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Michael D. Chason |
IMMEDIATE MARCH 24, 2008
PUBLIC INVITED TO JOIN
ABAC Campus Design Session MARCH 28-30
TIFTON – A team of urban
planners, landscape architects, historic preservationists, and designers from
the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design will arrive in Tifton on Friday for an
intensive, three-day public design session, or ‘charrette’,
to create a plan for the front of the
“The goal of the design charrette,”
said professor and team leader Pratt Cassity, “is to
involve the campus, alumni, the community, and all other interested parties in
the design from the beginning, to hear people’s points of view, and to create a
plan that will become the gateway to ABAC.”
The design team’s three-day
calendar includes the following public events:
March 28, 3 p.m.: Public Forum in Health Sciences
114, Introduction of Charrette Process, Public Input
Session;
March 29: Design Team Working Session;
March 30, 2 p.m.:
Presentation of Preliminary Results in Health Sciences 114, Public
Comment and Critique.
The team will establish a
full working design studio at the
“Within these three days, the
team is charged with designing and illustrating, in plans, maps and renderings,
a vision of the main entrance, buildings and landscape for the front of campus
at ABAC,” Cassity said. “We hope to design a plan
that truly fits ABAC’s vision for its future, and to
do that, we need everyone’s involvement and feedback.”
The closing presentation will display the
preliminary draft plan, and public comment is again invited. After the charrette, the design team will revise and complete
concepts developed during the charrette before
submitting the plan to ABAC.
The original three buildings on the front of the
ABAC campus, Tift, Lewis, and Herring Halls, are all closed for
rehabilitation.
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