Rationale / Objectives

Katipunan Avenue Commercial Strip is easily accessible to motorized vehicles but lacking to
pedestrians. The walkability of the sidewalks would include encountering obstacles such as
parked motorized vehicles either at the frontage or on the street. The main objective is to
integrate various type of users especially the pedestrians and bicyclists from UP DIliman in the
Katipunan Avenue Commercial Strip.
● Improve permeability of pedestrians and bicyclists aside from motorized vehicles
● Provide safety and security especially at night since some commercial
establishments are open until midnight and early morning

Design Approach

Main Concept Applied: NEW URBANISM

NEW URBANISM promotes the creation and restoration of diverse, walkable, compact, vibrant, mixed-
use communities composed of the same components as conventional development, but assembled in a
more integrated fashion, in the form of complete communities. These contain housing, work places,
shops, entertainment, schools, parks, and civic facilities essential to the daily lives of the residents, all
within easy walking distance of each other. New Urbanism promotes the increased use of trains and light
rail, instead of more highways and roads. Urban living is rapidly becoming the new hip and modern way to
live for people of all ages. Currently, there are over 4,000 New Urbanist projects planned or under
construction in the United States alone, half of which are in historic urban centers.

NEW URBANISM is the most important planning movement this century, and is about creating a better
future for us all. It is an international movement to reform the design of the built environment, and is about
raising our quality of life and standard of living by creating better places to live. New Urbanism is the
revival of our lost art of place-making, and is essentially a re-ordering of the built environment into the
form of complete cities, towns, villages, and neighborhoods - the way communities have been built for
centuries around the world. New Urbanism involves fixing and infilling cities, as well as the creation of
compact new towns and villages.
THE PRINCIPLES OF NEW URBANISM

The principles of New Urbanism can be applied increasingly to projects at the full range of scales
from a single building to an entire community.

1. Walkability

-Most things within a 10-minute walk of home and work

-Pedestrian friendly street design (buildings close to street; porches, windows & doors; tree-lined
streets; on street parking; hidden parking lots; garages in rear lane; narrow, slow speed streets)
-Pedestrian streets free of cars in special cases

2. Connectivity

-Interconnected street grid network disperses traffic & eases walking

-A hierarchy of narrow streets, boulevards, and alleys
-High quality pedestrian network and public realm makes walking pleasurable

3. Mixed-Use & Diversity

-A mix of shops, offices, apartments, and homes on site. Mixed-use within neighborhoods, within
blocks, and within buildings
-Diversity of people - of ages, income levels, cultures, and races

4. Mixed Housing

A range of types, sizes and prices in closer proximity

5. Quality Architecture & Urban Design

Emphasis on beauty, aesthetics, human comfort, and creating a sense of place; Special placement
of civic uses and sites within community. Human scale architecture & beautiful surroundings nourish
the human spirit

6. Traditional Neighborhood Structure

-Discernable center and edge

-Public space at center
-Importance of quality public realm; public open space designed as civic art
-Contains a range of uses and densities within 10-minute walk
-Transect planning: Highest densities at town center; progressively less dense towards the edge.
The transect is an analytical system that conceptualizes mutually reinforcing elements, creating a
series of specific natural habitats and/or urban lifestyle settings. The Transect integrates
environmental methodology for habitat assessment with zoning methodology for community design.
The professional boundary between the natural and man-made disappears, enabling
environmentalists to assess the design of the human habitat and the urbanists to support the viability
of nature. This urban-to-rural transect hierarchy has appropriate building and street types for each
area along the continuum.

7. Increased Density

-More buildings, residences, shops, and services closer together for ease of walking, to enable a
more efficient use of services and resources, and to create a more convenient, enjoyable place to
live.
-New Urbanism design principles are applied at the full range of densities from small towns, to large
cities

8. Smart Transportation

-A network of high-quality trains connecting cities, towns, and neighborhoods together

-Pedestrian-friendly design that encourages a greater use of bicycles, rollerblades, scooters, and
walking as daily transportation
 9. Sustainability

-Minimal environmental impact of development and its operations

-Eco-friendly technologies, respect for ecology and value of natural systems
-Energy efficiency
-Less use of finite fuels
-More local production
-More walking, less driving

10. Quality of Life

Taken together these add up to a high quality of life well worth living, and create places that enrich,
uplift, and inspire the human spirit.

Design Concept

INTEGRATION of Katipunan Commercial Strip to UP Diliman through FILTERED

PERMEABILITY

What is Filtered Permeability?

Filtered permeability is the concept, supported by organisations such as Sustrans, that networks
for walking and cycling should be more permeable than the road network for motor vehicles.
This, it is argued will encourage walking and cycling by giving them a more attractive
environment free from traffic and a time and convenience advantage over car driving.

