2016 Memorial Park Update

What is it about that Richmond's history that draws so many people from around the country here?

Click here to read the Report on the Design Charrette for the Community Proposal for a Shockoe Bottom Memorial Park. 

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Richmond, VA May 31 - June 4, 2016:  Two professors and three graduate students in history, graphic design and architecture from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Center for Design Engagement spent a week in Richmond to facilitate a design charrette - essentially a series of public meetings and designing sessions - to expand on the concepts developed in the 2015 Community Proposal for Shockoe Bottom. The end product gives us further visual representation of the vision for the nine-acre memorial park. Media coverage of the charrette week, including this piece by Catherine Komp for Ideastations' Virginia Currents radio story: http://ideastations.org/radio/news/community-work-shapes-ideas-shockoe-bottom-memorial-park


Site Plan of the resulting charrette's design concepts.

Aerial View of the resulting charrette's design concepts.