1. ▸ Senior Planner in the Facilities Branch of QUT
▸ Urban Design Brief for Lamington Dve
▸ Problem before solution - Audit
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE
2. ▸ Placecheck
▸ Facebook – Lamington Dve
▸ Bring a hard copy of this checklist next week
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE
3. ▸ Memory Map of the Drive (1 A3 Panel)
▸ Site Plan (1 A3 Panel at Scale)
▸ Site Characteristics (1 or 2 A3 panels)
▸ Site Ideas (1 or 2 A3 panels)
▸ Conclusions (1 A3 panel)
▸ Recommendations (1 A3 panel).
UNEARTHING LAMINGTON DVE
4. The Garage, South Bank, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
Urban Design + Placemaking 101
Place Values
3 Place Qualities
More Information
Outcomes
Place Typology
Place process
Place roles
Toolkit - placemaking ideas
Links+ conclusions
OUR FOCUS
What+Why
How+Who
5. Anster St – Adelaide, SA, AUS
3. QUALITIES OF GOOD PLACES
1. Character
2. Diversity
3. Accessibility
4. Fit + function
5. Animators
6. Continuity + enclosure
7. Consistency + variety
8. Legibility
9. Structure
10. Features
11. Social Fabric
12. Sustainability
PlaceDrivers 13. Quality of the public realm
14. Safety
15. Creativity
16. Sensory pleasure
PlacePreference
NZ Urban Design Protocol
VIC Urban Design Charter
Councillor’s Guide to Urban Design
(Urban Initiatives, 2003).
6. ▸ PlaceCheck
▸ Page 10 The Place I – How can the streets and
other public spaces be made safer and more
pleasant for people on foot?
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE
7. 3.8 LEGIBILITY
Dean St, Albury, NSW, AUS
▸ Landmarks
▸ Focal points
▸ Views
▸ Clear routes
▸ Gateways
▸ Lighting
▸ Works of art and craft
▸ Signage and waymarkers
9. ▸ PlaceCheck
▸ Page 14 The Place – K How can we make the
place more welcoming and easier for people to
find their way around?
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE
11. 3.11 SOCIAL FABRIC
▸ Events, activities and cultural
infrastructure
▸ The quality of the public realm is a
means to an end not the end itself
▸ The places we like are not only
created, designed and delivered
- they also need to be maintained
St Patricks Day – George St, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
12. ▸ Well-used and well-loved
▸ Generally safe, comfortable, varied and
attractive
▸ Distinctive
▸ Variety, choice and fun
▸ Meet the needs and aspirations of users
▸ Engwicht Secret 1 – Make people feel at
home
▸ “You can create a house with money but
not a home”
South Bank, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
3.13 QUALITY OF THE PUBLIC REALM
13. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3. SENSORY PLEASURE
▸ Feed the senses
(Engwicht Secret 10)
▸ Delight the mind
People
Character
Enclosure
Legible
wAlkable
Sustainability
14. 3.15 CREATIVITY & INNOVATION
Mark Lane, Toowoomba, QLD, AUS
▸ Experiment and rewrite rules
▸ Be yourself - skilfully
▸ Harness new technology
▸ Visualise new futures
▸ Innovation
21. Rundle St Mall – Adelaide, SA, AUS
3 QUALITIES OF GOOD PLACES
▸ Engwicht Secret 3 – break the
rules
▸ Understand the rules but don’t be
bound by them
▸ “Learn the rules like a pro, so you
can break them like an
artist.”― Pablo Picasso
▸ Seek the inherent contradictions
▸ Everything we design should have
multiple or conflicting implications
22. Currie St, Nambour, QLD, AUS
PLACEMARK
Public realm: buildings and infrastructure support the place
Legibility: navigable and still interesting
WAlkable: people before private vehicles
Context: celebrate unique characteristics
Environment: sustain and enhance
Safety: help us understand risk to support safe behaviour
23. 2. VALUES
▸ Target Niches:
▸ Teenager
▸ International Student
▸ 8 year old
▸ 80 year old
▸ Prospective cafe
owner
24. Old Belvidere Prom - East Perth, WA, AUS
PULLING IT TOGETHER – SIX THINKING HATS
1. Process (blue)
2. What is working on the
Drive? (Yellow)
3. What isn’t? (black)
4. What if we could… (green)
5. How are you feeling? (red)
http://www.loosetooth.com/Vis
com/gf/6thinkinghats.htm
26. ▸ Drawing class
▸ What’s required?
