pathways.
6. TO DO: Bring in
suggestions for appropriate landscape design talent:
a. Peter Las'ch'k may
have suggestions
b. Ellen Strauss may
have suggestions
c. David Raphael is
a suggestion
d. Sugarbush (and
Edgecomb et al) may have suggestions
