Design Criteria
URBS 200 Urban Spaces
People Places
Criteria for Design:
1.
Context
- Contrast
- Setbacks
- Spacing
- Proportion
- Scale
(Massing)
- Entryways
- Silhouette
- Style
- Landscaping
- Shadows
Spatial Definition
- size
- shape
- continuity
- floor
configuration
- height
of frame
- architecture
- sculpture
Design Review criteria
- State
design objectives
- Maintain
consistency over time
- Focus
on urban design (rather than architecture)
- Minimize
(and justify) exceptions
- Small,
unbiased review committee
Problems with presentation methods:
- Elevation
- Width
of lines misleads the eye
- Inability
to present modeling through shadows
- Perspective
- Unreliable
- Commonly
fails to show surrounding buildings
- Axonometric
- Unrealistic
perspective
- Modeling
- “Cuteness”—small
scale presents “smoother” finish
- Mt.
Olympus fallacy
- Photomontage
- Single
perspective
- Must
model the new construction
- Virtual
reality
- Still
very expensive and difficult to manage the software
- Still
must model any new construction