Environmental design studies on perception and simulation: an urban design approach

Piga, Barbara Ester Adele; Morello, Eugenio

doi:10.4000/ambiances.647

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“…This would arguably help speed up the decision-making process by helping decision-makers become more aware of the transformations that are introduced in the urban context: "doing the right thing in the right place". This can be useful to produce a better acceptance of urban plans reducing the likelihood of conflicts between different experts or people that participate in the processes of planning development [31,[72][73][74].…”

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A Bottom-Up and Top-Down Participatory Approach to Planning and Designing Local Urban Development: Evidence from an Urban University Center

Semeraro

Zaccarelli

Lara

et al. 2020

Land

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The urban area is characterized by different urban ecosystems that interact with different institutional levels, including different stakeholders and decision-makers, such as public administrations and governments. This can create many institutional conflicts in planning and designing the urban space. It would arguably be ideal for an urban area to be planned like a socio-ecological system where the urban ecosystem and institutional levels interact with each other in a multi-scale analysis. This work embraces a planning process that aims at being applied to a multi-institutional level approach that is able to match different visions and stakeholders' needs, combining bottom-up and top-down participation approaches. At the urban scale, the use of this approach is sometimes criticized because it appears to increase conflicts between the different stakeholders. Starting from a case study in the Municipality of Lecce, South Italy, we apply a top-down and bottom-up participation approach to overcome conflicts at the institutional levels in the use of the urban space in the Plan of the Urban University Center. The bottom-up participation action analyzes the vision of people that frequent the urban context. After that, we share this vision in direct comparison with decision-makers to develop the planning and design solutions. The final result is a draft of the hypothetical Plan of the Urban University Center. In this way, the bottom-up and top-down approaches are useful to match the need of the community that uses the area with the vision of urban space development of decision-makers, reducing the conflicts that can arise between different institutional levels. In this study, it also emerges that the urban question is not green areas vs. new buildings, but it is important to focus on the social use of the space to develop human well-being. With the right transition of information and knowledge between different institutional levels, the bottom-up and top-down approaches help develop an operative effective transdisciplinary urban plan and design. Therefore, public participation with bottom-up and top-down approaches is not a tool to obtain maximum consensus, but mainly a moment of confrontation to better address social issues in urban planning and design.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Bottom-Up and Top-Down Participatory Approach to Planning and Designing Local Urban Development: Evidence from an Urban University Center

Semeraro

Zaccarelli

Lara

et al. 2020

Land

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“…Other materials were included in the toolkit to improve the quality of the discussion. In line with the principles of an experiential approach applied to urban design [70,71], four context photographs taken from the center of the study area in its current condition and printed in large size (A0) (tool 2) were placed around the table where participants sat, to evoke the visual context in which the project was inserted and to offer proper stimuli. Moreover, two maps of the district (A0 size) (tool 3) and of the CG (A1 size) (tool 4) were placed on the table to provide a spatial reference for the discussion.…”

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Sustainable Co-Design with Older People: The Case of a Public Restorative Garden in Milan (Italy)

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The demographic aging and the evolution of lifestyles require new strategies to promote the well-being and active aging of elderly. Active aging depends on many factors: some of these are related to objective data such as physical environment, others are personal elements; it is important to improve environmental physical factors to encourage personal attitudes to the green spaces in use. To design a small sustainable restorative green space in Milan, Italy, restorative garden design criteria are summarized in the first section of the paper and both social and environmental sustainability are considered. The methodology section describes the co-design process and how it was applied to include different older user groups in the design of the area. In the results section authors apply a taxonomy based on the four properties of restorative settings according to the Attention Restoration Theory by Kaplan (compatibility, being away, extent, fascination): this provides a unified system to classify users’ expectations and to describe the final project. The proposed co-design process combines social and environmental sustainability, as it provides designers an insight about the user’s experience in nature. Such information can be fruitfully integrated with professional competences about comfort aspects and environmental protection in order to improve the whole design project.

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“…Through it, the built environment -a corpus of buildings -becomes an environment alive with a story to tell. This way ambiance creates personal sentiment, encouraging better understanding and prolonging the impact of an experience: from place to the sense of place [4]. For only an experience, which has the audience fully emotionally invested, can affect it in any lasting way: promote, dissuade etc.…”

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Maintaining the ambiance of regenerated postmilitary complexes − current and emerging possibilities

Rudnicka-Bogusz

2019

SHS Web Conf.

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Ambiance provides scholarly value to historic architectural precincts and complexes. Through it, the built environment − a corpus of buildings − becomes an environment with its own unique narrative. It grants us the possibility of interacting with the atmosphere of the place as it was in the epoch. However, due to the nature of modern development, living historic cities are changing dynamically. To stay in use, and thus continue their scholastic mission, historic urban areas need to be integrated into local development through either within-use adaptation or conversion to new functions. For historic barrack complexes, this usually means extensive redevelopment. The difficulty comes from accommodating quotidian use while maintaining its historiographic values, especially with historically sensitive sites. This means the designers should take the legibility of the original complex into consideration in their designs and provide suitable aids to visitors. As it turns out there is not a universal approach, instead different approaches allow preservation of various degrees of the original ambiance.

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Environmental design studies on perception and simulation: an urban design approach

Cited by 43 publications

References 26 publications

A Bottom-Up and Top-Down Participatory Approach to Planning and Designing Local Urban Development: Evidence from an Urban University Center

A Bottom-Up and Top-Down Participatory Approach to Planning and Designing Local Urban Development: Evidence from an Urban University Center

Sustainable Co-Design with Older People: The Case of a Public Restorative Garden in Milan (Italy)

Maintaining the ambiance of regenerated postmilitary complexes − current and emerging possibilities

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