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3307 S. College Ave., Suite 200, Fort Collins, CO 80525
970 226 5000 • FAX 970 226 5125
January 29, 1999
TO: Various People
FROM: Jon Prouty
RE: Landings Bay (previously Courtyard Commons) --
General Remarks
Our goal in this project is to create an aesthetically attractive townhouse /
condominium project with buildings that have attractive elevations and which
buildings surround a courtyard.
The purpose of the courtyard is to aesthetically, and to some extent, functionally
merge the practical and design considerations of vehicle ways, pedestrian ways,
parking, landscaping and hardscaping. If this is done successfully, then instead
of the ugliness of curbs, gutter, asphalt, and a sea of concrete, we have a plaza -
courtyard area that contributes to a quality of life, provides for pedestrians and
informal social gathering and, in a very unintrusive way, the needs for vehicular
traffic.
Only 25% of the garages will access from the courtyard, considerably reducing
garage fronts as a significant design factor in the courtyard streetscape.
One challenge is trying to imagine what an innovative concept or project will look
like. Elevation views and plan views simply don't present an accurate, real -life
view. We constructed a scale model of a portion of the courtyard with buildings
and garages on both sides, then photographed it, and used the photograph of
this actual scale model as the basis for the enclosed color rendering. This is not
an artist's conception, but rather, an accurate real -life perspective representation
of what this courtyard and these buildings will look like.
I am sharing this with all of you who have worked on this project with me so you
can more accurately get a feel for the aesthetics, the ambience, and the quality
of life of the unique project we are creating here.
As always, I value your ideas and suggestions. Thanks.
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