U_lectDure_1 With UD Process 1

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TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF

uRBaN DeSIGn

Eduardo F. Bober, Jr.Industry Lecturer


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According to your Understanding of Urban Design:

• UD is a design outside of the bldg/property.

• UD is complicated, a theoretical aspect

• UD prioritizes or harmonizes with nature

• UD is a about cities–hel s eo le to live an eas life

• UD is Urban Planning

• UD is planning the whole site, large area

• UD is architecture & a reflection of the buildings.

• UD is making the city more beautiful & attractive


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and their relationship to open spaces.


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concern with the distribution of building masses and the

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• containing two somewhat problematical words:

BA – suggests the characteristics of towns and cities

DEIG – refers to activities as sketching, planning,arranging and pattern making.

• Within the practice of urban design, URBAN has a wide andinclusive meaning embracing not only the city and town but also

the village and hamlet. DESIGN, rather than having a narrowlyaesthetic interpretation, is as much about effective problemsolving and/or the processes of delivering or organizingdevelopment.


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• F , urban design issimultaneously concerned with thedesign of urban space as an aesthetic

entity and as a behavioral setting.

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- Character

…the relationship betweendifferent buildings; the

relationship between buildings

and the streets,

squares, parks and other spaces

which make upthe public domain itself; the

- Continuity and Enclosure

- Quality of the Public Realm

- Ease of Movement

- Legibility

- Adaptability

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part of a village, town or city with

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movement and activitywhich are thereby established. In

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Urban design involves place-making - the creation of a

setting that imparts a sense of place to an area.

This process is achieved by establishing identifiable

neighborhoods, unique architecture, aesthetically pleasing

ublic laces and vistas identifiable landmarks and focal

points, and a human element established by compatible

scales of development and ongoing public stewardship.

Key elements of place-making include: lively commercial

centers, mixed-use development with ground-floor retail

uses, human-scale and context-sensitive design; safe and

attractive public areas; image-making; and decorative

elements in the public realm.


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• DESIGN, rather than having a

narrowly aesthetic interpretation, is as

much about effective problem solving

and/or the processes of delivering or

or anizin develo ment.

• Urban Design, like any other design

process, combines rational method

and inspiration. Design involves

planned change in the real world andinvolves envisaging the future and thelikely impact of change.


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Task1: DESIGN BRIEF (sets the agenda

for change and defines the design

problem)

Identify the existing conditions (‘where

we are’), and evaluate if it could be

improved (‘where we want to be’) –

design objectives

existing conditions; list opportunities

and challenges (issues and concerns)

Analysis should enable benchmarks to

be set, against measurableimprovements. Taken together, these

give a set of criteria which identifyneed.


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Task 2: DESIGN SOLUTION (setting newdesign scenarios – what if? – ‘try on’, see )

Test new scenarios against the designcriteria (vital part of the design process isnew ideas generation – creativity)

“Creativity is a decision, a deliberateintention, entailing lots of hard work”

Creative – come up with ideas (finding good

problems) Anal tical – to decide whether the ideas are ood or

not (finding good solutions)

Practical – to make the ideas functional (making thesolutions work)

The essence of creative work is to formulate theright vision – deciding firmly where to go. (Dr.Robert Sternberg, Successful Intelligence)

Design solutions are synthesis of severalscenarios and forms the basis for action


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Task 2: DESIGN SOLUTION (setting newdesign scenarios – what if? – ‘try on’,

see ) Design here is not a simple linear

process but an open-ended processwhere there is always room to introduceinnovations.

Design solution emerges from theera ve process w en mos o e

criteria have been met to some degree.

Design solutions are unique.

Design solutions are synthesis of severalscenarios and forms the basis for action


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Task 3: IMPLEMENTATION (sets the agenda for action and requires decision making process)


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AS A DECISION - MAKING PROCESS (someconsiderations)

Cities are product of myriad of particular decisions about the urban environment,taken individually or collectively and atvariety of scales. UD involves all types of people, e.g. local people, engineers,architects, etc.

Since it involves decisions about the

environment, UD is inevitably an economicand political, as well as aesthetic andfunctional process.

UD can take place in a variety of development contexts – public, private andcommunity, and in contexts that combine allthese three elements.


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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DESIGN PROCESS:

It is cyclic and open-ended, there is always

room for improvement.

Proposing design solutions leads to a

redefinition of the design problems.

Because criteria are often conflicting there

is no right or wrong solution but ratherso u ons a are more or ess or e e er.

Design requires us to be inventive in

creating new scenarios but rational in testing

them against criteria.

The analysis phase is an integral part of the

design process. To get the right answers we

need to pose the right questions.


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INITIAL TASKS FOR THE PRELIM ACTIVITY:

Start profiling or making the “briefs” of your chosen UD development area

(Strategic Urban Designs for the Areas in-between 2 LRT stations)

Gather data and information covering the UD development area

(city/barangay/LRT stations maps, statistics, photo docs, CLUP, etc)

Process data/information to define the UD problems and set the UD

development area objectives and initial UD criteria. UD should cover

spaces within the public realm.

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