Dino-Mite! - Rural Studio

Welcome back!

If you have been keeping up with us, it has not been long since our last blog update but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy! We have had a few reviews, dressed up as dinosaurs, met with new consultants, won a costume contest, worked on the design of a park, played some kickball, and most importantly, had FUN doing it all.

We’ve been absolutely loving our time in Hale County so far and can’t wait to keep living in, designing for, and caring about this community for however long we are here.

But for now, this is what we’ve been working on.

Ext-roar-dinary work

Since we last spoke we’ve been firing on all cylinders pushing our early design work into new territories. At the annual Halloween Reviews, the team presented a couple of design schemes, each of which looked at ways we can design a new space for children’s play, a beautiful trail to walk on, and ways we can allow the park to be more easily accessible to the public.

The team also been slowly exploring ideas of how we can reuse some existing materials on site in new ways: new backstops for baseball, objects to play on, or even ways to make portable restrooms more appealing.

A sight for saur eyes

A week after Halloween Reviews, the team was able to meet with the Greensboro parks and recreation board to continue building the relationship between the community and the project. During this meeting, we talked about some requirements for the new park and learned a lot about what existing infrastructure needs to stay and what can go.

Later in the week, the team was given the once in the lifetime opportunity to work with two amazing consultants all the way from New York. Mary Margaret Jones, a landscape architect, and Billie Tsien, an architect and long time friend of the Studio. After a few days of workshopping and drawing together, the team is in a great position to keep the project moving forward.