An interdisciplinary debate on project perspectives
From: Towards developing sustainable design standards for waterfront open spaces
General standards | Spiritual standards | Special standards |
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Topography: The difference in landform leveling features affects the sight line internally and externally | Comfort: A sense of comfort produced by considering climate, noise, and pollution | Privacy: affected by some factors as distance, noise, and plant treatments, whether visual or auditory |
Soil: The nature of land affects the utilization of materials and treatments. The designer's success is evaluated by his power to adapt the quality of soil to serve the design functions | Diversity: Forming a homogeneous building in which the various activities harmonize | Orientation: means directing the space to achieve the human comfort |
Climate: affects the comfort sense for the users of the space | Behavior: Strengthening and supporting human activity and behavior in a space | Safety: providing a sense of safety through good lighting distribution or maintaining the safety and user’s security |
Noise: Controlling noise inside a space is one of the most important comfort criteria that should be considered | Identity/Personality: Each site should receive an independent personality that can ensure the architectural style | Safety: providing a sense of safety through good lighting distribution or maintaining the safety and user’s security |
Pollution: Divided into visual, auditory, and environmental (resulting from industrial waste) | Visual clarity: The site components should be organized in a way that helps linking them | Car parking: intended to provide parking lots to separate pedestrian traffic from cars traffic flow |
Density: It refers to the person percentage in activity sharing, and in that regard, there is no fixed rate, as it depends on several factors as location, cost, users, and the surrounding environment | Independent development: Open spaces capable to develop without depending on surrounding | Â |
Connectivity: Any site efficiency is measured according to the degree of its accessibility, and in the case of beach fronts, highways or roads, they are not relied upon because they separate the beach and the spaces and cause the sea to be isolated from the spaces.(Marshall, R., (2001).like what happened at Barcelona, that car movement are restricted to major roads around the outside of the superblock, switch large numbers of streets to pedestrians and cyclists (Boeck.S., 2021) Preserving the site as a permanent natural resource: Meaning exploiting the site’s resources without depleting them |  |  |
Cost: The most successful solutions that can achieve low implementation and maintenance costs | Â | Â |