Urban Design Theories

URBAN DESIGN CITY FOR PEOPLE PRESENTED TO: DR. ABEER EL SHATER ARC. CLARA ASHRAF ARC. ANNE ABDEL SAYED

PRESENTED BY: FARIDA SAIF 1802127 YASMIN WAEL 1814091 YOUSSEF KHALED 1809083 ZIAD SALEH 1814178 VERINA IBRAHIM 1803872

MENNA SALEH 1811742 LUJINA YASSER 1801009 HASSAN HESHAM 1815799 SALMA NADER 1805929 LAMA TAWFIK 1802342

TABLE OF CONTENT PROJECT BACKGROUND SITE ANALYSIS PROBLEM ANALYSIS VISION CONCEPT ZONING

P roject B ackground

BACKGROUND

ABOUT THE SITE

PROJECT REQUIRMENTS

Today, urban planning choices are made on drawings boards, and there is minimal time between decision and realization. The rapid development of new forms of transport, as well as the frequently huge scale of building projects, provide new issues. The traditional understanding of scale and proportions has steadily faded, resulting in modern urban places that are frequently designed on a scale that is far from what people feel to be meaningful and pleasant. - Gehl, J. (2010). Cities for people. Island Press.

Location: Salah Salem St, Al Golf, Nasr City, Cairo Governorate.

Our site includes; the Meraki complex; restaurants and cafes, a food court (Rafael), an Air force House, Le Ciel, Mosque Al Saiyda Safiya, a public garden, and residential buildings

Reimagining the location 50 years from today, assessing the issues, and developing solutions that will aid in the preservation of a sustainable urban fabric helps create a community that is economically, environmentally, and socially healthy and resilient.

S ite A nalysis SITE VISIT

CLIMATE ANALYSIS

Building Heights

ROAD NETWORK

Road Network

Ground Floor

1 Floor

Climatic Analysis

Climatic Analysis

2 Floors

Parks ,openspaces ,green areas

3 Floors

4 Floors

,green areas Secondary Road

Tertiary Road Commercial

Commercial

5 Floors

Military

Military

START POINT END POINT

Parks ,openspaces

Resedential

Resedential

6 Floors

Primary Road

Mixed use

Mixed use

7+ Floors

TOUR 1: 25 MIN TOUR 2: 8 MIN TOUR 3: 18 MIN TOUR 4: 20 MIN TOUR 5: 15 MIN

ROAD HIERARCHY

Road Hierarchy LANDMARKS 3 meter

15 meter

20 meter

Road Hierarchy Building Conditions

BUILDING QUALITY

Building Conditions

3 meter

15 meter

1 out of 5

20 meter

2 out of 5

1 out of 5

2 out of 5

7 meter

7 meter 6.5 meter

3 out of 5

3 out of 5

6.5 meter

4 out of 5

5 out of 5

4 out of 5

5 out of 5

S ite A nalysis BUILDING HEIGHTS

BUILDING USES

SOCIAL ENVIROMENT

Building Conditions

Building C

9:00 AM -2:00 PM

AGE 12-14 (4-6 PM) AGE 15-25 (2-10 PM) AGE 26-40 (8-11 AM / 2-7 PM) AGE 41+ (8 AM- 2PM)

DEMOGRAPHICS

COMMUNITY

NASR CITY GENDER

49.3%

47.3%

POPULATION

GENDER POPULATION

139,856

50.7%

MALES

661,907

52.1%

70,938

MALES FEMALES

Building Conditions FEMALES

MEN

WOMEN

LOCATION Urban

100% 100%

344,809 68,918

Urban

661,907

8:00 PM - 2:00 AM

9:00 AM -2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 8:00 PM

8:00 PM

Rural

Suburban

0% 0%

317,098

Suburban

0%

Rural

0%

HELIOPLIS GENDER

49.3% 49.3%

POPULATION

GENDER POPULATION

139,856

50.7% 50.7%

MALES

139,856

MALES FEMALES FEMALES

MEN

70,938

70,938 68,918 68,918

WOMEN

LOCATION

100% 100%

Urban

Rural

Suburban

Urban

0% 0%

Suburban

0% 0%

Rural

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 8:00 PM

8:00 PM - 2:00 AM

HIGH SOCIAL CLASS

HIGH SOCIAL CLASS

HIGH SOCIAL CLASS

LOW SOCIAL CLASS

LOW SOCIAL CLASS

LOW SOCIAL CLASS

S ite A nalysis SOLID AND VOID

LEGIBILITY

Conclusion (Problem statement) Existing Landmarks EXISITING LANDMARKS Needed NEEDEDLandmarks LANDMARKS Edges EDGES Paths Existing Landmarks Needed Landmarks Edges Paths Nodes Districts

