Ride the Storm: Navigating Through Unstable Periods / Katerina Rudko (Belka G...
Check list urban housing
1. Check list urban housing
1. physical/spatial
a. prepared update base map
b. Study the Role and relationships of the site/area to its strategic context (identity,
relation to adjacent areas and linkages to wider areas).
1) Character appraisal…..
a. historical development
b. settlement pattern
c. cultural characteristics and heritage
2) Contiguous area…….
a. Land use
b. Views and skyline elevations
3) Street
a. street layout/ pattern
b. connectivity
c. accessibility
d. hierarchy or size
e. contraction material
f. junction
g. Traffic flow/movement….
i. Types of transportation
ii. Transport network
iii. node and linkage of transportation
h. pedestrian safety
i. parking configurations
4) Land form and nature
a. evolution and change in urban space on morphological changes
b. topography
c. Vegetation cover (trees, plants etc…)
d. landscape features site or vista
e. surface water sources and groundwater sources
5) Building structure and spaces
a. Layout and form of space
b. Public and private interface
c. Layout and form of building including height, scale and massing
d. Age and building structure
e. Density
f. Building typology
g. Parking
6) Open space
a. Types of open space
b. Function and character of open space
c. Activity
d. Amenity, facility and variations
7) Blocks
2. a. Types of blocks
b. Hierarchy and shape
c. Proportion
d. Pattern (grain and texture)
8) Housing
a. Housing typology…..
i. Row
ii. Detached
iii. Semidetached and others…..
b. Housing function
i. Pure residence
ii. Mixed and other activity residence
c. Housing condition
i. Good:- private toilet/ shower, private water tap, wall(plastered stone/
Brick/HCB), floor (tile, cement screed) Kitchen- private
ii. Fair:- shower, toilet, water tap, wall(HCB/brick/stone), kitchen
iii. Bad:- no toilet/ shower, public tap, wall( mud brick, mud and wood,
any temporary structure)
d. Housing unit area (M2 )
e. Plot area (M2 )
9) Path, node, edge, landmarks