Masterplanning & Urban Design (L3) Flashcards
What is a masterplan?
Overarching document in planning that defines spatial layout to structure land use and development
Masterplanning is a vision and strategy for what?
Design framework for land uses, Green and grey infrastructure
What is the difference between a design guide and a design code?
Code is a regulatory framework and illustrative document with detailed design parameters (often produced at outline and trumps current policy)
Eg: land uses, character areas, typologies, landscaping, materials.
A guide is not mandatory to follow but outlines deliverables, principles, standards and opportunities to follow on a projects scope.
What is a garden city?
Satttelite communities -Ebenezer Howard architect. 20th century eg Letchworth GC. Towns separate by greenbelt.
How is a large urban extension defined?
“Planned expansion of a city to deliver sustainable development”
Gets more than 4 yes from OPP to SOS
INFA delivery
S106 negotiation
Name some placemaking features
An approach prioritising people over infrastructure.
Landscaping and POS
Marker buildings on key corners/vistas
Entrance features
SUDs designs (balancing pond)
What is a plot profitability and how do you use one?
Tool to determine most profitable units in the portfolio. Sales value vs build cost and land use: best utilisation of space on a site.
The profitability shows: BC-Price-Land Value : % efficiency and profit margin.
What is good placemaking?
A multi phased approach to planning, design and management of public spaces that promotes wellbeing. Includes architecture, sustainability and layout.
What is the purpose of a parameter plan?
Established out outline consents
Are the parameters for development
Rm must accord to them
Eg. story heights, land uses
What is the difference between strategic and project masterplanning?
All master plans require infa, planning, consultation etc.
Strategic is about regeneration. Large scale.
Project is site focussed and has definable boundaries.
What is regeneration?
Large scale work to promote economic growth and quality of life. Eg. The Towns fund.
What is the Towns fund?
£3.6 billion to invest in levelling up regions. Investment to support economic and sustainable growth.
What does NPPF paragraph 130 and 134 state about good design?
130: development focus on quality.
134: If a development is not well designed, it should be refused.
Building beautiful commission & prioritising beauty in 2021 NOPF changes.
What is GREEN vs GREY infastructure?
Green = natural systems (forest, wetlands, sustainable SUDs, green corridors)
Grey = structures (dams, pipes, treatment plants, permeable paving, lifecycle costs)
Define a consortium scheme
Mixed use development intended to create opportunity for a group of partners to develop land.
What is ‘secured bY design’?
A police initiative. Supports designing out crime on schemes.
Eg: the layout of buildings/rear access/parking/lighting.
What is the BUILDING FOR LIFE design code?
Homes England have created a Design code (12th edition) for public spaces and neighbourhoods. Ie Biodiversity and Active Travel.
The document sets standards for:
Home/street
Neighbourhood integration
Creation of a place
What character areas were you bound by on Wintringham?
Informal urban edge : > dense / terraces / consistent frontages.
Rural edge: <dense/detached housing/staggered frontages.
Can you outline some literature on the Government’s Design guidance?
The NATIONAL DESIGN GUIDE.
Is a PPG for beautiful, enduring and successful places. Emphasis on places not buildings. To guide planning system.
X10 characteristics.
Context/built form/movement/POS/lifespan/identity/homes/resources/nature/uses.
When was Building Better Building Beautiful Comission’s final report?
- “Living with beauty”
What is the Stirling Prize?
RIBA’s top award for design/architecture.
2022: New Library, Magdalen College, Cambridge.
What is Urban Design?
The art of designing cities.
Mass scale architecture to design spaces and places.
Emphasises human psychology in placemaking.
How do you design public spaces to a high quality?
Think about movement and flow. Eh shared surfaces around a pos area.
What is a serviced site?
Sure prepared for development: access to public highway, utility connections
How did the narrow parcel in Huntingdonshire affect back to back distances?
HDC’s policy was minimum 21 meters
What solutions did you use to increase density at Linmere?
2.5 story units that utilised more vertical space with smaller footprints.
Link detached units to incorporate on plot parking.
Efficient road design.
Using FOGS to access parking courts
Does a current policy trump a design code or opp persmission?
No, policy at time of consent is king.
What is a landscape led design approach?
Over delivering POS, landscaping and maximising green infa opportunitie.
In Huntingdon, how did you reflect a similar built form and materiality to create the fluid urban design solution between parcels?
Architecturally relating to Bellways design.
Brick work/window alignment/balcony design/3 storeys.
