Showing posts with label Urban. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urban. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

UBD368 Urban Design



If there's an occupation that I'd enjoy doing that would be an Urban Designer. I love the idea of visualising environments and putting it down in written form.

At the beginning of the year, there was a lot of group work, which really tests a lot of people. But, you have to realise that the end result is that everybody has a vested interest in completing the assignment.

I heard a lot of stories about how this subject has been run in the past, but my attitude was that i have had a great appreciation to the development of spaces and places. Both in a private commercial realm but also for the creation of public spaces.

As we moved into the middle of first semester, things felt like that the time spent was very effortless, until crunch time with assignments. Best rule: If you know what's coming up, be prepared.

The final assessment was the best as it was a solo project. It was a breeze as I knew what I was going to work on.



Saturday, November 13, 2010

Scales of Planning

I was just thinking about scales in the city, just like in Architecture and in maps, you have scales.

Urban: Building scale. Deals with urban design and human scale.

District: Block scale. Larger areas, but still within human scale.

Municipal: District scale. Made up of blocks, this creates groups to form districts.

Regional Planning: Municipal scale. Made up of Municipalities.