I am excited to highlight one member of our design team each week.

I will kick it off with David Carrico of Carrico Illustration. David participated in our Design Workshop a few weeks ago and he will be a integral part of the design team as we move forward. David is a Design Architect and Illustrator with over 16 years of experience in architectural development, Landscape Architecture, urban design and traditional town planning. He is trained as a Landscape Architect with a BSLA from Purdue University. David’s work with architectural and planning clients has spanned the United States and includes extensive experience in international project development. His areas of experience include Urban infill, traditional parks and master planning of public space; Developing traditional town districts, commercial fabric and new community centers; Retail and mixed use development planning; Rebuilding and property re-development as well as green field sites; Resort and hospitality property development; Theme park development, specialty entertainment and themed events.

What makes David so vital to our design team is that he can actually bring an idea to life through a perspective drawing. During the 3 day Design Workshop, David was able to illustrate many of the ideas and thoughts of the design team. He tested these ideas with quick 5 to 10 minute sketches. Watch this high speed video of David in action:

David Carrico Drawing from Mylissa Horrocks on Vimeo.

In the coming weeks David will be working on some final color renderings to portray the Master Plan for the Habitat for Hope property.

Check out some examples of David’s finished work below.

Make no small plans, they have no magic to stir men’s blood.

I love this quote by famed architect/planner Daniel Burnham. He is most famous for his work at the 1893 Chicago’s World’s Fair and his design of the White City.

This quote was our goal last week at the Barn Raising Project Design Workshop. We brought in a very talented design team to help us create the best master plan possible for our site. It was a very intense and long design session for 3 straight days. We had great ideas brought about by the hard work of the design team. The Team consisted of:

• Marc Newman, PLACE Alliance
• Mauricio Castro, PLACE Alliance
• David Carrico, PLACE Alliance
• Christina Lathrop, Dix Lathrop and Associates
• Sean Simms, Sean K. Simms
• Michael Rogers, Fisher Arnold
• Richard Rucker
• Barry Yoakum, archimania
• Todd Walker, archimania

Check out some of the action from the workshop.

Before the pencils hit the paper, the team had to understand the site.

Richard Rucker, our wildlife biologist, explains to the design team about the importance of the natural habitat on site.

Mark Horrocks looks on, as the design team gets to work late into the night inside the HFH Barn.

David Carrico, professional illustrator/renderer begins to imagine what some of the spaces could look like.

Maurico Castro gives a presentation of the conceptual master plan to a few of the 80 people that showed up for the cookout.

Mark Newman and David Carrico discuss the shape of the Village Green.

This may not make any sense to you, but the design team somehow made sense of it!