Urban structure
- Arrangement of development
- Interrelationship
Integration
Functional efficiency
Environmental harmony- energy efficient and ecologically sensitive.
A sense of place
Commercial viability
3.1 The movement framework
- provides the maximum choice
- Suits a large suburban site will be quite different from a pocket site in the inner city.
- providing the right kinds of route
- Countless factors
- The first step is to define the walkable catchment area to local facilities
3.1.2 The walkable neighborhood
Design for ease of walking
Reinforce community
Movement framework should be the walking distances from facilities
Walking priority
3.1.3 Street network
Connect with the existing network
Maximum number of direct connections to main streets
Which links are most important to extend
Define the limits of a development site or regeneration area
Forging links
Reducing severance.
5.1 positive outdoor space
Contribute to the public domain
The character of
The space came first
‘Left-over’
5.1.1 Positive and negative space
With clear definition and enclosure.
The facilities it contains
5.1.2 Building lines and setbacks
Interact with the public realm
Face up
5.1.3 Enclosure
To foster a sense of urbanism
A positive contribution to the public realm
5.2.1 Active frontage
Get the rhythm right
Making frontages ‘active’ adds interest, life and vitality to the public realm
Reach out to the street
Presence of others
Lively interior activities
Vertical rhythm
Concealed
5.2.2richness and beauty
Pastiche
Townscape
Scale and rhythms of adjacent buildings
Materials
Local identity
Vertical rhythm in particular and avoid exposing blank walls.
5.3 building size and scale
Legibility
Microclimate
Norm
Key locations
‘Wrapping’
‘Stepping’ a large mass down
Relevant to pedestrian experience
5.3.2 Building depth
Shallow
Versatile form
Prominent
Incorporating prominent
The apex
Asymmetrical
5.3.4 Building width
Vertical rhythms
Frontage
Extensions
Light and ventilation
5.4 building for change
Change in space and over time
Occupants
5.4.1multi-use buildings
‘Re-mixed’
Inherently flexible
Fringes
‘Backlands’
Hybrid building
Vertical mixed-use: make it stack up
Combinations including high-intensity activities
5.4.2adaptability and re-use
Flexible buildings
Prospective
Detailed design of the building/street interface
Conversion: Reveal the history of a place
Giving them new uses
5.5 A thriving public realm
Streets Ahead
5.5.1 Social spaces
Focus activity areas
Build in versatility
Routes through space: enable people to pass directly from A to B
Stimulate the senses
Sounds, smells and touch under hand and foot
[Texture
Intrusive sounds
Aromas]
Strengthen local identity
Historical associations
Local pavers
Plant local
Give direction or identity
Wildlife
5.5.3 Street furniture
Panoply
‘Sheep-pen’
Visual logic
Inspection boxes are unavoidable hidden in the landscape or building edge
‘Special’ and ‘off-the-shelf’
Pastiche
Fit art to the place
Major contribution
5.5.4 Signage
Major clutter problem and can often be misleading
Minimize
Nodal points
Paving type; installing art in the floorscape
5.5.5 Lighting
Illuminate the scene
Care given to vehicle/pedestrian conflict points
Night - time activities
5.6 safety and sense of safety
Good visibility and effective lighting
User-friendly
Easy to overlook and oversee
5.6.1 Build in safety
Front onto the public realm
Minimizing exposed blank facades
Mixing uses
Locating parking in front of buildings
Foster a sense of ownership
Mutual protection
5.6.2crime prevention and the public realm
Fence or grill, design it as a sculpture
Undermine civic quality
Watch the main entrance closely
overlooked
4 making connections
What is meant by the Connections
Interaction
movement systems
Why the Connections are Important
(1) Linking up
(2) Movement choices
(3) A sense of place
(4) Safe routes for all
(5) The parking problem
(6) Better traffic management
4.1.1 the pedestrian environment
Pedestrians and cycle-friendly streets
‘Five C’ principles:
(1) Connections
(2) Convenience
(3) Convivial
(4) Comfortable
Obstructions
(5) Conspicuousness
segregated footpaths
subtle variations of material
positive, direct and barrier-free.
4.2.1 the cyclist environment
Design for convenient cycling
Passing parked cars
4.2.2 cycle lanes
Streets that are safe for cyclists
4.3.1 Make it convenient to catch the bus
4.4 streets and traffic
circulation of traffic
multi-functional spaces
4.4.1 street types
Define street types by capacity and character
role of the street in the urban realm
4.4.2 main routes
Make the route go through
4.4.3 streets as social places
Streets for everyone
creating a network of spaces
Inevitably
Places not roads
bland, uniform developments
4.4.4 tracking
Put the urban space first
Carriageway
Kerb
sight lines
induce
4.4.5 junctions
Keep it tight
Junctions
enclosed corners
cutback corners
4.4.6 traffic calming and pedestrian crossings
How much traffic can the street take?
4.6 utilities infrastructure
4.6.1 services routing
Make services subservient to layout
Routing
Road frontage
Co-ordinate design development with service providers
Put services underground in shared strips
4.6.2 equipment boxes
Hide the boxes
proliferation of service
unobtrusive
