CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS

Lewes Neighbourhood Development Plan

Context Through Kevin Lynch’s Eyes

Design Principles Beyond ‘The Image of the City’

Methodology

I have conducted this masterwork benefiting from a solid understanding of the planning context and Lewes as I have developed professionally in the area.

The methodology is based on a critical analysis of the most relevant and locallymade planning policy (Lewes Neighbourhood Development Plan) as well as the work of authors in the field of urbanism and design that I find inspirational and compatible with my critical position. I also decided to illustrate through precedents the ideas that result from the policy critical review as these would help to visualise some conceptual ideas that will influence scenarios.

Lessons learned from policy and academic discussions are used to contextualise a site analysis of the Station Car Park. Whilst there are many aspects of the site that had to be analysed, I decided to focus on the main factors that relate to policy and academic discussions.

The method for design solutions has been based in creative sketching ideas that test the position of buildings, routes and spaces in relation to the lessons learned and design principles that result from the site and academic analysis. This is an iterative process of ideas that are successful to some regard and fail in other aspects. Each subsequent sketch builds on the lessons learned from the previous sketch.

Finally, I have developed three scenarios that are supported with site plans and three-dimensional visualisations of the proposals that identify how and where scenarios meet design aspirations in the context of the critical position, policy, academic and context analysis.