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The document discusses the urban design process and how to document a city. It begins by outlining the goals of urban design and factors that contribute to good urban design, such as unity, protection from elements, and ease of orientation. It then describes the urban design process, which includes preparing a design brief, surveying the area through historical analysis and visual studies, analyzing data collected, synthesizing a design, evaluating it, and implementing the design. The process aims to create attractive, well-functioning communities by properly allocating land uses, transportation, and preserving natural features.

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Ap2 - Documenting The City

The document discusses the urban design process and how to document a city. It begins by outlining the goals of urban design and factors that contribute to good urban design, such as unity, protection from elements, and ease of orientation. It then describes the urban design process, which includes preparing a design brief, surveying the area through historical analysis and visual studies, analyzing data collected, synthesizing a design, evaluating it, and implementing the design. The process aims to create attractive, well-functioning communities by properly allocating land uses, transportation, and preserving natural features.

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THE URBAN DESIGN PROCESS:

DOCUMENTING THE CITY


THE SYSTEM OF DESIGN & PROCESS OF DOCUMENTATION &
PRESENTATION
SUBMITTED BY:

PUNO, ERIKA W.
ARCHI 3B
URBAN DESIGN
The goal of urban design is “to design and build urban developments
which are both structurally and functionally sound while at the
same time giving pleasure to those who see the development.”
Urban design shares with its sister art, architecture, these three qualities
of utility, durability and the ability to bring to the user a sense of well-
being and emotional satisfaction.
GOOD URBAN DESIGN
a. Unity and Coherence
b. Minimum conflict between vehicles and pedestrians
c. Protection from rain, noise, wind and so on
d. Ease of orientation
e. Compatibility of land uses
f. Availability of places to rest, observe, and meet
g. Creation of a sense of security and pleasantness
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

I. PREPARING A DESIGN a. VISUAL SURVEY


b. IDENTIFICATION OF HARD AND
BRIEF SOFT AREAS
II. SURVEY c. FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
a. HISTORICAL ANALYSIS I. SYNTHESIS
b. TOWNSCAPE ANALYSIS
c. VISUAL STUDY II. EVALUATION
III. ANALYSIS III. IMPLEMENTATION
a. GATHERING OF BASIC
INFORMATION
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

I. PREPARING A DESIGN BRIEF


- once basic planning requirements are established, a design concept should be
established for the site.
The design brief should consider the following main subject areas:
o means of access by road and by other modes of transport
o the relationship of the pedestrian, cyclist and the car
o safety in the public realm
o quality of design in street and public square including notes on achieving
vitality and permeability
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

I. PREPARING A DESIGN BRIEF


o the identity and legibility of place
o features of sustainable development
o open space and landscape strategy
- these development framework and site development guidance is to encourage and
guide development.
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

II. SURVEY
Survey techniques depend upon the nature and scale of the project.
- Techniques used in moderate- to large-scale projects:
a. HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
b. TOWNSCAPE ANALYSIS
c. VISUAL STUDY
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

II. SURVEY
a. HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Understanding the genius loci or the spirit of the place provides the key to
charting the direction for future development. Peeling back the layers of history
which encrust the modern city reveals the reasons for its present form and
function.
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

II. SURVEY
b. TOWNSCAPE ANALYSIS
There are 3 main aspects of townscape analysis:
1. Legibility of the urban structure
2. Ways in which people perceive, understand & react to the environment.
It concerns those qualities of a place which give it an immediate identity, one
which is quickly perceived or grasped by its users.
3. Permeability of the environment The choice it represents to the user.
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

II. SURVEY
c. VISUAL STUDY
Studies of urban space, the treatment of facades, pavement, roofline, street
sculpture, and an analysis of the complexity of visual detail which distinguishes
one place from another.
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

III. ANALYSIS
a. GATHERING OF BASIC INFORMATION
- suitability of the topography
- land area required for the new units
- adequacy of public utilities
- amount of traffic generated and necessary roadways to accommodate it
- parking space requirements
- additional requirements for schools, parks, and playgrounds
- relevant zoning and subdivision ordinance
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

III. ANALYSIS
b. VISUAL SURVEY
Analysis of urban space is acquired though responses by the “faculty of sight”, as
the environment is apprehended “almost entirely through vision”.
c. IDENTIFICATION OF HARD AND SOFT AREAS
d. FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS

