The Collaborative’s recent design charrette, Planning for the Next Century of Service, brought over 50 people together to brainstorm about ideas for the Camden campus of The Neighborhood Center. The Collaborative hosted the charrette as part of AIA Philadelphia’s Design on the Delaware conference on November 9.
The Collaborative’s recent design charrette, Planning for the Next Century of Service, brought over 50 people together to brainstorm about ideas for the Camden campus of The Neighborhood Center. The Collaborative hosted the charrette as part of AIA Philadelphia’s Design on the Delaware conference on November 9.
Fresh from a visioning session about the century-old urban outreach center’s next steps, the staff and board of The Neighborhood Center came with lots of new ideas for addressing the educational, wellness, and spiritual needs of their South Camden community.
“[This charrette] is as much about putting these ideas together in a coherent way as making use of a beautiful campus and grounds,” said volunteer Janice Woodcock in her introduction to the charrette teams.
The Center’s multi-acre campus includes a former deaconess house and three newer buildings, surrounded by a generous amount of open space. Currently, a busy soup kitchen operates in the gym, the only large space on the campus. There is no common reception or meeting space and no easy way to pass between buildings. A parking lot occupies the heart of the campus.
Paramount among the Center’s goals is to improve its open space, using a new nutrition and gardening program as a launching point. Another big need was a dedicated space for the center’s busy soup kitchen to free up the existing gym for more youth programming.
These major strokes alone would open up new possibilities for programs— and for the people the Center serves, “We want people to come to this center and find out something about themselves that they never knew before... an interest, a desire.”
The four charrette teams presented their concepts to a review panel at the end of a full day of design.
Red team @ the center—consolidate the spaces in the middle of the site, link them with an atrium, and boost outdoor programming at the perimeter
Blue team the front porch—a canopied courtyard and building addition to create a shared entrance to the Center
Yellow team the spiral— intertwining new landscape elements and buildings that can be added incrementally
Green team welcome everyone—a new building and shared pathway at the heart of the campus that creates public and private open space
The teams’ concepts for renewing The Neighborhood Center will be presented more fully in a forthcoming report. In the meantime, take a look at the work in progress in our photos from the day.
PARTICIPANTS
PANEL Ken Kelley, Program Manager, Campbell Soup Krista Briglia, Executive Vice President, Community Impact, United Way of Camden County Rose McManus Coleman, Foundation Vice President, Virtua Rev. Dr. Rich Hendrickson, Coordinator of Stewardship & Development, Greater New Jersey Conference of the United Methodist Church Maarten Pesch, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, WRT Sharon Vogel, Executive Director, Neighborhood Center, Inc. Moderator Paul Marcus, Principal, Marcus Reinvestment Strategies and Board of Directors, Community Design Collaborative
NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNER Neighborhood Center, Inc. Sharon Vogel, Executive Director Joanna King, Assistant Director
PROJECT TEAM Woodcock Design Inc. Janice Woodcock, AIA, LEED AP
Continuum Architecture & Design, PC Continuum Environments, LLC Judy Robinson, AIA, LEED AP
Ian Smith Design Group Ian Smith, AIA, LEED AP
ThinkGreen LLC Peter Johnson, RLA, ASLA Anna Lavinia Schmitz, ASLA Thomas Johnston, RLA, ASLA
Bruce E. Brooks & Associates Joseph Matje, PE, LEED AP
Janice Cutillo DeFranco
Yellow Team Judy Robinson, Leader Joanna King Roger Klein James Gourley Plato Marinakos Sylvia Palms Barbara Sprague Jack Thalheimer
Red Team Janice DeFranco, Leader Tess Holley Valerie Cooke Jack Althouse Mathew Davis Jeffrey Kirchner Michelle Robinson Jerome Taylor William Wolfe
Green Team Ian Smith, Leader Andrea Gingrich Marvis Mills Sr. Alice Berman Heather Coyne Robin Kohles John Mateyko Anna Schmitz Ann Wheaton
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The Collaborative’s recent design charrette, Planning for the Next Century of Service, brought over 50 people together to brainstorm about ideas for the Camden campus of The Neighborhood Center. The Collaborative hosted the charrette as part of AIA Philadelphia’s Design on the Delaware conference on November 9.
Fresh from a visioning session about the century-old urban outreach center’s next steps, the staff and board of The Neighborhood Center came with lots of new ideas for addressing the educational, wellness, and spiritual needs of their South Camden community.
