Contemporary Approaches Urban Design

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week 4 urban tissue analysis The city's Genius Loci is distinguished by a specific pattern and collaboration of streets, plots, and buildings. Urban tissues can be identified as a unique region with a distinct unit of development. Throughout the process of generating a city's place identity, socially structured elements must be accumulated, contrasted, and generated from historical origins using local materials.

character as a composite

The initial step is to examine the street network in order to recognise the variable in addition to the land use colour coding in order to determine the granularity of the city or location.

The combined impact of receiving a unique collection of characters

The image/sense of a place is not restricted to its physical shape. Built Form Figure 4.1

Character area

Perceptual response

Physical character

Character as a composite

Then, based on typologies, materials, modern vs. ancient buildings, building height, and strong vs. weak frontages, refinements are required.

Land Use Activities

Pattern of movement

Aspect of form and character

Busy Quite

Furthermore, it is necessary to identify the link across the characteristics of an area as uses, parks, landmarks, barier, or even boundaries.

Natural Environment and climaate The Ground surface Vegetation Temperature Regime Temperature

Figure 4.2

the structure view

resolution

[time frame] The Process -Development Aspect -Natural environment -pattern of movement -Land use -Built form -Perceptual Response

It must be in a reasonable manner of conceptualising to translate into resolution every element with complexity such as modern dwelling, parkside, industrial park, and so on.

Aspect of Form and Character

aspects

Figure 4.4 time frame

Built Form Figure 4.3

Analytical Review

Identity Character Areas

Legend High Density Residential Low Density Residential Education

High Density Commercial Low Density Commercial Transport Corridor

Private Green Space Public Park Historical Building

The Site

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