Katoomba Charrette – Chapter 4: Charrette Adaptation to Urban Design
Later, a United States architectural and planning firm, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. (DPZ), an architecture and planning firm based in Miami, Florida, from 1980 adapted this methodology to produce high quality urban design solutions within a short period of time.
The project engagement method is posited on the presumption that students best learn by active creation under the guidance of a learned ‘professor’ to problem solve a real life dilemmas, so in context.
Charrette a contemporary use of the term ‘design charrette’ is to describe an intense time limited design session in which a multi-disciplinary team brainstorms the alternatives and charts the broad strokes of a design.
The ‘design charrette’ generates engagement and an attitude of involvement develops an experience in and an appreciation of, the team approach broadens individual perspectives dramatically shifts the knowledge domain towards the applied dramatically increases individual confidence develops timeline awareness generates spontaneity, reacting to ‘intuition’ or ‘feelings’ generates reflection/action/reflection as a cycle.