OKASLA Annual Awards
2005 Analysis and Planning Category:
Honorable Mention: "THE CLASSEN-TEN-PENN PEACE PARK: A Path to Peace"
Center for Community Based Projects, Tom Schurch and Reid Coffman
Project Goals and Objectives:
The Peace Park project site encompasses five full city blocks and one mile in length. To reflect its broad nature and scale, overarching goals of the project are twofold. First, the project endeavors to realize the client’s vision for a celebratory “peace park” having local, regional, national, and international import. Second, the project intends to exercise an inclusive and thorough process that contributes to a revitalization of a deteriorated area of the historic inner city.
Objectives in the realization of these goals are as follows.
- To develop a program that is inclusive and involves a full constituency ranging from grassroots organizations to municipal government.
- To exercise a methodology that is appropriately complex for the project scope, scale, and importance.
- To understand and apply elements that have traditionally been a basis for celebrating peace, and to do so within a pedestrian scale and pedestrian-friendly environment.
- To incorporate elements of sustainability that are educational and reflective of the project’s location.
- To give full attention to natural and human cultural history of the site and its region.
- To develop a plan that can be implemented with regard to the Uniform Building Code, municipal codes, and the health, safety and welfare of anticipated users.
- To package and present the project relative to planning and design development, as well as the plan itself, in a highly professional manner that instills confidence in prospective funding entities.
