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Community Buildings
We
have worked with a number of community groups wanting a
base for meeting, training, social events.
In
each case our role has begun with helping people to
decide what they want to be able to do; what activities
and what groups they want to accommodate. We then work
with them to explore what spaces might provide for their
needs, and will then work towards sketch design ideas.
Initial meetings might use anything from games to
listmaking and brainstorming. Corrugated cardboard is a
favourite ingredient of design workshops to look at
possible layouts, along with simple "jigsaws" of
building spaces which people can experiment with.
Once
we start to give form to people's ideas, we tend to use
3D CAD software so we can quickly produce visualisations
which show - with remarkable realism - what it would be
like to walk through the building and to use it.
The
same tools make discussions with other professionals -
planners and cost consultants - easier. We try to make
the design process accessible and fun. |
