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Friday, December 18, 2009
This Is GOOD Design: An Accessible Treehouse
Meet Amy Leathers, senior associate at Lord, Aeck & Sargent right here in Atlanta. Amy designed this treehouse for Camp Twin Lakes. Located around the corner from Atlanta in Rutledge, Georgia, every summer Camp Twin Lakes welcomes kids with special illnesses, disabilities, and other challenges that would exclude them from partaking in the celebrated summer ritual elsewhere.
Let me tell you this- with solar panels, a rooftop garden and a rather glamorous spiral staircase, this isn't your dad's treehouse...
This blog entry marks the beginning of a new series on High Gloss Blue called 'This is GOOD Design' that seeks to highlight projects making the world a better place, specifically those taking place right here around the Southeast. For a while I have been looking for a way to incorporate projects and ideas motivated by humanity, instead of capitalism and function, rather than just form. As inherent problems solvers, designers hold a great ability to impact the world through the betterment of the world's built environment.
Whether its low income housing, green design, universal design or just a dude coming up with an easier, better way to build a ramp to a front door-I will work to recognize and share the projects here every Friday. I welcome and encourage (did I say implore yet?) your involvement and submissions. These projects don't get written up in Architecture Digest, but the people behind them deserve all the credit we, designers and design lovers, have to give.
Full story:
http://highglossblue.blogspot.com/2009/12/this-is-good-design-accessible.html
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