CURRENT EVENTS:
RESHAPING ROCHESTER SERIES!
Join us for 7 exciting events centering around this year's theme: "Celebrate the City!"
ROCCITY DESIGN WEEK
A week to celebrate the buildings we live in, the streets we walk on, the objects we use, the images we look at, and art that inspires us.
May 12-19, 2012
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IN THE GALLERY:
Come check out our exciting new gallery exhibit! On display now.
CHARRETTES ARE A GREAT INVESTMENT!
Brighton Awarded $1,565,000 million for Monroe Ave. Green Street Project
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CONTRIBUTIONS CAN NOW BE MADE THROUGH UNITED WAY!
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The Rochester Regional Community Design Center (RRCDC) is
a non-profit organization promoting healthy, sustainable communities by encouraging quality design of the built environment and thoughtful use of built and natural resources. We do this by providing technical assistance and access to educational and training opportunities that increase awareness about the built environment, the impact of design and the importance of good urban planning. By actively engaging through partnerships in city and regional initiatives that include guiding communities in creating vision plans and encouraging community involvement in planning and developing processes, RRCDC plays a critical role as an advocate for good design in the Greater Rochester Region.Who we are:
The RRCDC is a group of design professionals, planners and citizens with a shared interest in defining, promoting and helping to implement design excellence and sustainability in the built environment.
The RRCDC, along with volunteer design professionals, will help you organize, plan, and facilitate your community design charrette. The RRCDC offers charrette techniques that emulate the excellence of nationally recognized models. We offer the Design Center Studio Space for planning and organizing meetings. We will produce drawings and reports to help communities bring their visions for their built environment to reality. See examples of our work here.
What is a charrette? Information from the National Charrette Institute.
The RRCDC design gallery opened at the Hungerford Complex in January, 2006. This gallery displays the works of urban designers, architects, landscape architects, planners, artists, craftsmen and other design professionals who enhance our communities through their contributions to the built environment and to the public realm.
Design professionals are available for consultation to individuals, community groups and municipalities. We also offer graphic presentations about principles of good urban design to professional organizations, community groups, and zoning boards. See examples of our work here.
The RRCDC offers our Urban Design Resource Library which includes books and magazines about urban design, photographs, and a collection of Municipal Planning Documents.
This space is available for neighborhood meetings relating to urban design issues.
The RRCDC is open from 9am-5pm Monday through Friday. If you would like to visit our Design Gallery or Research Library please call in advance.
Further Online Resources available:
See a list of smart growth web sites