PROPOSALS/ DESIGN ACTIONS

DESIGN PROBLEMS DESIGN SOLUTIONS DESIGN TRANSLATIONS

Main

SPRAWL / DISJOINTED INTEGRATION

WITH ADJACENT
DEVELOPMENTS

CARS / MOTORIZED FILTERED

VEHICLES PERMEABILITY
SAFETY AND SECURITY ● Additional Street
Lights especially
along the side of
Ateneo
● Separation of
Pedestrian Paths and
Vehicular roads by
placing planters as
barriers
● Improvement of
lighting in some foot
bridge
● CCTV for security

● Jeepney Stops
● Change in U-turns
(tentative)
● Change the design of
parking spaces
● Addition of entrances
to institutions such as
schools

WALKABILITY ● Wider sidewalks

● Rest stops for PWD
● Tactile paving for the
blind
● Additional vegetation
for shade
● Addition of bike lanes
and bike racks

PERMEABILITY

INDICATORS DESCRIPTION DESIGN SOLUTIONS

WALKABILITY (Concerned Walkability is a measure of how ● Additional Street

with pedestrian facilities) friendly an area is to walking. Lights
Walkability has health, ● Wider sidewalks
environmental, and economic ● Improvement of
benefits. Factors influencing
lighting in some foot
walkability include the presence
or absence and quality of bridge
footpaths, sidewalks or other ● CCTV for security
pedestrian rights-of-way, traffic ● Paving for the blind
and road conditions, land use ● Addition of Pedestrian
patterns, building accessibility, Fast Lanes
and safety, among others. ● Rest stops/benches
for PWD
 ● Tactile Paving for the
blind
● Bicycle lanes

CONNECTIVITY (Concerned ● Jeepney Stops

with road networks and ● Tricycle Terminals
vehicular traffic) ● Separation of Drop of
Lanes
● Strategic placement of
Stop lights and
pedestrian crossings
● Change in U-turns
(tentative)

QUALITY OF Promotion of healthy lifestyle ● Addition of trees and

ARCHITECTURE and environment through the vegetations
use of environment friendly ● Site furniture such as
material selection and benches street, street
inclusion lights design, etc.
● Pavement design
● Materials used
● Rainwater garden
( where plants

DESIGN ELEMENT DETAILS

Lighting ● Pedestrian Street Lights

○ Solar Powered Street Light
○ Type of Light: Metal Halide;
Pole luminaire
○ Location:
○ Height and Spacing:
■ Commercial Side:
■ Ateneo Side:
● Vehicular Street Light
○ Solar Powered
○ Type of Light: Metal Halide;
Double pole luminaire
○ Location: Central Planting Strip
along Katipunan Avenue
○ Height and Spacing: Retained

Customizable Modular Food Kiosk ● Steel framing with wood panels

 ● Modules: 1 x 1.2 meters
● Vendors can customize the wood
panels and signages themselves.
● Garbage bins nearby

Benches ● Location: In-between the sidewalk

planting strip and pedestrian lane
● Alternates with food kiosks along the
road

Pedestrian Overpass ● Uniform visual aesthetics

○ Plants along the railings
○ Street lamps
○ Roofing
● Type of plants:

Waiting Shed ● Dimensions: 3 x 9 meters

● Should not obstruct view to
commercial establishments
● White painted polished steel framing
with cantilevered transparent glass
roof

Bollards ● Location: At the edge of bike lane

Sidewalk planting strip ● Location:

● Width: 1.0 meter
● Type of Plant(s):
○ Trees:
■ Cynometra Ramiflora
(Balitbitan)

○ Shrubs
■ Hymenocallis littoralis
(Beach spider lily)
■ Eugenia oleina
(Buddhist pine)
■ Plumbago auriculata
(Blue Plumbago)

Intersection Islands ● Types of Plants:

○ Shrubs:
■ Eugenia oleina
(Buddhist pine)
■ Excoecaria
cochinchinensis
(Picara)
■ Carmona retusa
(Fukien tea)
■ Chlorophytum
comosum (Spider
 plant)
■ Arachis pintoi (Peanut
plant)

Bike Lanes ● Type of Paving:

● Width: 1.5 meters

Pedestrian Lane ● Type of Paving:

● Width: 3.0 meters

Center planting strip ● Types of Plants:

○ Trees:
■ Alstonia scholaris (dita)
○ Trees Spacing:
○ Shrubs:
■ Lantana camara
(lantana)
■ Ervatamia pandacaqui
(Pandacaqui)
■ Excoecaria
cochinchinensis
(Picara)

PEGS