Architects Without Borders

UPDATE: We collected 100+ raincoats that were distributed in Guatemala City and well received.  Thank you everyone for your contributions on a very short notice.

Although the immediate need is for disaster relief, there will be a need for technical assistance in the near future. This will include damage assessment, planning and rebuilding. An Architects Without Borders - Seattle board member, Paul Wu, will be meeting with the Deputy Council from the Chinese Emabassy on Monday to talk further about [...]

 
The 72-Hour Challenge began on Thursday evening at 8p with a few brief presentations from a the coordinators and few Seattle Homeless Advocate non-profit groups: Share, Wheel and Women in Black, along with members of Tent Cities 3 & 4. They expressed needs for dealing with their garbage as well as human waste along with also [...]

AWB-Seattle has been approached by the Banda Aceh Peace Resource Center to provide concept design for a visitors center and to assist with masterplanning for a peace park to commemorate the 2005 peace agreement between separatists and the Indonesian government and to provide a memorial for victims of the Tsunami and [...]

When: Saturday March 15th 2008, 10am-1pm
Habitat will provide lunch
RSVP to Rachael: rachaelm@bergerpartnership.com

Sick of Drawing?!
Then join a team of AWB’ers for the Design Build Challenge - Displaced Populations Seattle 2008. A 3-day design build challenge where the team chooses a local organization (from a given contact list) with a community design need. The team will collaborate with the organization, prepare a design [...]

SR 99 Aurora Bridge Suicide Prevention Fence
Design Charette
When
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

This is the Community Workshop prior to the Design Charrette to hear and voice concerns about the prevention fence. The Charrette will be held mid-February. Stay tuned for more details.  For more information visit www.aurorabridgefence.com.

The Habitat for Humanity - Westway planting date has been postponed - primarily due to the fact that there will be a bit more scope than just planting. So, there will be a mini-charette March 15th to work on ideas to make more of a statement at the entry - perhaps signage, or a trellis [...]