CORE 10-12-12 Minutes

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