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Architecture Firm Business Plan by Slidesgo

The document outlines the urban design process, including preparing a design phase by establishing concepts and considerations, surveying techniques like historical analysis and townscape analysis, gathering basic site information in the analysis phase, and synthesizing and implementing a plan. It emphasizes fitting land uses to the environment, preserving natural features, and planning transportation and community services as integrated systems. The goal is creating attractive, harmonious communities where residents, streets, buildings, and nature comfortably coexist.

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Architecture Firm Business Plan by Slidesgo

The document outlines the urban design process, including preparing a design phase by establishing concepts and considerations, surveying techniques like historical analysis and townscape analysis, gathering basic site information in the analysis phase, and synthesizing and implementing a plan. It emphasizes fitting land uses to the environment, preserving natural features, and planning transportation and community services as integrated systems. The goal is creating attractive, harmonious communities where residents, streets, buildings, and nature comfortably coexist.

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THE URBAN DESIGN

PROCESS:
DOCUMENTING THE CITY
PRESENTED BY:
CARDORA
DERRAMAS
PAQUIN
I. PREPARING A DESIGN PHASE

- 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:
 means of access by road and by other modes of
transport
 the relationship of the pedestrian, cyclist and the car.
 safety in the public realm
I. PREPARING A DESIGN PHASE

 quality of design in street and public square including


 notes on achieving vitality and permeability
 the identity and legibility of place
 features of sustainable development
 open space and landscape strategy
- these development framework and site development
guidance is to encourage and guide development.
II. SURVEY
- Survey techniques depend upon the nature and scale of the
project.
- Techniques used in moderate- to large-scale projects:
 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.
II. SURVEY
 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.
II. SURVEY

 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.
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


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
• Commercial and residential uses oriented toward the water &
designed to create varied public spaces can add visual interest to
the waterfront.
• Best way to understand its workings is to dissect its parts.
• 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.
• 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
• Veins and arteries are the circulation ways, including
streets, transit routes, pedestrian walks, and perhaps
canals
• Lifeblood is provided by the commerce and industry
• Energy and communications serve as the nerves
• Mind and spirit is symbolized by the institutions – the
schools, libraries, museums, and churches
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.

 What is its purpose?

 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
c. Think in terms of systems

 Community services that are to be jointly administered, operated,

or maintained should be coordinated in the planning stage

 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.
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.
 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.

 Leave greenbelt areas in between

• Canals, highways, railroads, or transmission corridors often serve well as


separators between various community districts.

 Preplan the transportation routes

• Compatible routes for all types of traffic movement must be devised to


serve them
 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.

 Fit the size to the use requirements

• Each use has its own general order of magnitude that it seems most
desirable

 Preserve the topographical features.

• Protect lakes and lagoons with borders of green parklands


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.
 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.
In areas where
houses have no front
yards, a sense of
nature can be
provided by planting
in the sidewalk area.

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