On-site Participatory Design Workshop
Design Workshop Model
Final Project Model
Completed Building
The partners of Centerbrook begin design by absorbing complex information about the precise needs of its clients to discover their requirements and their joys. The design process is one of inquiring and listening. A search for beauty of function and form underlies the effort. The partners see provision for the needs of people as integral to the beauty of a building.
Centerbrook has developed methods for including people in the design process. These can be as simple as one-to-one conferences or as elaborate as full scale design workshops involving committees and large groups of users. Centerbrook has even used live interactive television shows to involve whole urban populations in planning their cities.
The firm
usually presents options to clients for consideration at each step of design.
Client responses are reflected in revised schemes that are then reviewed for
further deliberation. A cycle of design and review continues until all agree
on a preferred direction. During this cycle a cost estimate is done of the
project for confirmation of the budget. It is revised as necessary to meet
the client's financial expectations.
On-site Participatory Design Workshop
Design Workshop Model
Final Project Model
Completed Building