1. Designing a Suburb
By: Kacie Luo, Steven Merced, Wayne Mok, Rachel Nam, Anaya Rodriguez, and Kun Yu

2. Our task
A wealthy citizen willed 100 undeveloped acres of wooded land bordering an urban area. In her will she designated that the land should be comprised of a mixed income community of 150 homes. Space for some shopping, doctor’s offices, restaurants, etc. should also be planned. Although streets for vehicle traffic are needed, it was her wish that it should be convenient and safe to travel by bike or on foot throughout the community.

3. Shareholder Jobs Anaya Rodriguez → Urban Planner
Kacie Luo → Interior Designer
Steven Merced → Civil Engineer
Rachel Nam → Landscape Architect
Wayne Mok → Health and Safety Engineer
Kun Yu → Architectural Engineer

4. Health and Safety Engineer
 Stakeholder Identity:  Wayne Mok
What is the nature of your work? What are your areas of expertise? The assigned task is to research and define guidelines and standards which the buildings must follow.
To research and define safe standards of living spaces and hold construction to certain livable standards
What issues are you responsible for that potentially no other stakeholders would know about?
Living space and conditions
Going into the charrette, list the top issues in order of importance that you want to address during the meeting.
Legal number of people living in a given area
Materials must be safe for tenant use, will not harm inhabitants even under stress
Area for homes
List any other important notes to yourself as you prepare for the charrette
N/A

5. Civil Engineer Stakeholder Identity: Steven Merced
What is the nature of your work? What are your areas of expertise? 
Public works, designs of buildings, layouts of plots
What issues are you responsible for that potentially no other stakeholders would know about?
Designs of trains, streets, walkways, garages, foundations, sewage, maintenance of buildings
Going into the charrette, list the top five issues in order of importance that you want to address during the meeting.
Allocation of land
Street sizes
Bike lanes
Parking lot that connects to mall
foundations
List any other important notes to yourself as you prepare for the charrette
More efficient use of land

6. Landscape Architect Stakeholder Identity: Rachel Nam
What is the nature of your work? What are your areas of expertise? 
Design parks, gardens, walkways, forests
What issues are you responsible for that potentially no other stakeholders would know about?
Public use of parks and how to divide up allocated space
Designing both urban and rural areas
Going into the charrette, list the top five issues in order of importance that you want to address during the meeting.
Public Parks
Walkways/Sidewalks
Gardens
List any other important notes to yourself as you prepare for the charrette
N/A

7. Architectural Engineer
Stakeholder Identity: Kun Yu
What is the nature of your work? What are your areas of expertise?
The nature of my work is applying architectural principles to the engineering of buildings
What issues are you responsible for that potentially no other stakeholders would know about?
The placement of residential buildings around the city
The design of the residential homes
Going into the charrette, list the top five issues in order of importance that you want to address during the meeting.
Amount of space allocated to residential homes
Different types of homes required for this town
An organized way of distributing different types of homes around the town
Scale and proportion of the buildings on the poster
List any other important notes to yourself as you prepare for the charrette.
N/A

8. Interior Design Stakeholder Identity: Kacie Luo
What is the nature of your work? What are your areas of expertise?
I am in charge of the aesthetic of the inside of our buildings. For this projects i focused on our recreation center and mall.
What issues are you responsible for that potentially no other stakeholders would know about?
How to make everything look pretty and placing of things on the insides of our buildings.
Going into the charrette, list the top five issues in order of importance that you want to address during the meeting.
How everything looks
What is going to be on each floor
What accessories would we like (ex. treadmills for the gym)
Clinic
Spacing
List any other important notes to yourself as you prepare for the charrette.
N/A

9. Urban Planner Stakeholder Identity: Anaya Rodriguez
What is the nature of your work? What are your areas of expertise?
My job consists of the technical and political processes concerned with the use of land and design of the urban environment. Basically, I have to make sure that there proper spacing for a comfortable environment.
What issues are you responsible for that potentially no other stakeholders would know about?
I have to make sure that the buildings and facilities within my community are well organized and allow easy transportation and communication between individuals.
Going into the charrette, list the top five issues in order of importance that you want to address during the meeting.
Sizes of homes, sizes of facilities, space given for streets and sidewalks, making sure that the spacing of the buildings is functional, making sure that the spacings and sizings of buildings are coherent
List any other important notes to yourself as you prepare for the charrette.
Making sure that there was enough space for people to actually live comfortable and safe lives was the basis of my work.

10. Allocation of Land
We are splitting the 100 acres into two areas, 50 acres for residential use and 50 acres for commercial use. It was decided that the town would have a recreation center and mall in the middle of the town with a shopping center, a food court, schools, clinics, and offices. Then, around the buildings there will be the residential area, which will contain all the 150 homes. There will be a mix of small and large apartments, duplexes and single family houses.

11. 100 Acres
100 Acres is about .156 square miles. Central Park is around square miles. Therefore 100 acres is about one-tenth of Central Park.

12. 110 Acres for Sale in St. Maries, Benewah County, Idaho

14. Public Park

15. Residential Building Types
150 Homes required
63 Smaller Apartments → 1-2 Bedrooms
7 Buildings (A)
3 floors each
3 Apartments on each floor
32 Larger Apartments → 3 Bedrooms
8 Buildings (C)
2 floors each
2 apartments on each floor
20 Duplexes (40 homes) (B)
2 homes in each
2 floors (1 single-family home on each)
15 Townhouses (D)

16. Recreational Center 1st Floor Arcade and Lounges 2nd Floor
Gym- 20 Treadmills, 10 Ellipticals, 10 Bikes, Weights, Benches, Mats
3rd Floor
2 Basketball courts
2 Tennis Courts
2 Volleyball courts
2 Badminton Courts
4th Floor
3 Dance Studios
3 Yoga Studios
2 Indoor Handball Courts
5th Floor
Spa
6th Floor
Pool
4 Locker Rooms

17. Mall 1st Floor Clinic Police Department Town Hall 2nd Floor Shops
3rd Floor
4th Floor
Cinema/Theater
5th Floor
Supermarkets
Restaurants
Food Court
6th Floor
Offices
7th Floor

18. Conclusion
Why is it important to recognize challenges and barriers during the charrette and then identify solutions?
Without recognizing problems, we would not be able to work functionally. If we did not recognize the issues in our work, then we would not have been able to build a working community.
Among the ideas or thoughts that you prepared for the charrette, were there any that were disregarded by the group? Why? Do you think it was the right decision?
Large shopping centers and other unnecessary facilities were disregarded, as well as the idea of having underground walkways. This is due to the limitation of space.
What is the value of using a charrette to investigate the feasibility and development of a building project? Describe specific advantages over a traditional approach in which the client meets with an architect and the architect develops the plan.
We are able to work in different ways and work with different roles and professions. We can share ideas that nobody else has thought of and build on each others ideas.
Identify and explain a potential drawback of the plan your team drafted.
We argued a lot and we came up with a lot of bad ideas that set us back, but our groups chemistry brought us through this problems and into an agreement.

19. bibliography