innovate@boisestate Copyright (c) 2013 Boise State University All rights reserved. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/innovate Recent documents in innovate@boisestate en-us Tue, 14 May 2013 08:45:32 PDT 3600 Local Elements http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/innovate/5 http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/innovate/5 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:13:00 PDT The mission of Local Elements is to create an eco-urban park to harbor Boise’s local movement and need for recreational community space. This project is an integrated park that includes a cultural and artistic marketplace, an outdoor amphitheater, greenhouses and multipurpose educational facilities. A key aspect of Local Elements is to create a socio-economic space that enables sustainable development, through both its design and function. This will be accomplished through a collaborative plan including: a new construction method made from completely recycled building materials, geothermal heating, xeriscaping, rainwater recycling and solar power. Local Elements will stimulate the economy and steer Boise toward a connected local community focus. Local Elements is a valuable development project for the City of Boise. People of all ages will enjoy this addition to downtown, as it will remain a prominent place of interaction and use for generations to come.

]]> Nick Brown et al. Boise Exploration Project http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/innovate/4 http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/innovate/4 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:12:58 PDT To being the innovate challenge, we were presented with five undeveloped properties that we needed to turn into something innovative, filled the needs of the community, was feasible, and grounded in evidence. Our wish was to build something so that Downtown Boise could become a place that truly fostered a sense of community, and culture, while emphasizing education by bringing together everyone from adults to children, students to businessmen, and urban to suburban. This vision was formalized through the construction of our idea: to build a large, interactive Boise City Museum. This museum would take visitors on an interactive journey through the world, from dinosaurs, to Idaho history, to space exploration. We wanted visitors to experience education, to not only learn about history in a classroom; therefore, the Boise City Museum would offer an IMAX experience as well as a public-access planetarium. These innovations would not only allow potential partners like Boise State University, Microsoft, and Hewlett Packard the chance to have a foothold in the community, but also they would inspire young students through sponsoring an exhibit. However, our vision did not stop with the Boise City Museum, we wanted to foster all of the arts, so we added an amphitheatre that could house different plays, local orchestras and support other arts. Next to the amphitheatre, a shopping center called The Marketplace is set; it is a place that will be supportive to small, local businesses and restaurants. This place will have beautiful architecture to provide a breathtaking first glimpse of Boise when exiting the connector. Other innovative aspects to our design was the addition of pedestrian bridges to encourage walking and bicycling; also a parking garage, to help address some of the space issues business people downtown experience. Our design, the Boise Exploration Project, is a large scale, innovative project designed around Boise’s strengths as a community.

]]> Dominique Elliott et al. Urban-Outdoor Nirvana http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/innovate/3 http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/innovate/3 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:12:57 PDT To make Boise more livable, we will create an Urban Outdoor Nirvana, the city within our city. This will increase livability by offering alternative transportation, building a cultural community, and promoting entrepreneurship. Our alternative transportation area will be a center for people to rent cars, bikes, access the city's busing system, and enable citizens to help the environment while reducing congestion in the downtown area. To build culture and community, we will develop a unique mid-sized concert house to attract the most innovative and cutting-edge artists to our city. We will also create an artistically themed garden filled with local art creations, which will be a place for people to gather and enjoy Boise's unique art culture. To enhance entrepreneurship opportunities and community, our urban-outdoor village will include a children's museum, a volunteer center, and building space dedicated to local and start-up programs. A plaza in the center of the village will allow for community festivals and markets.

]]> Tessa DeWhitt et al. Zenabuki Village http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/innovate/2 http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/innovate/2 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:12:55 PDT Our team has two main wishes for this project. First, we want to create a dynamic, interactive, residential community for students and young professionals. Secondly, we seek to give Boise State a positive presence downtown. Both of these goals will be realized with the creation of Zenabuki Village, a mixed-use development project unlike anything that Boise has ever seen. The false division between campus and city will finally fade away, and both will be revitalized in the process.

]]> Nicole Crosby et al. Overscore Development http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/innovate/1 http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/innovate/1 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:12:54 PDT Overscore Development and the 3D Plaza initiative focus on one goal: To ignite Boise's creative economy and engage citizens in making our city a destination for innovation.

Boise’s greatest asset is the creativity of its citizens. Although recent years have seen the economy struggling locally and nationally, Boise entrepreneurs have continued to take risks and launch new and innovative businesses. Overscore Development set out to increase contact between this spirit of creative business and the Boise population at large. We accomplished this by developing the concept of a mixed-use structure that makes use of inventive retail space, open city government, and an urban Boise State University extension. These elements work together to create a third space where Boise citizens can share their lives in the area between commercial and community space.

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