Family Housing Shared Green Space : Scale

Tower

Key Buildings Precedents

44 Newington Green, London

20th Feb Interim Crit: Peer review notes

Fantastic verbal presentation 

Model is zoning - convert 'zones' into blocks

Slight confusion over roads + layout

Process is good, but programme needs further assessment

- proximity of city centre / proposed [family] residential layout is a concern

- re-visit context ie.  London Road, the edge / boundary

- maximise existing character 

What can be done with the edge to make it enjoyable

The 02 venue is an opportunity to look into

Think about the functionality of 'Iconic' / small scale 

Phasing strategy, a way into the problem

- proposition?

Sequence views should be in colour

Top down or bottom up approach to scheme

How do you get families to stay?

Visuals to show the scheme

- road level perspectives

What would be seen from above?

- birds eye views

Sketches on the wall!

  

Interconnection

Diagram

Our scheme as a diagram

We are getting closer to our scheme as an impactful diagram with a clear purpose and legibility.

Perhaps as important - or at least to support the impact of our diagram - we are also getting closer to a title and/or tag line.

The words below have been consistent throughout and could form the title or tag line. Any ideas?

The Freedom of the City

This book is wonderful, I'm only half way through an have two pages of quotes applicable to our project. Just to whet your appetites:

"Successful and contented cities depend on promoting activity."

"Safety is better guaranteed by the presence of other people."

"...greater tolerance of difference involving all members of society, rather than conveniently conveniently pretending some don't matter, or simply matter less."

"Humans are social animals and get an enormous amount from the conviviality of city life."

"In post-war modernist planning, aesthetics have triumphed over ethics. It is time to bring the two together again."

"What makes public space is use." (Not ownership)

See you in the morning

Re Language, Branding, Identity, Wayfinding

I think there is an opportunity to provide visitors' with information about the history of the area, albeit possibly in an abstract way.

Could it be that the journey from the arrival zone to the universities is the route where this information can be discovered;  the aim, to provide visitors' with a true sense of the place.

Our investigation into Liverpool's existing street plan, and the wider context of the city, has shown us that the existing road pattern has a dramatic, currently negative, impact on accessibility.

A simplified, more coherent approach should be adopted to enable visitors access to all parts of the city.  In this case, though, the principal focus is to address the issue of cross city access routes between Islington and the university campuses of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores.

Louis Kahn once described the organisation of architectural zones as "serving spaces" and "served spaces".  The successful interpretation of this idea is paramount to the potential success of our 'vision' for Islington.

Two clear sight-lines (or even site-lines?) have emerged through our design development and those will act as the 'spine', or structure, of our resulting scheme.  It will hopefully become the main focus, into which we can knit public spaces and the buildings which serve them.