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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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focus on thesiting and design of civic buildings –
and their relationship to open spaces.
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concern with the distribution of building masses and the
space between buildings.
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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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• also a key proponentin her book: The Death and Life ofGreat American Cities arguing that thecity could never be a work of art
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• F , urban design issimultaneously concerned with thedesign of urban space as an aesthetic
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- Ease of Movement
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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.