We recently received an inquiry from Ralph Kurtz, AIA. He writes: How is your charrette process different from the CRS “squatters” process? Or is it simply old wine in new bottles?
Perhaps not old wine, but rather the latest vintage with complexities reflective of the current environment. The planning environment that produced the […]

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Charrettes can be used for any scale of planning or design project. They have been used for projects ranging from regional planning to building design.
For large projects that have distinct geographic and/or political boundaries it is common to hold a single regional charrette or workshop to work on shared values or vision elements, followed […]

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Charrettes are often confused with visioning sessions. The purpose of vision development is to establish a description of a future state based on shared community values that acts as a guide for the project decision-making process. The visioning process can include one or a number of efforts including educational lectures, workshops, neighborhood walks, and preference […]

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Answer: Feasibility TestingOne of the biggest differences between the NCI charrette and other processes is the extra time taken in the plan development charrette sub-phase to test and investigate design concepts in order to bring them to a level at which they can be approved, engineered, and built.
Intensive, collaborative planning processes that last less than […]

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