Design Charrette Weekend

Using your program for your assigned group, design your ideal container transformation.

Be inventively practical. Don't let practicality squash your dreams but don't be outlandish. Think through, or troubleshot your ideas but don't go down a rabbit hole.

For those of you unclear about what a charrette is (from wikipedia)...

A charrette (American pronunciation: /ˈʃɑːrɛt/), often Anglicized to charette or charet and sometimes called a design charrette, is an intense period of design or planning activity.

The word charrette is French for "cart" or "chariot." Its use in the sense of design and planning arose in the 19th century at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where it was not unusual at the end of a term for teams of student architects to work right up until a deadline, when a charrette would be wheeled among them to collect up their scale models and other work for review. Their continued working furiously to apply the finishing touches came to be referred to as working en charrette, "in the cart."[1] Émile Zola depicted such a scene of feverish activity, a nuit de charrette or "charrette night," in L'Œuvre (serialized 1885, published 1886), his fictionalized account of his friendship with Paul Cézanne.[2] The term evolved into the current design-related usage in conjunction with working right up until a deadline.[3]

Basically, work en masse. Lots of it. If you find yourself thinking and not making things draw or make your thoughts.

Concentrate on designing to meet your program according to your desire and ideal but also address the following:

Relationship to the ground. Maybe you already considered this in your program adjacency.

Accessible Restroom (1). Here is some dwg linework of an accessible restroom for your use. Yes, sorry! I had to throw that in.

Transport. Loading/unloading. It's not that often but you don't want to break it.

BTW, in lieu of just sliding these things off the bed of a truck, boom trucks are an option. There are still considerations for attachment, etc. I have placed a bunch of examples here... and here is the chart from an equipment rental business that serves Orlando and carries this type of equipment. There are others, Sun Belt, CBS, etc.

Here are techniques, sling devices..

This should get you thinking about how we deliver.

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Stephen D. Bender, AIA
UF Citylab Orlando
bndr, llc.
352-682-4986 Mobile 
http://bndrd.com
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