The future – from theory to practice
Streetscape – Richard Rogers partnership
Tram ling- tram link
The five masterplans
The council is working with public and private stakeholders on a series of masterplans to deliver change on the ground in the Croydon Metropolitan Centre (CMC), the greatest focus for our investment and growth.
The masterplans engage all major landowners, developers and public sector stakeholders from the outset in a collaboration to reflect the ambitions of all. Read more about all the masterplans on www.croydonthirdcity.co.uk
Wellesley Road Masterplan
We aim to enliven Wellesley Road and Park Lane with new uses and activities, transforming the existing 'urban motorway' into exemplary urban space. The renewal of this key area will help to make Croydon an attractive place to live and invest.The Strategic Urban Design Report is due for completion summer 2010.
East Croydon Masterplan
Improvements to Croydon's 'front door' will create an exciting new city quarter with a world class railway station and transport interchange. There will be a well connected high quality public realm and development will be coherent and integrated. Masterplan due for completion summer 2010.
West Croydon Masterplan
Better integration and links to the town centre will complement the improved station and transport interchange, creating a new doorway to Croydon. The area will see a coordinated new high quality public realm and built environment. The masterplan is due for completion summer 2010.
College Green Masterplan
The vision is to develop a learning and cultural area offering a vibrant mixture of educational, leisure, entertainment, residential and retai usesl. The world class public realm, will provide a platform for active use and performance, complemented by the reinvented cultural offer of Fairfield Halls. Masterplan due for completion summer 2010.
Mid Croydon Masterplan
The aim is to create a high quality build environment with a mix of uses that will complement existing assets and contribute to the wider mix of the CMC. It will include a range of high quality public spaces with a welcoming pedestrian experience and will be a low carbon development that leads the way in terms of environmental sustainability. The council is commissioning a multidisciplinary consultant team to develop this masterplan - the team should be selected by June 2010, with completion planned for autumn 2010.
New and improved transport facilities, particularly improvements to bus operations and rail stations, will support the new residents and workers in Croydon. Impacts of the growth of electric vehicles and possible extensions to the tram system will also be taken into account. The transformed central area will have new greenways for pedestrians and cyclists, linking surrounding parks and new public squares, which will form a network of quality urban spaces for amenity and recreation. The squares will also provide a focus for new cultural, social and community facilities, as the residential and commercial transformation gathers pace over the next 20 to 30 years.
In another important step plentiful, low-carbon energy could be on the cards for businesses and homes through a new district energy scheme and vacuum waste management systems that are currently being investigated. A transformed Wellesley Road - reduced from an eight-lane highway to a human-scale boulevard - will form the spine for the new energy, infrastructure, transport and public space improvements.
About 8,000 new homes are proposed in current plans for the Croydon Opportunity Area. Most will be in flats and apartments, built in a series of new towers, but there will also be a significant number of family-sized homes, particularly on the edges of the centre. However, the important heritage of Croydon, such as Surrey Street and the 'Old Town' area will be retained and enhanced with new developments being sensitively incorporated into the existing fabric of the area. The benefits to those living in the surrounding suburbs will include new facilities, green spaces, employment opportunities and improved transport.
Friday 26 November 2010
Thursday 25 November 2010
T18 Planning Policy Statements Review
Plan-making: a creative process
Urban Design Comments for Planning Decisions Reports
1. Introduction: factual description of design
- Size: height and basic massing
- Use: nature and distribution of programmes
- Context: immediate and wider location
2. External issues
- Ground floor use and relationship to street
- Thresholds and public – semipublic – private relationships
- Key routes near or through the site and wider links
- Landscaping and contribution to public realm (London Plan: policy 4B. 4Enhancing the quality of the public realm)
- Private external space and play space
3. Massing
- Tall building issues (London Plan: policy 4B. 8. Tall buildings – location; policy 4B. 9. Large-scale buildings – design and impact)
- Appropriateness to location
- Public access to upper floors
- Overshadowing and privacy
- Views (London Plan: Policy 4B.15 London View Protection Framework)
4. Architecture
- Design quality (London Plan: Policy 4B.2 Promoting world-class architecture and design)
- Articulation of facades and use of materials
- Internal arrangement issues: size/quality/location of rooms, Lifetime Homes Standards (London Plan: Policy 4B.5 Creating and inclusive environment)
- Entrances and frontages, and their relationship to the surrounding context
- Sustainability (London Plan: Policy 4B.6 Sustainable design and construction), in terms of passive environmental design, low-energy materials and construction techniques
+ Social network and Social mixed or Communities
- Council house and private house
Urban Design Comments for Planning Decisions Reports
1. Introduction: factual description of design
- Size: height and basic massing
- Use: nature and distribution of programmes
- Context: immediate and wider location
2. External issues
- Ground floor use and relationship to street
- Thresholds and public – semipublic – private relationships
- Key routes near or through the site and wider links
- Landscaping and contribution to public realm (London Plan: policy 4B. 4Enhancing the quality of the public realm)
- Private external space and play space
3. Massing
- Tall building issues (London Plan: policy 4B. 8. Tall buildings – location; policy 4B. 9. Large-scale buildings – design and impact)
- Appropriateness to location
- Public access to upper floors
- Overshadowing and privacy
- Views (London Plan: Policy 4B.15 London View Protection Framework)
4. Architecture
- Design quality (London Plan: Policy 4B.2 Promoting world-class architecture and design)
- Articulation of facades and use of materials
- Internal arrangement issues: size/quality/location of rooms, Lifetime Homes Standards (London Plan: Policy 4B.5 Creating and inclusive environment)
- Entrances and frontages, and their relationship to the surrounding context
- Sustainability (London Plan: Policy 4B.6 Sustainable design and construction), in terms of passive environmental design, low-energy materials and construction techniques
+ Social network and Social mixed or Communities
- Council house and private house
Tuesday 23 November 2010
T17 Stratford Lecture
It is a very useful and interesting lecture. Seoul also have a big Olympic site and athlete's village apartment is a high satisfy with POE So I also so expect how the site will be change after the Olympic. Also interesting thing is some of stadium will be destroyed after the Olympic.
