1st slide: So now that we already know the relevance of - can children or poor people?
oor people? 10th slide: Primary uses therefore support secondary uses,
permeability to have a responsive environment, let us
move on to variety.
2nd slide: Variety - The object of this second stage in design
is to maximize the variety of uses in the project. So, in
variety, accessible places are only valuable if they offer
experiential choice: variety is therefore the second key
quality to be considered in having a responsive
environment.
3rd slide: So this is Variety. It refers to the range of uses
that a place provides. As I’ve said, the more accessible the
place, the more the experiences these places offer.
4th slide: For example, we have here housing, shopping,
recreation, and so forth. Location of these activities are
influenced by functional design, politics, decisions of
developers, and economic condition of the place.
5th slide: We have different levels of variety,
Variety of experience implies places with varied forms,
uses and meanings. Variety of use unlocks the other levels
of variety:
How does this work? First Uses, a place with varied uses
has varied building types, of varied forms which attracts
varied people, at varied times, for varied reasons.
For example, a city, ha specific place for example
downtown, it has many building types, right? Or also called
variety of forms, and in those buildings, it has variety of
uses which is the main purpose of people going into that
area. So, meaning, it all depends on its uses. And because
the different activities, forms and people provide a rich
perceptual mix, different users interpret the place in
different ways:
6th slide: Variety and Choice
The purpose of promoting variety is to increase choice. But
choice also depends on mobility: people who are highly
mobile can take advantage of a variety of activities even if
these are spread over a wide area.
But in practice, who can afford high mobility?'
- or disabled or sick people?
- or parents with young children?
- or even women generally?
For people like these - probably the majority, taken
together - real choice depends on a close grain of variety.
7th slide: Next how to maximize it?
The variety of uses a project can support depends on three
main factors:
- the range of activities which want to locate there, which
we shall call demand.
- the possibility of supplying affordable space in the
scheme to house these activities.
- the extent to which the design encourages positive
interactions between them.
So, we have here:
Demand, Affordable space, Positive interactions
8th slide: In demand, most development agencies
concentrate on small range of uses for which an obvious
demand exist. And obviously, nobody will fund a project
unless makikita nira na there is demand for the space it
will provide.
9th slide: So here, you can’t maximize the variety of
activities, if there is no available space that is affordable.
Kay If space is expensive, only a few types will be found.
- to encourage variety we must keep rents and purchase
prices low. One important way of doing this is by
keeping down the costs of the scheme.
- A second way of providing cheap space is by finding a
source of subsidy. Using some profitable element within
it to subsidies other uses which cannot afford an
economic rent.
- Total redevelopment is bad for variety because all rents
are pushed up. But total lack of development is also far
from ideal because it implies that the area will attract
neither up-market uses, nor those which need the
functional advantages of new buildings.
irrigating them with the pedestrian flows they need for
survival. It acts like a magnet, attracting people to a site.
A simple example is the way a shopping center works. The
primary stores attract large numbers of people to the
complex, whilst the smaller secondary enterprises -
necessary for variety - feed off the pedestrian flow
between these main magnets. The economic importance
of pedestrians explains why shops, for example, pay more
for sites with high pedestrian flows.
11th slide: Time element:
The time element is also important to this system of
mutual support. Some secondary uses - often the most
convivial ones, such as restaurants - need long working
hours, perhaps from mid-morning till late evening, to make
a living. So, mas drawn it people hito na area pag
naaccommodate hira over a long period of time.
12th slide: In feasibility we have Functional feasibility. In
here important it adjacency of the buildings. Like how
functional it can be in that specific area na dire hiya
makaapekto hit iba na buildings. Kay mayda instances na
dire hira pwede igsapit, because of factors like noise or
traffic generation.
13th slide: In Political Feasibility, whenever the pattern of
uses proposed departs either from accepted norms or
from local planning policy, agreement from the local
authority will depend at least partly on evidence of public
support for the uses put forward. Like in Vigan, mayda nira
policy from the government na it ira design dapat kadaan.
14th slide: Lastly, in Economic Feasibility, to be
economically viable, a project must fulfil one basic
condition: its economic value when completed must be
greater than or equal to the cost of producing it, plus any
profit required by the developers concerned.