An interdisciplinary debate on project perspectives
From: Towards developing sustainable design standards for waterfront open spaces
Standards Senses | Vision | Hearing | Touch | Smelling | Tasting | Temperature | Chemical | Pressure | Joint position | Acceleration | Balance | Monitoring and processing | |
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Social | Noise | √ | Controlling noise in the urban space is one of the most important comfort criteria that should be considered | ||||||||||
Privacy | √ | Privacy affected by many factors دas distance, noise, and plant treatments, whether visual or audio | |||||||||||
Aesthetic | Pollution | √ | √ | √ | divided into optical, audio, and environmental (resulting from industrial waste) | ||||||||
Comfort | √ | √ | √ | The sense of comfort produced by considering climate, noise, and pollution | |||||||||
Personality | √ | √ | √ | Each site should have an independent identity result from the element used | |||||||||
Visual clarity | √ | The component element should be organized in a method that helps connect the space | |||||||||||
Economic | Cost | √ | √ | One of the most successful solutions is the one that can achieve low implementation and maintenance costs | |||||||||
Environmental | Topography | √ | The difference in the grading affects the urban space internal and external vision | ||||||||||
Soil type | √ | The nature of the soil affects the type of materials used and treatments. The designer's success evaluated by his potential to adapt the quality of soil for the design purposes serves | |||||||||||
Climate | √ | The climate affects the comfort feeling for space users | |||||||||||
Preserving site as permanent natural resource | √ | Standing for the exploitation of the site without resources depletion | |||||||||||
Urban | Density | √ | √ | It refers to the per capita share of activities (there is no fixed rate), as it depends on several factors as location, cost, users, and the surrounding environment | |||||||||
Connectivity | √ | The efficiency of any area evaluated according to its accessibility degree | |||||||||||
Diversity | √ | Creating a homogeneous space with several activities | |||||||||||
Security | √ | √ | Providing safety feeling through good lighting distribution also maintaining the safety and protection of users | ||||||||||
Activity | √ | √ | √ | Deepening and supporting human activity and behavior in the urban space | |||||||||
Development | √ | √ | √ | √ | For the space to develop without depending on what its surroundings | ||||||||
Car Parks | √ | It designated to afford parking spaces to separate pedestrian traffic from cars | |||||||||||
Seating area | ● | The seat allocations in different textures in spaces to offer a different sensory experience for users | |||||||||||
Garbage pins | ● | Garbage pin’s location away from the windward direction and encourage recycling | |||||||||||
Aromatic gardens | ● | Place aromatic gardens in the direction of wind blowing | |||||||||||
Floor texture | ● | ● | Vary the texture of the floors as an essence of communication with the space to alert him to function transformation | ||||||||||
Leisure activities | ● | Providing recreational activities as fun parks and children's area | |||||||||||
Waterfronts | ● | ● | Using water elements to provide cool weather, also for people to touch it and stimulate the touch sense | ||||||||||
Tiling types | ● | Change the tiling types not to induce pain, falls or injuries | |||||||||||
Infrastructure | ● | ● | Use sculpture and mural elements that foster people to touch and interact with them | ||||||||||
Restaurants and cafeterias | ● | ● | ● | Offering restaurants and cafeterias interface them to the general urban character of the space | |||||||||
Trees andArches | ● | Providing tree planting shade, arches, or umbrellas for spaces to induce the presence in the space | |||||||||||
Pedestrian path | ● | Stimulating pedestrian traffic instead of vehicle | |||||||||||
Signage | ● | The usage of signs and paintings to match the materials that characterizes the space | |||||||||||
Light features | ● | Providing lighting elements to consider the safety element and to exhibit the aesthetic aspects of the space | |||||||||||
Public WC | X | X | Providing public toilets to prevent odors resulting from people spending their need in the streets | ||||||||||
Entertainment sounds | X | Adding elements that generate amusement sounds like music and fountains | |||||||||||
Visual axes | X | The necessity of opening visual axes on the waterfront (in the case of spaces with the waterfront) |