*Abbey mills pumping station -> change to public space
School – 3000 people During the Game – campus
Huge urban shopping centre
The people will be passed through this shopping centre.
80% of people will be passed through the big bridge
I thought this plan planed precisely: during the Olympic and after Olympic
Energy centre in site will be conservation like Tate Modern
Flour- water pumping station
Bridge – economic material -> character- handrail, pattern differently
Central park Bridge -> width 15m?
Using color panels this bridge can change two side bridges.
2012 Innovation: stadium 2012
Aquatics Centre post game making smaller
The Velodrome – john Hopkins
Basketball stadium – like Beijing swimming pool
Arcelor Mittal Orbit:
Huge tim box
The cloud bridge: Angel Lane. By Oscar Bauer and Nazareno crea ->cool
2012 Olympic game – post game Transformation
Connecting Olympic park
What can do Olympic for London?
Munich 1972- I can’t believe it was built more than 30 years ago.
-15,000 new home 10,000 new jobs, 70,000 new residents
*Abbey mills pumping station -> change to public space
School – 3000 people During the Game – campus
Huge urban shopping centre
The people will be passed through this shopping centre.
80% of people will be passed through the big bridge
I thought this plan planed precisely: during the Olympic and after Olympic
Energy centre in site will be conservation like Tate Modern
Flour- water pumping station
Bridge – economic material -> character- handrail, pattern differently
Central park Bridge -> width 15m?
Using color panels this bridge can change two side bridges.
2012 Innovation: stadium 2012
Aquatics Centre post game making smaller
The Velodrome – john Hopkins
Basketball stadium – like Beijing swimming pool
Arcelor Mittal Orbit:
Huge tim box
The cloud bridge: Angel Lane. By Oscar Bauer and Nazareno crea ->cool
2012 Olympic game – post game Transformation
Connecting Olympic park
What can do Olympic for London?
Munich 1972- I can’t believe it was built more than 30 years ago.
-15,000 new home 10,000 new jobs, 70,000 new residents
Tuesday 2 November 2010
T13 Manifesto #2
When I started this MA course, I thought the urban design must see the whole site and bigger always. However, my unit works do different direction. It could start the scene of the site and then made a story. This methodology can see the actual scenes and everyday life in the site rather than looking the map long time. I can expect what happen in the site through the photos of actual scene. Furthermore, I had thought before the spatial planning is kind of interior design term. But, I changed it more political and actual idea of urban planning.
The studying policy is not easy for me. There are different policy and frameworks in each borough but it is also interesting to learn various view of the urban plan. Actually I had thought the balance of learning between urban design and spatial planning is important but, it cannot be divided and should goes together.
The most important point for me is how I can apply a lot of Royal docks data from MA SPUD into my unit work. I must combine these two works that political one and design one. I hope learn more about historical part and political part also want to research through the research methodology.
The studying policy is not easy for me. There are different policy and frameworks in each borough but it is also interesting to learn various view of the urban plan. Actually I had thought the balance of learning between urban design and spatial planning is important but, it cannot be divided and should goes together.
The most important point for me is how I can apply a lot of Royal docks data from MA SPUD into my unit work. I must combine these two works that political one and design one. I hope learn more about historical part and political part also want to research through the research methodology.
T12 Glossary of Terms #2
Planning
_ Make a rule for urban design and constructions, it should consider all of data from the site.
Spatial Planning
_Composing of the space with connect or cut off the space to serve its purpose. It could be a various scale.
Design
_ Create something looking good for practical purpose.
Urban Design
_To improve the urban environment to make people’s lives more comfortable and should focus on the function of public and private space.
Evaluating
_ Review the plan to apply or modify and also after the plan we can research how does the plan works
Local Development Framework
_ London has a different framework in each brough
Official Plan
_ a document adopted by the City Council, which contains a formal set of principles and policies, land use maps concerning the nature, pattern, extent and scheduling of future growth and change within the municipality for a specified period. (Urban design dictionary)
Smart City
_The new type of 21c city, it has a low and sustainable energy and it is controlled by IT. This city manages efficient network of traffic, energy and the people in the city.
Prototype
_ Main concept of urban design works in Urban Gallery method. It should be new idea to apply to smart city.
Sustainable Development
_ An important part of the modern urban plan, it include low carbon emission, green energy and etc.
_ Make a rule for urban design and constructions, it should consider all of data from the site.
Spatial Planning
_Composing of the space with connect or cut off the space to serve its purpose. It could be a various scale.
Design
_ Create something looking good for practical purpose.
Urban Design
_To improve the urban environment to make people’s lives more comfortable and should focus on the function of public and private space.
Evaluating
_ Review the plan to apply or modify and also after the plan we can research how does the plan works
Local Development Framework
_ London has a different framework in each brough
Official Plan
_ a document adopted by the City Council, which contains a formal set of principles and policies, land use maps concerning the nature, pattern, extent and scheduling of future growth and change within the municipality for a specified period. (Urban design dictionary)
Smart City
_The new type of 21c city, it has a low and sustainable energy and it is controlled by IT. This city manages efficient network of traffic, energy and the people in the city.
Prototype
_ Main concept of urban design works in Urban Gallery method. It should be new idea to apply to smart city.
Sustainable Development
_ An important part of the modern urban plan, it include low carbon emission, green energy and etc.
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