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Design
Workshop’s 2006 internship charrette
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — Planning and design firm Design Workshop, Inc., is partnering with the Salt Lake Downtown Alliance, an affiliate of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, to host a student internship that will help assist with a downtown regional visioning effort. The 11-day charrette, which will run from May 31 through June 10, 2006, at the firm’s Salt Lake City office, is seeking 16 of the nation’s top urban design, planning, landscape architecture, environmental planning, real estate and business students to formulate strategies for transforming a 40-block section of downtown. The charrette and presentations to local government officials and the public will be followed by a 10-week internship in one of Design Workshop’s seven U.S. offices. Salt Lake City lies at the center of the country’s most explosive growth region. It features unrivaled proximity of urban environs with national forests and open lands. It has one of the country’s most ambitious city-centered mass transit programs, including commuter rail and light-rail service. The downtown is also the target of both a significant rail-yard redevelopment proposal and a $500 million retail-driven redevelopment. Numerous studies have been done on revitalization of downtown, and these will serve as resources that student interns can use to synthesize a single holistic vision. “We are really looking to inform this experience with a fairly broad-based platform,” says Chuck Ware, a principal with the firm’s Salt Lake office. These include insights into local economic conditions as well as Mayor Rocky Anderson’s vigorous environmental programs, for which he won a World Leadership Award in December. Ware says that part of the challenge will be the wide streets, huge blocks and closed malls typical of downtown, elements that make it challenging to create pedestrian interest. Design Workshop, Inc., brings special expertise to issues of urban revitalization, which it is currently helping achieve with redevelopment projects in Denver (Riverfront Park), Las Vegas (Union Park) and South Lake Tahoe, California (Park Avenue). Since 1985, Design Workshop’s internship program has attracted gifted scholars of landscape architecture, architecture, urban design and planning from all over the world. In the past, Design Workshop’s student charrettes have dealt with rail-yard conversions in Calgary, Alberta, and Phoenix, Arizona, and light-rail planning between Colorado ski areas and Denver. Last year’s internship crafted a three-part plan for creating gateways, mixed-use development and gathering spaces along a major highway corridor in South Lake Tahoe, California. The final plan (7MB) is available on Design Workshop’s website. Design Workshop attracted more than 200 applicants for the 2005 internship. Students interested in applying for the Salt Lake City charrette are encouraged review the application requirements listed on the on line application. Founded
in 1969, Design Workshop practices sustainable design and planning
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_____________________ Congratulations to our 2006 Summer Interns for a successful charrette! View the media coverage from the 2006 internship charrette. Download the Final Presentation from the Charrette. Our 2006 Summer Interns! Aaron Nelson Andrew O'Neill Bharati Karmarkar Bill Staley Douglas Woodruff Genevieve Buentello Greg Wolfgang Iping Yang Jennifer Dahm Natalia Zoldak Sandra Garay Shafee Jones-Wilson Shannon Cox Baker Shannon Forry Xiaoyu Zhang Charrette Location Summer Internship Students of LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING, URBAN DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS and REAL ESTATE are encouraged to apply. Email us with any questions. _____________________ View details from previous internships. 2005 Charrette in Lake Tahoe, Nevada 2004 Charrette in Calgary, Canada 2003 Charrette in Tempe, Arizona 2002 Charrette in Vail, Colorado _____________________
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