OGDEN — About four dozen Weber State University design students made their way to the assigned meeting place last week, knowing they had a mere 48 hours between hearing their assignment and turning in projects with art boards and videos, based on ideas they hoped would crystallize in the hours in between.
It’s called a charette, an intense, limited-time effort to find solutions to a problem, usually one of an architectural nature.
Students arrived at the historic Ben Lomond Suites, in downtown Ogden, and learned their assignment was to plan a redesign of the lobby and restaurant. Each small team would need to come up with a plan that would respect the space’s original Italian Renaissance Revival style while addressing modern needs, such as wheelchair accessibility.
