DESIGN
Integrating urban and landscape dynamics
FRAMEWORK DETAILING
07/04/19
EXPLANATION
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One of the main ideas behind the vein is that it adapts and changes depending on the urban, social and landscape conditions of the area it goes through. This way the vein should have a better performance and respond to the needs of the different communities it goes through. I have divided the vein into five areas:
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A boulevard in the city centre, which will follow and encourage the pedestrianization of the centre of the city.
A linear park that will provide recreation space and resilience for the middle class residential area.
As it goes further up this will more of a productive space
Node areas on the edge of the city, which will be heavily programmed areas to protect from building on vein space
Landscape corridors that will eventually be like other areas but that for now will focus on slowing down water runoffs and preventing erosion.
REFLECTION
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In this stage of the design I went into detail into how this vein would work and how urban dynamics could be integrated into landscape or natural dynamics. My idea was to have a set of axos and visuals for each part of the vein and then some strategy proposals that would be aplicable to most areas.
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I think this last part did not work very well, instead I just focused for each part of vein on a certain aspect. However I was successfull in my aim of showing how to integrate urban and nature dynamics and this detailing helped me on moving forward into the next step of my design.
REFLECTION ON PRACTICE
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More than half of the public space and parks being designed at the moment in practice don’t improve the resilience of urban areas. With climate change and the growth of cities, integrating resilient systems in our designs becomes a must element.
Landscape and public space can be an agent for direct economic growth and development, we need to develop the potential of this and use it to encourage a more active role of landscape in cities.