IV. SYNTHESIS
V. EVALUATION
VI. IMPLEMENTATION
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

o Commercial and residential uses oriented toward the water & designed to create
varied public spaces can add visual interest to the waterfront.
o Best way to understand its workings is to dissect its parts.
o Body of the community is composed of its land-use areas, i.e., various types of
residential, commercial, & cultural properties. Size & disposition set the general
outline or shape.
o The skeleton to which they relate is the natural topography with its geologic
structure, which determines the basic 3-dimensional form and much of its
landscape character
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

o Veins and arteries are the circulation ways, including streets, transit routes,
pedestrian walks, and perhaps canals
o Lifeblood is provided by the commerce and industry
o Energy and communications serve as the nerves
o Mind and spirit is symbolized by the institutions – the schools, libraries,
museums, and churches
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

THE TOTAL ASPECT IS ATTRACTIVE ONLY IF EACH OF THE


FEATURES ARE WELL FORMED TO SERVE ITS PURPOSE,
AND THE COMPOSITE BODY IS HEALTHY AND THRIVING.
a. CONSIDER THE TYPE OF COMMUNITY YOU WOULD
LIKE YOURS TO BE.
b. ANALYZE EACH COMMUNITY COMPONENT
c. THINK IN TERMS OF SYSTEMS
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

a. CONSIDER THE TYPE OF COMMUNITY YOU WOULD LIKE


YOURS TO BE.
o What is its purpose?
o Does it serve the purpose well?
• Is it a trade center?
• Does it have industrial & manufacturing districts as well as commercial,
residential, & recreation areas?
• Are they awkwardly jumbled together and full of frictions?
• Are they well related & interconnected, yet separated by natural buffers
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

b. ANALYZE EACH COMMUNITY COMPONENT


o Are all the parts in good working order?
o Are they well planned, efficient, and attractive?
• Do the shopping and business areas have safe and pleasant access?
• Are the schools designed as neighborhood focal points and gathering places?
• Are they combined with recreation areas and open space as neighborhood
centers?
• Are churches, libraries, and auditoriums so located as to serve as neighborhood
centers
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

c. THINK IN TERMS OF SYSTEMS


o Community services that are to be jointly administered, operated, or
maintained should be coordinated in the planning stage
o Lines of movement or transmission, being continuous by nature, are best
planned as integral segments of a comprehensive system.
• Streets, walks, and trails have been laid out by developers of adjacent properties
without interconnection.
• Park, recreation, and open space lands have been often acquired on a spotty basis,
rather than as well-considered and integrated units of a comprehensive plan.
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

Beauty is the perceived harmonious relationship of all elements in any


object, place, or action.
Most attractive communities are those in which everything seems to be
working well together. This is largely a matter of the allocation and
distribution of the land use areas for housing, schools, shopping, and
so on, in relation to each other, the circulation routes, and the
topographical features.
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

o Provide suitable areas for all required land uses.


• Best possible size and shape to express and accommodate the community's workable
program.
• Soil suitability/land capability.
o Leave greenbelt areas in between
• Canals, highways, railroads, or transmission corridors often serve well as separators
between various community districts.
o Preplan the transportation routes
• Compatible routes for all types of traffic movement must be devised to serve them
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

o Group the compatible uses


• Homes, schools, and convenience centers form a complementary grouping, as do
parks, zoos, and botanical gardens.
• Business offices and shopping malls are mutually supportive, as are universities,
hospitals, and cultural centers.
o Fit the size to the use requirements
• Each use has its own general order of magnitude that it seems most desirable
o Preserve the topographical features.
• Protect lakes and lagoons with borders of green parklands
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

PEOPLE, STREETS AND BUILDINGS


Old tradition , man has built his structures along public streets which
have afforded access, address, and some degree of protection. But
conditions have changed, public streets have become massive
thoroughfares for often high-speed, traffic movement and bringing in
pollution and danger.
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

PEOPLE, STREETS AND BUILDINGS


• Face homes away from the street
• Design dwelling clusters around courts or
culs-de-sac
• Plan isolated living compounds
• Develop traffic free residential
neighborhoods
• Plan entire communities as residential parks.
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

The livability, amenity and character of residential areas are greatly enhanced by
trees, more so than by any other single element.
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS: DOCUMENTING THE
CITY

In areas where houses have no front yards, a sense of nature can be provided by
planting in the sidewalk area.
REFERENCES
https://www.scribd.com/presentation/365729860/Module-7-the-Urban-
Design-Process-Documenting-the-City

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