Towards developing sustainable design standards for waterfront open spaces

Salama, Shery William

doi:10.1186/s40410-022-00172-3

City, Territory and Architecture

An interdisciplinary debate on project perspectives

Table 3 Design criteria considered when analyzing spaces in London

From: Towards developing sustainable design standards for waterfront open spaces

Standards		Monitoring and processing	Sense
Social	Noise	It considered by separating pedestrian traffic from a vehicle	Hearing
Social	Privacy
Aesthetic	Pollution	The spaces that cause pollution been separated from the vehicles, and the presence of vegetation cover helps purify the air	Vision, hearing and smelling
	Comfort	Considering the temperature, providing shaded areas, and separating the movement of vehicles that cause noise	Thermal and hearing
	Personality	Forming spaces to support the same character of the space	Vision
	Visual clarity	Spaces are formed to be visible to users	Vision
Economic	Cost	Local environment materials used	Vision
Environmental	Climate	Cold, rainy winters with shaded places	Thermal
	Soil type	Cohesive Clay	Touch
	Topography	No diversity in the skyline
Urban	Density	Increases within holidays	Vision and hearing
	Connectivity	The communication between spaces and activities is good	Acceleration
	Diversity	Get along in designing treatments (floral elements and various activities)	Vision, Smell and thermal
	Security	It arises in the detachment between the movement of cars and spaces	Hearing
	Activity	It appeared in design management, activities, and lighting	Vision, Smell and Touch
	Development
	Car Parks	The yards provided for spaces	Hearing
	Seating area	Provide shaded seats made of PVC	Touch, thermal and Joints
	Lighting elements	Provision of lighting poles	Vision
	Garbage pins	Garage boxes were used	Smelling
	Grading
	Leisure activities	Available Recreation Park	Acceleration and Balancing
	Aromatic gardens	Presence of aromatic plants	Smelling
	Floor texture and Tiling types	Pallets fabricated of stone materials	Touch
	Waterfronts	Water elements appeared in the spaces	Thermal and Hearing
	Infrastructure	Sculptural arts and distinctive signs appeared	Touch and Vision
	Restaurants and cafeterias	Available	Touch, Pressure and Chemical
	Trees and Arches	Trees were used for shading	Thermal
	Pedestrian path	Attention to pedestrian paths and their separation from vehicles	Hearing
	Signage	They used in the blanks, matched in materials and general characteristics	Vision
	Visual Aesthetic	Using pl ants’ consciously	Vision and Smell

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