CHRISTOPHER ANDREWS ARCHITECT & TOWN PLANNER
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A VISION FOR THE BLUE MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS PROGRAM |
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Blue Mountain is a residential facility and school for at risk teenagers on a forty acre site in Calveras County California. The innovative cornerstone of the design and development of Blue Mountain is the integration of a group home and school with an ecologically sustainable, self sufficient physical plant, including an organic farm, on site power generation, surface and rain water harvest, and waste management. The
design and construction of the physical plant will form the initial core of the
environmental design curriculum of Blue Mountain’s environmental education
program. Students and staff will,
through active participation in this experiential education process both learn
and assist each other in learning conceptual and practical skills through the
construction of their own living and working environment.
Blue
Mountain will be designed and built with the full participation of its staff and
students as a part of its democratic model of administration.
The students and staff of Blue Mountain, assisted by the Blue Mountain
Design Team will identify their environmental needs and the means that they will
employ to meet them. Through
participation in the design and construction of their own home and workplace
they will be given the opportunity for empowerment and responsibility.
This empowerment and responsibility will be a model for essential life
skills—of vision, of implementation and of maintenance. |
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GO TO BLUE MOUNTAIN PART II: THE PROJECT LANGUAGE
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