PATHS

Nodes

NODES

Districts DISTRICTS

After studying the site, we determined that: the site is walkable, but the functions are separated, and the site’s extended edge makes the journey longer than necessary. The walking experience lacks amusement, leading to the lack of pedestrians. The site includes two focal points of activities and the long distance between them creates a dead zone, which lacks activities, visuals, and sensual interaction.

P roblem A nalysis 1

No space for forming habits and routine and social interaction (inclusivity)

4

7

10

The garden is relatively small in size which doesn’t accommodate

Segregated facilities

No life between buildings

the community

2

5

8

The lack of shading devices leads to a hard pedestrian experience

Residents aren’t visually connected with the gardens

Long edges

3

6

9

Garden restriction (not totally public)

The Garden is not multifunctional (lacks activities), doesn’t suit

The walking experience lacks amusement

different human needs

V ision

“CITY FOR PEOPLE” VISINARY

WALKING CYCLING

SOCIABLE

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PRIVATE CARS

INCLUSIVE

PRIVATE CARS

COMMUNITY DRIVEN

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CYCLING WALKING

Projects for public making placemakingplus.com

Creating a pedestrian-friendly utopia through the design of 15-minute cities. architonic.com

Creating a pedestrian-friendly utopia through the design of 15-minute cities. architonic.com

C oncept Our concept aims to build an urban walkthrough that is based on a scale adapted to human senses and potentials through creating dense city structures, short walking distances, beautiful courses of space, high degree of mixed-use, active ground floors, distinguished architecture, and carefully designed details and all on a human scale.

Football Field Materials : Grass or synthetic tartan Landscape : at edges energetic trees and seats for spectators outside of the court

Photography Materials :materials will highlight a focal point Landscape :wide spaces, with suitable lighting and clear background

3 5

10 1

Street Performance Materials : stone Landscape :wide spaces,long evergreen provide shade Enlarge the existing park for more visual connection with the neighbourhood, allowing people to participate in activities which is inclusive to all ages, by adding square at the intersection between both residential and mixed use districts, This square will also function as a tool which allows different age groups to peacefully perform their activities; Activities on the upper part of park [skating -football court - pets] will include the younger age group and the lower part of park will include another age group that usually perform their activities together [Families-kids].

Concluding our design process we created a park that accommodates different age groups throughout the day allowing each of them to perform their activities though distributing the activities according to shared interests.

8 Skate Park Materials : concrete Landscape : at edges energetic trees and provide shade

4 2 9

Pets park CYCLING AND PEDESTRIAN ROAD Materials : asphalt Landscape : long evergreen provides shade and shadow

Materials : grass and gravel Landscape :wide spaces, soft edges, water elements,dog games

Z oning

LEGEND

1.6%

RESIDENTIAL HOTEL

SALAH S

ALEM

GREEN AREA PARKING COMMERCIAL MIXED USE (RESIDENTIAL + COMMERCIAL MOSQUE MAJOR VEHICLE ROAD MINOR VEHICLE ROAD PEDESTRIAN PEDESTRIAN + VEHICLE

15%

11.5%

43%

17% E M AH

A T D

R E YS

L egibility LEGEND

NODE NEW LANDMARK EXISTING LANDMARK Super block model will be applied in the mixed use part, following Ildefons Cerda (the urban planner of barcelona) Ideology.

The legibility of the node will be increased if the corner is chamfered (Bentley, I. (2015). Responsive Environments: A manual for designers. Architectural Press is an imprint of Routledge.).

“Whereas the street signals movement: “please move on,” psychologically the square signals staying. Whereas movement space says “go, go, go,” the square says: “stop and see what’s happening here.” Both feet and eyes have left an indelible mark on urban planning history. The basic building blocks of urban architecture are movement space: the street, and experience space: the square”-Gehl.

Squares and plazas as spatial shape can correspondingly be related to the eye and its potential to grasp events within a radius of 100 meters (Gehl, J. (2010). Cities for people. Island Press).