Today I have been trying to get my head around what a masterplan has within it, and to get an understanding of what the use of it is.
I have been reading through John Ratcliffe’s Urban Planning which has some great information on Urban Planning, with the use of this I am starting to understand what makes a good urban design.
(Ratcliffe, 2002)
Ratcliffe gave me some good ideas of urban design and what I need to figure out in order to make my masterplan a good quality and achieve the stakeholder’s requirements. Some key elements focus on;
- A development that suits its surrounding
- Traditional use of local materials, matching the surrounding architecture and not having a building that sticks out and looks out of place
- Creation of a community with a mix of land use with shops, residential and commercial buildings
- The similarity of buildings for their uses, for example, making sure an office is distinctive from a dwelling
- Make the urban form diverse and stimulating with the use of squares piazzas, narrow and winding streets, landscaping and traffic calming
(Anon., n.d.)
Next, I looked at how to form the masterplan, I found the above description for some idea of how to lay it out. Now with a basic idea of what is required its time to look into more detail of the NSQ.
References
Anon., n.d. The Master Plan Process. [Online]
Available at: https://www.kent.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/23583/Masterplanning-for-SuDS-Part-5.pdf
[Accessed 11 01 2019].
Ratcliffe, J., 2002. Urban Planning and Real Estate Development. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
