NCARB is hosting a competition for Creative Integration of Practice and Education. We are currently working on submitting boards and a write-up of the 2010 Atelier: The Republic Street Initiative. We have been working on two layout boards and meeting with the marking group at CR architecture+design to help convey the message of the project and to best represent it. We have been focusing on the hierarchy of the board, the color scheme, and the tag line. We are trying to get this submittal completed in order to dive into the 2011 Atelier Project.
This year we are working on an adaptive re-use of 1427/1429 Race Street and an infill on 1505 Race Street Corner. We have been researching the building and the surrounding area to get an overview of the site. The building is an 1850’s German Protestant Church located in Over-the-Rhine. It is one block from our apartment building. The main struggle with the project is the lack of information. We are not permitted to enter the build, therefore we have a limited amount of measurements and images of the inside of the buildings. We have been contacting local people mainly through twitter and other blogs to help gain as much information about the former church as possible. Architects from CR architecture+design joined us on a site visit to get a feel for the site and to help generate ideas. The building is in much better condition for being abandoned. 
The lack of information as proposed an interesting problem, but one thing we have been working on is taking as many measurements as possible, we have the site plan and a third of the each elevation measured. We are going to be estimating the rest of the elevations from pictures and using brick heights to fill in the missing information. The CAGIS has been helpful in getting an idea of the basic site and surrounding information.
Outside of the office we had a great opportunity to have a sit down lunch with Van Jones. The sit down included residents, the Coalition for the Homeless, Over-the-Rhine activists, and Miami University Center for Community Engagement members. Van is an environmental and social activist. We got to hear his opinions on where the government should be focusing, how small grassroots groups can help, and the future of those groups. It was a motivation to see someone who started in small grassroots organization to working with the Obama administration. 
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