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PROJECT APPROACH CONTINUED
What do you want to do? Placemaking
When we begin the programming phase, we Moving from the internally-focused Building
don’t ask our clients how big the classrooms Program and its lists, numbers, and diagrams
should be or how much storage space is to initial design concepts for the Field House,
needed or the relationship between various Fine Arts Center, and Cafe in specific campus
training rooms. Instead, we ask you to tell locations is often the most exciting moment in
us what you want to do. How do you like to the design process. Now the external forces of
teach? What materials and equipment do you orientation, geology, and relationship to other
need to have on hand? What is the preferred buildings and the natural surroundings come
practice regimen for the volleyball team? into play.
From these discussions we will create a In these days our team will utilize a wide
Building Program for the Field House, the variety of tools and techniques to convey
Fine Arts Center, and the Café. The program design ideas related to massing, imagery, and
will take into account the way Regents School three-dimensionality. The campus context
does things – your culture – and will reflect will be carefully analyzed for clues by which
this through lists, numbers, and diagrams. It is the new buildings and landscaping might
a key step in concretizing your Vision. be woven into the existing fabric, at once
strengthening the old and opening up new
Based on these discussions, we will arrive perspectives for the future generations who
at an understanding of the spaces you will will come to learn.
need (quantities and square footage), the
requirements within each space (lighting,
furniture, HVAC control, etc.), and the
relationship among these spaces (critical
adjacencies, circulation flow, etc.).
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