Professors Olin/Livingston/Boyce
Our focus for this design problem will be a site 10 km to the West and East of the border crossings immediately adjacent to the town of Slavonice. This is the same "site" UPENN studio used for its last sketch problem prior to this trip.
We will divide the site into 4 sectors of 5km in length and each team will be responsible for documenting their portion of the site and producing a base map for use by all of the teams when making thier proposals for the entire 10 km, or a portion of the 10 km on which the group decides to focus.
Each team must create a proposal, which reflects on the ideas of "borders" and "ecologies", both environmental and human. Your proposal should consider how Slavonice can be a prototype for interventions along and connections to the proposed European Greenbelt that will engage the positive economic development of nearby rural towns.
Teams must demonstrate how visitors arrive in Slavonice and once there how they access the proposed intervention on our site. Some of the drawings by last year's studio still on display in the School should be reviewed for helpful information in further understanding how the town's existing open space framework--it's paths and places work and how the circulation of vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians is currently handled throughout the seasons.
Most of the day was spent building a "base map", a map of topography, roads, rivers and waterways, cities, forests, and everything else that all the groups could share. In the afternoon the U.S. Embassy drove down from Prague to meet us and learn a bit about what we were going to be presenting. The first of many long days!
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