▸ Senior Planner in the Facilities Branch of QUT

▸ Urban Design Brief for Lamington Dve

▸ Problem before solution - Audit

MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

▸ Placecheck

▸ Facebook – Lamington Dve

▸ Bring a hard copy of this checklist next week

MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

▸ Memory Map of the Drive (1 A3 Panel)

▸ Site Plan (1 A3 Panel at Scale)

▸ Site Characteristics (1 or 2 A3 panels)

▸ Site Ideas (1 or 2 A3 panels)

▸ Conclusions (1 A3 panel)

▸ Recommendations (1 A3 panel).

UNEARTHING LAMINGTON DVE

2. VALUES

▸ Target Niches:

▸ Teenager

▸ International Student

▸ 8 year old

▸ 80 year old

▸ Prospective cafe

owner

Centre Place, Melbourne City, VIC, AUS

Urban Design + Placemaking 101

Place Values

Place Qualities

Outcomes

5 Place Typology

Place process

Place roles

Toolkit - placemaking ideas

Links+ conclusions

OUR FOCUS

Wh

at + W

hy

How

+ W

ho

4.5 STREETS

“People have always lived on

streets. They have been the

places where children first

learned about the world,

where neighbours met, the

social centres of towns and

cities, the rallying points for

revolts, the scenes of

repression... The street has

always been the scene of

this conflict, between living

and access, between

resident and traveller,

between street life and the

threat of death.” Appleyard,

1981

Graceville, QLD, AUS

Musk Ave - Kelvin Grove Urban Village, Brisbane QLD

4.5 WHAT MAKES A GOOD STREET?

1. Connectivity in the surrounding

network

2. Fine grain street system

3. Streets with low traffic speed

(but not necessarily low

volume)

4. A street that has an equal

interest, activity and buildings

on both sides (some

exceptions)

5. A proportion of street width to

building height of 1:1?

6. Width of footpath (as well as

the quality of the surface) is

relevant (width vs critical mass)

▸ Streets as movement

corridors or outdoor

rooms?

▸ “Lost the art of the small”

Rob Adams (43:12:00)

4.5 WHAT MAKES A GOOD STREET?

7. Points of entry and transparency

to buildings and other spaces

8. Detailing of shop fronts

9. Provide active uses at street

level

10.Informal spaces including entries

11.Shop fronts that open to the

street

12.Small parks, green patches or

landscaped courtyards

13.Water

14.Seats

James St, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

4.5 WHAT MAKES A GOOD STREET?

15. Trees and planting

16. Protect the pedestrian with awnings

17. Variety of uses and activities

18. Encourage day and night time

activities to extend its active life

19. Make sure to cater for children as

well as the elderly

20. Is there variety and interest in

building form

21. Coordinated and integrated signage

22. Underground powerlines

Orion Town Centre – Springfield, QLD, AUS

▸ “Traffic is a civil problem

not a design problem”

David Engwicht

http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=4236

REDUCE COSTS - PROTOTYPING

PLACES FOR PEOPLE AND TRAFFIC

Old Belvidere Prom - East Perth, WA, AUS

PULLING IT TOGETHER – SIX THINKING HATS

1. Process (blue)

2. What is working on the

Drive? (Yellow)

3. What isn’t? (black)

4. What if we could… (green)

http://www.loosetooth.com/Vis

com/gf/6thinkinghats.htm

RECOMMENDATIONS

Idea LQC/HSE Champion Can I? Merit

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

▸ LQC: Lighter Quicker

Cheaper

▸ HSE: Heavy Slow,

Expensive

▸ Champion: public or

private

:

▸ Can I influence this?

(Yes or No)

▸ Merit (1 being low, 5

being high)

:

RECOMMENDATIONS

*Insert the number of the idea

from the previous sheet

▸ Evidence: do we have the data

or understand the problem?

▸ What: do we need to do?

▸ Budget: how much will we

need to spend?

▸ Time: how long should it

take?

▸ Who: is responsible (do we

have the ability)

▸ Me: What can I do?

▸ Success: how will we

measure success

Idea* Evidence What Budget Time Who Me Success

▸ Assignment One Due

▸ Form groups

▸ Prepare Brief

NEXT WEEK