LILAC

www.lilacapp.com

Lilac is the first urban design application with the urban transect, public space, vistas and pedestrian scale baked in.

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Quickly produce regulating plans for greenfield and brownfield sites Import simple static backgrounds
[PRO] Start with detailed site terrain [PRO] GIS import

Place existing buildings and natural features - and planned civic buildings - onto the site
By default these are placed as simple blocks: a lake flat, a tree tall and thin, a complicated building as a series of blocks. [PRO] Import complicated existing or civic buildings

Use default transect settings to generate draft 3D scenes

Choose from built in North American Traditional or Modernist transect parameters and facades [PRO] Calibrate transects to your own site and tradition

Note passive warnings such as

No four-way stops allowed (remove restriction in [PRO]) 3 transects per 5 minute walk Transect violation (adjacent) Block length Terminating vistas onto civic buildings

[PRO] Export into Sketchup, ESRI formats

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City

Metro Core

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T3

T4

T5

T6

Greenfield

Town

T2

T3

T4

Town

T2

T3

T4

Town

T2

T3

T4

City

T2

T3

T4

T5

City

T2

T3

T4

T5

App

T4

T4

150ft

T4

T4

T4

T4

25%

Base unit: 150sqft T4 Square. Click and this is what appears. Never streets or buildings alone.

If CPU processing permits, could show tree line and building outlines for scale. Tree line 25% out. Buildings based on transect max/min.

Rendered simply like this for speed.

T4

T4

T4

T4

Add/delete sides. L

T4

T4

T4

Curve sides. L

T3

T3

T3

Change transect on all four sides. App recognises majority transect and adjusts square to park.

T3

T3 T3

T3 T3

T3 T3

Curve four sides, to create a roundabout. L

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T4

300ft

T4

T4

Resize L

T4

T3

75ft

T3

T3

Change transect L

T3

T3

75ft

T3

T3

Example Streetmix design integration L

T3

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Resize square to street ratio/dimensions: end buildings disappear. L

T3

T4

Change transect on one side. L

T3

T4

Algorithm: Higher transect supersedes on corner lot. Lot dimensions adhere to transect min/max After corner lot, use the transect of the street

Join streets and squares to form street network. L

T4

T4

T3

Only one corner of space allowed inside. Other blocked at edge.

Four-way stops are blocked by design. L

T3

T3

The four edges of the corner lot parallel the street and the buildings.

T3

T3

T4

T3
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T4 T4 T3

T4

T3

T4

T4

T4

T4

T4 T3 T4
This overlap is not blocked, because only one of the place corners overlaps.

T3

T4

Brownfield (infill overlay for good bones)

Brownfield (infill overlay for sprawl repair)

Grapes. Scattered buildings with access roads, no enclosed place or cohesive urban form.

Cheese. Buildings connected to form a cohesive, transect-appropriate streetwall.

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