Laura Lesniewski

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LCI Design Forum
Getting the Charrette Before the Horse
Laura Lesniewski BNIM Architects 10 December 2004
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We shall require a substantially new manner of
thinking if mankind is to survive. --
Albert Einstein
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North Charleston Redevelopment
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Sustainable Design Principles
people
prosperity
planet
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Community Involvement
PURPOSE Partner the wisdom of the community
with the expertise of the development team to
emerge the best solutions.
INFORM
EDUCATE
NOISETTE COMPANY
COMMUNITY
INVOLVE
Noisette Briefings Neighborhood
Meetings Treasures Process Crayons in the Hands
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Community-Based Planning Process

• Create a socially durable community by informing,
  educating and involving the citizens.

Four Step Process -Get to know -Eat and
greet -Treasures -Crayons in the hand
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Community-Based Planning Process
1. Get to know
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Community-Based Planning Process
2. Eat and greet
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Community-Based Planning Process
3. Community Treasures
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Community-Based Planning Process
4. Crayons in hand
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Master Plan Process

• A vision, not a plan developer as integrator
• Creating the Noisette brand
• Role of developer as planner, community
  organizer, economic development educator
• Establishing the self-worth of the community

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Values Principles
VALUES OF PLACE Value of Diversity Value of
Beauty and Aesthetics Value of Accidental Meeting
Place Value of Surprise and Discovery Value of
Resource Efficiency Value of Leaving Your
Mark Value of Human Form Emerging Naturally from
its Place
SANBORN PRINCIPLES Healthy Indoor Environment for
Occupants Ecologically Healthy Socially
Just Culturally Creative Beautiful Physically and
Economically Accessible Evolutionary
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Respect individuals, community and the environment
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Reweave strengthen the city tapestry
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Rekindle the city as a great place to grow
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Restore enhance the environment
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Rediscover opportunities for sanctuary, spiritual
renewal and inspiration
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Regenerate places for people to live, work and
play
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Eco House
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Eco House
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Valley Water Mill Springfield, Missouri
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• GUTAAKAA

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• Barbarea vulgaris (yellow rocket not flowering)
  
• Fine leaf fescue All from Europe

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• GUTAAKAA

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• GUTAAKAA

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• Neighbors to the south eating European pasture
  grass the more they eat, the more runoff you get

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• Dermatocarpon miniatum (moss) growing on rocks
  will not last due to shade natural limestone
  glade becoming rarer

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• MTIKWAAKEE

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• GUIDING PRINCIPLES

1 Every drop of water is treated either as a
waste product or a precious resource
2 Every person lives where rain falls, so each
person needs to be empowered to make good choices
about how it is curated
3 Every decision concerning the Watershed Center
(engineering, architecture and educational
program) will reflect

• responsible stewardship and
• an integrated design approach

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New Belgium Brewing Company
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1st Floor
2nd Floor
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Collective Decision Process
Architect BNIM
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Collective Decision Process
Architect BNIM
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Collaboration
The design team expands and includes

• Building owners, occupants and facility managers,
  other stakeholders
• Architects and interior designers
• Landscape architects, botanists, ecologist and
  soil hydrology experts
• Engineers from multiple disciplines

• Sustainable design consultants, indoor air
  quality experts, daylighting consultants
• Workplace consultants
• Contractors
• Sociologists, artists, educators as appropriate

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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Site planning
Workplace design
Sustainability
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Arbor Day Farm
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ADD REFERENCE IMAGES FROM OTHER PROJECTS THAT
WERE POSTED ON THE WALL
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Early Collaboration Arbor Day Farm, Nebraska
Architect BNIM
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bnim.com elements.bnim.com
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Lewis Clark Office Building Missouri
Department of Natural Resources
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Montana State University / NIST Demonstration
Project
The building was envisioned as operating like a
living organism with all systems interconnected.
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Goal we embrace
Reducing global warming, ozone degradation acid
rain by increasing efficiency, restoring
biodiversity and reducing the release of
contaminants. Improving tools for designing,
constructing, operating and evaluating
buildings. Exploring potential of human
resources (through education and empowerment) as
a major factor in environmental performance,
human health and economic productivity. Expressin
g Firmness, commodity and delight in the spirit
of the region so that the user/visitor can Feel
it through the skin. Maximizing the pedagogical
opportunities of the process and facility.
Increasing efficiency in flows of information
materials. Restoring biodiversity at the site
and neighborhood. Improving economic vitality
of the community and region. Promoting human
health, well being and productivity. Setting
new standards for energy efficiency and resource
conservationoperating energy has priority over
embodied energy
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Increase efficiency in flows of information and
materials.

• Therefore
• Measure transfer of information and technology
  in increments of thousands of miles.
• Measure the transportation of materials and
  equipment in increments of tens of miles.

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