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 5 Criteria considered when analyzing spaces in Sharm El-Sheikh

From: Towards developing sustainable design standards for waterfront open spaces

Standards		Monitoring and processing	Sense
Social	Noise	Using Tree fence to separate spaces from residential uses	Hearing
Social	Privacy
Aesthetic	Pollution	Got a green cover helps purify the air	Vision, Hearing and Smelling
	Comfort	Considering the temperature, providing shaded areas,	Thermal and Hearing
	Personality	General character was adhered forming vocabulary in spaces as stone floors that are homogeneous with the surrounding mountain nature	Vision
	Visual clarity	Spaces are formed to be visible to users	Vision
Economic	Cost	Using Local environmental materials	Vision
Environmental	Climate	Warm, rainy winters with no shading areas	Thermal
	Soil type	Sandy and rocky	Touch
	Topography	No diversity in the skyline section
Urban	Density	Increases at night causes congestion	Vision and hearing
	Connectivity	Good	Acceleration
	Diversity	Appeared along the designing process	Vision, Smell and thermal
	Security	Electricity outlets treated well to avoid risk	Touch
	Activity	Appeared in planting treatments and lighting	Vision, Smell and Touch
	Development
	Car Parks	The yards provided for spaces	Hearing
	Seating area	Slightly provide but almost with no shades	Touch, thermal and Joints
	Lighting elements	Existing of lighting poles	Vision
	Garbage pins	Garage boxes were used	Smelling
	Grading
	Leisure activities	Kids fun area	Acceleration and Balancing
	Aromatic gardens
	Floor texture and Tiling types	Stone tiles
	Waterfronts	Water elements appeared in the spaces	Thermal and Hearing
	Infrastructure	Sculptural arts specially for animals	Touch and Vision
	Restaurants and cafeterias	Available	Touch, Pressure and Chemical
	Trees and Arches	Shading Trees were used plus wooden ones	Thermal
	Pedestrian path
	Signage	Used but not matched with the general characteristics of the space	Vision
	Visual Aesthetic	Come out in the contrasting rhythms that resulted from the conscious utilization of plant vocabulary	Vision and Smell

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