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An interdisciplinary debate on project perspectives

Table 1 .

From: Towards developing sustainable design standards for waterfront open spaces

General standards

Spiritual standards

Special standards

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

 

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

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