Location Review

Final Sketch Up Model

The site location resides in a perfect spot for a park as the surrounding area consists of mainly housing buildings as showcased below. There are a couple of shops and restaurants nearby with the most notable being the large Tesco building which lays walking distance away from the site. This means thegeneral area doesn’t necessarily lack anything important with most necessities being close for the local community. Nearby is YMCA Romford which provides the community with gym facilities, children’s and youth clubs, a restaurant as well as a housing unit. Renovating the park into a more welcoming space for activities will therefore influence the YMCA to use it more which will leave it less empty as it is now.

The very important factors to take into consideration with the chosen site location would be:

- There is no issues with housing units in the area considering that most of the spacesurrounding thesiteconsists of houses

- There are two main entrances to the site with one being connected to a main road

- The site location sits adjacent to a habitat ground that has been preserved for local wildlife, which means foxes, insects and other animals could potentially bepresent in thesitelocation

- Next to the Site location is the YMCA building which holds a lot of different purposes that could potentially linkwith thedesign brief

Cad mapper shows which buildings stick out the most in the area. As expected, this includes the YMCA building adjacent tothe site location. There is potential ideas for a bridge to connect the YMCA to the park through the use of a bridge across the small river separating the two. This would ease access but is not necessarily important.

Using cad mapper, I was able to greatly simplify the site location and its surrounding buildings. We can see from the images being displayed on this screen that there is limited grass land compared to land used for paths/ roads and buildings. This means that for my renovation project I must try preserve as much grass as possible ensuring that the playground will not take up too much of thepark’s space. The birds-eye view image also shows how there is one path that cuts through the middle of the park. On the left of this path is where I will do the majority of the renovations as I feel it would be best to leave the right section as it is. It is important that this part of the site remains untouched considering that it is usually used for sports / pet owners / other physical activities.