Urban Design Flashcards
Creative thinking:
draw on knowledge, experience, precedent, memory & imagination
Collaboration:
- form teams, nurture relationships, share and coordinate skills and expertise
- lead through discussion and example
- acknowledge limitations
- team thinking, debate generative resistance
Integrated Design:
- coordinated and coherent approach, connected response, aware participants, appropriate results
- project integration environmental integration, social integration
Ways to approach spacial design
Take advantage of unique characteristics of a place while also acknowledging the site’s disadvantages
Layering information and inspiration in spatial design:
- natural
- cultural
- practical
- pattern (established spatial forms or ideas)
- client ‘drivers’ (goals)
Spatial design: Things to consider in regards to ecological/ natural
- hydrology and drainage
- ecology/ soils/ vegetation patterns
Spatial design: Things to consider in regards to narrative/ cultural
- what does place mean to people in relation to the past and present
- how it was used in past, stories. Could influence design.
- Specific imagery
- community spirit
Spatial design: Things to consider in regards to functionality / practicality
Connections & circulation - movement to and from & within site Visual connections - retain, frame or enhance Adjacent land use - better connect or buffer? Services/ Setbacks/ Planning Requirements
Spatial design: Things to consider in regards to patterns/ forms/ planning precedents
- apply established spatial forms or ideas; adapt to conditions
(linear, nodal, clustered, gridded, repetitive, adjacent, symmetrical, multi-lateral, random)
Spatial design: Things to consider in regards to client drivers:
- clients requirements
- yield, financial return, staging, brand
NZ Urban design protocol includes:
- context
- character (heritage, identity)
- choice (diversity)
- connections
- creativity
- custodianship (environmentally sustainable, safe and healthy)
- collaboration
Urban design process:
Research
- collect
- observe
- record
- analyse
- evaluate
Ideas+ Conceptual Framework
- synthesize
- create
Design
Environmental Parameters
- the site + surroundings
- natural env.
- social env.
- technological env.
- built env.
- the client env.
The design team is informed by:
- the real world
- memory + experience
- the virtual world
- imagination
Creativity quote that is nice
Creativity is maximised when you’re fully aware of context and are able to use your experience, skill, and talent to discover meaningful connections that provide a framework for design
