▸ 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

The Garage, South Bank, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Urban Design + Placemaking 101

Place Values

3 Place Qualities

More Information

Outcomes

Place Typology

Place process

Place roles

Toolkit - placemaking ideas

Links+ conclusions

OUR FOCUS

Wh

at + W

hy

How

+ W

ho

Anster St – Adelaide, SA, AUS

3. QUALITIES OF GOOD PLACES

1. Character

2. Diversity

3. Accessibility

4. Fit + function

5. Animators

6. Continuity + enclosure

7. Consistency + variety

8. Legibility

9. Structure

10. Features

11. Social Fabric

12. Sustainability

Pla

ce D

rivers

13. Quality of the public realm

14. Safety

15. Creativity

16. Sensory pleasure

Pla

ce

Pre

fere

nce

NZ Urban Design Protocol

VIC Urban Design Charter

Councillor’s Guide to Urban Design

(Urban Initiatives, 2003).

▸ PlaceCheck

▸ Page 10 The Place I – How can the streets and

other public spaces be made safer and more

pleasant for people on foot?

MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

3.8 LEGIBILITY

Dean St, Albury, NSW, AUS

▸ Landmarks

▸ Focal points

▸ Views

▸ Clear routes

▸ Gateways

▸ Lighting

▸ Works of art and craft

▸ Signage and waymarkers

3.8 PLACE DRIVER

Given Tce, Paddington, Bne, QLD, AUS

▸ PlaceCheck

▸ Page 14 The Place – K How can we make the

place more welcoming and easier for people to

find their way around?

MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

3.10 FEATURES

The Esplanade, Cairns, QLD, AUS

▸ Encourage play

(Engwicht Secret 10)

▸ 8-80

3.11 SOCIAL FABRIC

▸ Events, activities and cultural

infrastructure

▸ The quality of the public realm is a

means to an end not the end itself

▸ The places we like are not only

created, designed and delivered

- they also need to be maintained

St Patricks Day – George St, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

▸ Well-used and well-loved

▸ Generally safe, comfortable, varied and

attractive

▸ Distinctive

▸ Variety, choice and fun

▸ Meet the needs and aspirations of users

▸ Engwicht Secret 1 – Make people feel at

home

▸ “You can create a house with money but

not a home”

South Bank, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

3.13 QUALITY OF THE PUBLIC REALM

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

3. SENSORY PLEASURE

▸ Feed the senses

(Engwicht Secret 10)

▸ Delight the mind

People

Character

Enclosure

Legible

wAlkable

Sustainability

3.15 CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

Mark Lane, Toowoomba, QLD, AUS

▸ Experiment and rewrite rules

▸ Be yourself - skilfully

▸ Harness new technology

▸ Visualise new futures

▸ Innovation

3.15 CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

Mark Lane, Toowoomba, QLD, AUS

▸ PlaceCheck

▸ Page 12 The Place J How else can public

spaces be improved?

MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

Allen St, South, Townsville, QLD, AUS

3.12 SUSTAINABILITY

▸ Environmentally, socially and

economically

▸ Celebrate the environment in cities

▸ PlaceCheck

▸ Page 9 – H. How can we make this a greener place

▸ Page 15 - M How can better use be made of

resources?

MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

Ballarat Street, Yarraville, VIC, AUS

3. QUALITIES OF GOOD PLACES

1. Character

2. Diversity

3. Accessibility

4. Fit + function

5. Animators

6. Continuity + enclosure

7. Consistency + variety

8. Legibility

9. Structure

10. Features

11. Social Fabric

12. Sustainability

Pla

ce

Drivers 13. Quality of the public realm

14. Safety

15. Creativity

16. Sensory pleasure

Pla

ce

Pre

fere

nce

NZ Urban Design Protocol

VIC Urban Design Charter

Councillor’s Guide to Urban Design

(Urban Initiatives, 2003).

3. QUALITIES – MALCOLM SNOW

Rundle St Mall – Adelaide, SA, AUS

3 QUALITIES OF GOOD PLACES

▸ Engwicht Secret 3 – break the

rules

▸ Understand the rules but don’t be

bound by them

▸ “Learn the rules like a pro, so you

can break them like an

artist.”― Pablo Picasso

▸ Seek the inherent contradictions

▸ Everything we design should have

multiple or conflicting implications

Currie St, Nambour, QLD, AUS

PLACEMARK

Public realm: buildings and infrastructure support the place

Legibility: navigable and still interesting

WAlkable: people before private vehicles

Context: celebrate unique characteristics

Environment: sustain and enhance

Safety: help us understand risk to support safe behaviour

2. VALUES

▸ Target Niches:

▸ Teenager

▸ International Student

▸ 8 year old

▸ 80 year old

▸ Prospective cafe

owner

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)

5. How are you feeling? (red)

http://www.loosetooth.com/Vis

com/gf/6thinkinghats.htm

▸ Urban Design Site Analysis

MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

▸ Drawing class

▸ What’s required?

▸ Week after – studio session on your assignments

▸ Conclusions and recommendations

NEXT WEEK