Not many people opt to take on City Council and ask them to break the mold in which they operate. Furthermore, it's generally not done by three grad school students with no money in their pockets asking to take over city owned property. Philip Auchettl, Jason Grauten and David Loewenstein did just that and it kickstarted their architecture design and development company, RAD Lab. Four years later, what began as a school project, now has them designing, developing and operating a multitude of projects around the country, such as custom shipping container homes, a beer garden park, homeless shelter pods and most notably, their San Diego based Quartyard. This urban development of an unused city block was transformed into a dog park, coffee shop, restaurant, concert stage and all around community hang out, which is also where we recorded this episode.
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