▸ Week after – studio session on your assignments
▸ Conclusions and recommendations
NEXT WEEK
Editor's Notes
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The Nolli plan (in this instance Rome) is a useful urban design tool. It shows buildings in black and the spaces in between in white. Generally the more complex the pattern the more interesting the place. Think of the pattern of your nearest big box shopping centre - box in black surrounded by hectares of white parking!
What would the Nolli plan be of your favourite place?
Based on the discussions during the last six months I have modified the qualities.
The first 12 are drivers of good urban design/placemaking. The “optimisers” (not sure if this is the best word yet?) are variable based on personal preference. For example you and a teenager might have a different tolerance for safety (‘grittiness’)?
This is still a work in progress so tell me what you think?
UDC1FULL.pdf
Signage is placed last on the list for a reason.
I don’t know about you but I don’t feel comfortable in a new place unless I have a rough idea of orientation.
Not necessarily a key quality for visitors though? Participants have talked about having the time to get lost in cities like Venice – and then marvel at finding Piazza San Marco around the last corner!
This is the Rouse Hill Town Square – in which you can’t take any photos.
Remember Lynch’s seminal book on legibility from our university studies?
Developed through his mind map research – which you will do later.
Castle Hill provides a strong landmark in Townsville. If you look closely you can see the saint graffiti on the side.
Some street trees along this footpath would help, and maybe some public art on the wall? The bollards might be overkill?
UDC1FULL.pdf
Really good urban places benefit from features like the Southbank pool, Sydney Opera House, Guggenheim Museum, Eifel Tower or London Eye.
While these features do not necessarily represent ‘good’ urban design they make a significant contribution to attracting people.
The quality of the place might bring them back?
We talked about sense of place in the introduction.
No doubt Birdsville delivers good built form outcomes. However, people probably travel long distances for the event and the associated festival (and the thrill of getting there!).
I facilitated the stakeholder workshop for this street improvement on the Capricorn Coast. We ended up with the majority of the town there with plenty of great ideas and comments!
They would remind me about their issue/idea every time I went back!
We ere able to underground the powerlines, widen footpaths and provide pedestrian amenities. Unfortunately, they really wanted palms (which don’t provide a lot of shade).
Most of my sensory organs are overwhelmed at city markets!
Private open space?
Creativity in the design of the place and in it’s delivery.
The Creative Industries Precinct is Australia's first site dedicated to creative experimentation and commercial development in the creative industries. It provides a unique opportunity for designers, artists, researchers, educators and entrepreneurs to easily connect and collaborate with others to create new work, develop new ideas and grow the creative industries sector in Queensland.
Working closely with partners from government and industry, QUT is a national leader in the development of creative industries in Queensland and Australia and is fast becoming an internationally-networked hub of creative enterprise.
The $60 million Creative Industries Precinct boasts some of the most advanced digital facilities to support the creative work undertaken and some of the most exciting partners in identifying the next generation of ideas.
Creativity in the design of the place and in it’s delivery.
The Creative Industries Precinct is Australia's first site dedicated to creative experimentation and commercial development in the creative industries. It provides a unique opportunity for designers, artists, researchers, educators and entrepreneurs to easily connect and collaborate with others to create new work, develop new ideas and grow the creative industries sector in Queensland.
Working closely with partners from government and industry, QUT is a national leader in the development of creative industries in Queensland and Australia and is fast becoming an internationally-networked hub of creative enterprise.
The $60 million Creative Industries Precinct boasts some of the most advanced digital facilities to support the creative work undertaken and some of the most exciting partners in identifying the next generation of ideas.
UDC1FULL.pdf
The new Council building in Melbourne not only has high environmental credentials (e.g. the facade responds to the sun) it also reinforces a small, but quality, urban place.
Apparently the additional costs in the ‘healthy’ building were justified by the reduction costs due to sick leave.
UDC1FULL.pdf
Based on the discussions during the last six months I have modified the qualities.
The first 12 are drivers of good urban design/placemaking. The “optimisers” (not sure if this is the best word yet?) are variable based on personal preference. For example you and a teenager might have a different tolerance for safety (‘grittiness’)?
This is still a work in progress so tell me what you think?
Another movie you will eventually be able to see on www.placefocus.com
We acknowledge the need to engage with stakeholders- although we could be more effective?
Participatory design (design workshop, EbD, etc) is one example.
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
Wonderful Degraves Lane with Flinders St Station in the background.
A functioning laneway which changes during the day and night.