outreach

The Free Design Clinic is pleased to announce its first partnership with West Coast Green 2009, the premiere conference on green design and innovation. The fdC is going to be sharing its mini park, showcasing reused materials and urban farming. We hope to see you there!

thanks to our generous hosts

We want to send a big thank you to HKS Architects and SNOB Wine Bar for opening up their spaces for our weekly meetings. We really appreciate having a big table and room for all of us to gather!

We're looking for a place the week of September 28th for an info meeting so if you have any ideas or want to open up your space to us, please leave a comment below!

project 2: Park(ing) Day

I'm not sure that any group has spent as much time as we have trying to determine the best location for our Park(ing) Day spot. We're an interesting case because we're essentially homeless - so where do we go? Amongst the architects? Downtown with the tourists? Mission with young folks like us?

We're hoping that our park can serve as a launch pad for our board to come together with a great design and show San Francisco what we're capable of. I don't want to reveal too much about the current design ideas but they incorporate - interesting ground covers, shade, graffiti art, design therapy and reused objects!

project 1: Glide Memorial

Things are moving forward with Glide. We're waiting on having them fill out our program questionaire. We hope to receive the finished ones from their managers some time next week!

project 1: Glide Memorial

Our first client meeting with the Glide staff went well. We met with the facility director and the health services director, key players in outlining the program we will need to address. We got answers to some essential programming questions and fielded our new style of personal questioning, designed by Ronak.

Terry, the facility director, was able to show us the original architectural drawings from the 1930’s construction of Glide Memorial Church. The blueprints were printed on canvas and although the sheets seemed fit to last for another hundred years the white lines were faded and hard to read in some areas. It was a wonderful experience getting to handle these old blueprints and they shed light on some important structural considerations for the design.

Since all of us work during the day, we brought some incentives for the Glide staff and ourselves in the form of delicious coffee cheesecake from Joanne! She was modest about her cooking skills, but the cheesecake was yummy.

Thanks to Ray Viotti at PPV & Associates for lending us his laser measurer.