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Assigned professor - Felsen Met - Fri 10/28
 * Studio Assignment - Spring 2012**

Advisers I would like to have on this project -
 * Ben Riley (confirmed yes), for issues of integration between project pieces
 * Susan Conger-Austin, for her continuing expertise on school + community center design
 * TBD professor, for aesthetic issues arising between buildings and neighborhood, and between the buildings themselves


 * Updated Material**
 * Goals + Guiding Principles
 * Stakeholder List


 * Goals and Design Responses**
 * To improve the daily life of a child through design, and improve the lives of the many (family) through improving the lives of the one (child)
 * School will be designed and scaled to the needs of the child(ren) - teachers, administrators, and parents are NOT the primary users.
 * Community center will provide a variety of activities for all family members, not just children's sports or after-school programs.
 * Houses will be designed with flexible spaces to adapt to changing needs.
 * To recognize the interconnectivity between the individual, family, and community
 * The ultralocal style will be respected and, if appropriate, used in the design of the houses.
 * Appropriate sustainable strategies will be employed in all buildings. While no specific LEED criteria will be set for any building, sustainability - specifically, reduction of energy cost - is a priority.
 * No existing usable properties will be destroyed - all construction will either reclaim a vacant lot or replace a dilapidated or abandoned structure.
 * To integrate the disparate spaces used by the child into a wholly designed unit
 * Buildings, although they will be spread across approximately a half-mile of West Englewood, will be united through aesthetic and formal decisions.
 * No public or semipublic space will be single-use - community, park, and school functions will overlap and the three systems will share elements (ex: sports fields).
 * Improvements may be made to infrastructure to physically link the spaces.
 * To act as a catalyst for neighborhood change
 * To allow space for spontaneous interaction between the smaller community of the child and the larger communities of the neighborhood and city
 * Car use will be discouraged and bike use encouraged at all public sites, in order to foster human-speed passage between them.
 * Design will focus on restoring Englewood's status as a home community.
 * When safety concerns dictate buildings' security needs, those needs will be met by utilizing trained personnel, neighborhood watch-style programs, or unobtrusive measures (ex. monitored cameras) - not fences, bars, gates, or other exclusionary tactics. The people will protect each other.


 * Guiding Principles**
 * The school will be conceptually open even when physically enclosed. It is a space for the neighborhood and of it, not apart or removed. Decisions of scale will be based on the children who use the space and on Montessori principles.
 * All buildings will be integrated into the landscape in such a way that outdoor space is well-utilized in warm months and adds to the site's beauty year-round.
 * Appropriate sustainable strategies and cost-saving measures will be used but will not be allowed to detract from the buildings' function or aesthetic.
 * Single-purpose or limited-use spaces are to be discouraged; integration of spaces (even if across sites) is to be encouraged.
 * Homes will be built using evidence-based design principles, and acknowledging that "home" should be a place usable by people of all abilities and at all stages of life.
 * Recognizing the correlation between quality schools and home values, and the correlation between children's success in life and the educational accomplishment of their mothers, a large focus of this project will be on educational spaces.
 * The project as a whole will respect the existing fabric of West Englewood and the families who call this neighborhood home.


 * Stakeholders - SCHOOL**
 * 1) Kid - as design catalyst, first primary user
 * 2) Kid's siblings and classmates - as fellow primary users
 * 3) Kid's teachers - as secondary users
 * 4) Kid's parents, classmates' parents - as tertiary users
 * 5) Community of West Englewood - as quaternary users, neighbors whose community will (hopefully) be improved upon, (limited) financial backers
 * 6) Chicago Public Schools - as property owners and administrators, financial backers, maintainers of educational standards
 * 7) City of Chicago - as political and financial backers


 * Stakeholders - COMMUNITY CENTER**
 * 1) Kid - as design catalyst, first primary user
 * 2) Kid's family, friends, community - as fellow primary users
 * 3) Community of West Englewood - as secondary users, possible financial backers, neighbors whose community will (hopefully) be improved upon
 * 4) Catholic Church - responsible for chapel and faith-based initiatives, financial backers, lessees of Co-Op
 * 5) Urban Village Co-Op - as property owner, nonprofit organization responsible for farming, non-faith-based initiatives, lessors to Catholic Church
 * 6) City of Chicago - as possible financial backers


 * Stakeholders - MOTHER'S HOUSE**
 * 1) Kid - as design catalyst, primary user
 * 2) Mother - as property owner, first primary user, financial backer
 * 3) Family members (5 other people) - as fellow primary users
 * 4) Community of West Englewood - as neighbors, members of a community with a certain "look" and "feel" to its housing stock
 * 5) City of Chicago - responsible for housing standards


 * Stakeholders - FATHER'S HOUSE**
 * 1) Kid - as design catalyst, primary user
 * 2) Father and stepmother - as property owners, first primary users, financial backers
 * 3) Future family members - will be born into house, primary users
 * 4) Community of West Englewood - as neighbors, members of a community with a certain "look" and "feel" to its housing stock
 * 5) City of Chicago - responsible for housing standards


 * Stakeholders - MURRAY PLAYLOT PARK**
 * 1) Kid - as design catalyst, primary user
 * 2) Kid's family, friends, community - as fellow primary users
 * 3) Community of West Englewood - as secondary users, neighbors whose community will (hopefully) be improved upon
 * 4) Chicago Park District - as financial backers, property owner
 * 5) City of Chicago - as political backers