“[This charrette] is as much about putting these ideas together in a coherent way as making use of a beautiful campus and grounds,” said volunteer Janice Woodcock in her introduction to the charrette teams.
The Center’s multi-acre campus includes a former deaconess house and three newer buildings, surrounded by a generous amount of open space. Currently, a busy soup kitchen operates in the gym, the only large space on the campus. There is no common reception or meeting space and no easy way to pass between buildings. A parking lot occupies the heart of the campus.
Paramount among the Center’s goals is to improve its open space, using a new nutrition and gardening program as a launching point. Another big need was a dedicated space for the center’s busy soup kitchen to free up the existing gym for more youth programming.
These major strokes alone would open up new possibilities for programs— and for the people the Center serves, “We want people to come to this center and find out something about themselves that they never knew before... an interest, a desire.”
The four charrette teams presented their concepts to a review panel at the end of a full day of design.
Red team @ the center—consolidate the spaces in the middle of the site, link them with an atrium, and boost outdoor programming at the perimeter
Blue team the front porch—a canopied courtyard and building addition to create a shared entrance to the Center
Yellow team the spiral— intertwining new landscape elements and buildings that can be added incrementally
Green team welcome everyone—a new building and shared pathway at the heart of the campus that creates public and private open space
The teams’ concepts for renewing The Neighborhood Center will be presented more fully in a forthcoming report. In the meantime, take a look at the work in progress in our photos from the day.
PARTICIPANTS
PANEL Ken Kelley, Program Manager, Campbell Soup Krista Briglia, Executive Vice President, Community Impact, United Way of Camden County Rose McManus Coleman, Foundation Vice President, Virtua Rev. Dr. Rich Hendrickson, Coordinator of Stewardship & Development, Greater New Jersey Conference of the United Methodist Church Maarten Pesch, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, WRT Sharon Vogel, Executive Director, Neighborhood Center, Inc. Moderator Paul Marcus, Principal, Marcus Reinvestment Strategies and Board of Directors, Community Design Collaborative
NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNER Neighborhood Center, Inc. Sharon Vogel, Executive Director Joanna King, Assistant Director
PROJECT TEAM Woodcock Design Inc. Janice Woodcock, AIA, LEED AP
Continuum Architecture & Design, PC Continuum Environments, LLC Judy Robinson, AIA, LEED AP
Ian Smith Design Group Ian Smith, AIA, LEED AP
ThinkGreen LLC Peter Johnson, RLA, ASLA Anna Lavinia Schmitz, ASLA Thomas Johnston, RLA, ASLA
Bruce E. Brooks & Associates Joseph Matje, PE, LEED AP
Janice Cutillo DeFranco
CHARRETTE RESOURCE ADVISORS Chuck Davies, AICP, Principal, CityPlan LLC Dan Ertz, Director of Nutrition and Wellness, Neighborhood Center, Inc. Paul Groundwater, President, Sales Growth Consulting, LLC and Board of Directors, Neighborhood Center, Inc. Peter Johnson, RLA, ASLA, Landscape Architect, Principal, ThinkGreen LLC Thomas Johnston, RLA, ASLA, Landscape Architect, Principal, ThinkGreen LLC Joe Matje, PE, LEED AP, Mechanical Engineer, Bruce E. Brooks & Associates Casbah Salaam, Director, Create the Image Community and Housing Development, Inc. Sharon Vogel, Executive Director, Neighborhood Center, Inc. John Wallace, Community Developer, Create the Image Community Housing Development, Inc.
CHARRETTE TEAMS Blue Team Janice Woodcock, Leader Mike Landis Veronica Fossie Julie Disston Peter Dunham Richard Lyon Laura Mark Charlie Oropallo Mark ThompsonYellow Team Judy Robinson, Leader Joanna King Roger Klein James Gourley Plato Marinakos Sylvia Palms Barbara Sprague Jack Thalheimer
Red Team Janice DeFranco, Leader Tess Holley Valerie Cooke Jack Althouse Mathew Davis Jeffrey Kirchner Michelle Robinson Jerome Taylor William Wolfe
Green Team Ian Smith, Leader Andrea Gingrich Marvis Mills Sr. Alice Berman Heather Coyne Robin Kohles John Mateyko Anna Schmitz Ann Wheaton
