A charrette (pronounced [shuh-ret], often Anglicized to charette and sometimes called a design charrette) consists of an intense period of design activity.
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It was productive! We had the help of a Cornell graduate, iMaria, from Guatemala. She specializes in Vetivers, which are plants used for erosion control (and can completely replace using a retaining wall - wow!).
She whipped up most of our sketches in ten minutes while we discussed ideas and feasibility. If it wasn't for her, these would have taken hours (more that 6, heh). The hardest part for me was thinking about our drawings in a realistic sense, as in, these abstract sketches are going to have to come to life.
Here's a little taste of what we came up with...
Now it's time to finalize the design, figure out how we'll get all these materials... and BUILD.
Wow, that looks so easy in text.
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