Week 7: Unearthing Lamington Dve - my presentation to first planning students to get them excited about planning and design.

1. ▸ Senior Planner in the Facilities Branch of QUT
▸ Urban Design Brief for Lamington Dve
▸ Problem before solution - Audit
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

2. Youth Activity Precinct, Geelong, VIC, AUS
5. PLACE CREATION
Consultant (The Brief) ResponsibilityClient Responsibility
Client Influence Consultant (The Brief) Influence
Consultant (The Brief) ConsiderationClient Consideration

3. THE BRIEF:
Place
Context
Provides a summary of
your site
Your first assignment A page of agreed conclusions and
recommendations.
Place
Aspiration
Provides the aspiration for
Lamington Drive to guide
the project and measure
success.
Place
Process
Explains the outputs to be
produced and the expected
process and skills to deliver
these.
Place Roles Explains the people who
will contribute to the
success of the place.
Place
Delivery
Confirms the expectations
regarding the construction
of the place.
Place
Manage-
ment
Explains expectations
regarding management
and maintenance of the
place.

4. ▸ Elements of a good map
▸ a descriptive title
▸ the map itself, including appropriate
symbolisation of geographic features
▸ a legend that explains the geographic
symbols
▸ the map scale
▸ the map projection
▸ a north arrow (or compass) up the page
▸ copyright, source and publisher
statements.
ASSIGNMENT FEEDBACK: SITE PLAN
Arch Lane, Brisbane City, QLD, AUS

5. Darling Quarter, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW, AUS
▸ Evidence of PlaceCheck v Site Characteristics
▸ Use of the Empathy Map and user surveys
▸ References used by most
▸ Annotations
▸ Integrated photos of site and ideas
▸ Clarity of information – style and graphics
(design)
▸ Only one included the river on plan
▸ Double side print – maximum impact
▸ Hand drawn – ink rather than pencil
▸ Overlay site plan over aerial
FEEDBACK: SITE CHARACTERISTICS

6. Rabbit + Cocoon, 23 Hillcrest Parade, Miami, Gold Coast, QLD, AUSFlinders St, Townsville, QLD, AUS
PLACECHECK
▸ How can we make this a more special place?
▸ How can we make this a greener place?
▸ How can the streets and other public spaces be
made safer and more pleasant for people on foot?
▸ How else can public spaces be improved?
▸ How can we make the place more welcoming and
easier for people to find their way around?
▸ How can the place be made adaptable to change in
the future?
▸ How can better use be made of resources?
▸ What should be done to make the most of public
transport?
▸ How can routes be made better connected

7. THE BRIEF: ANALYSIS TOOLS - CONSULTANTS
▸ http://www.placefocus.com/
Place-Tools/context.html
▸ Place Audit
▸ Walk Score
▸ Development Proposition
▸ Psychographic Profiling
▸ Archive Research
▸ Accessibility Analysis
▸ Behaviour Observation
▸ Building Age Profile
▸ Character Appraisal
▸ Safety Audit
▸ Legibility Analysis
▸ Mapping
▸ Ped-Shed Analysis
▸ Space Syntax Analysis
▸ Surveys
▸ Tissue Analysis
▸ Transportation and Traffic
Modelling
▸ Urban Design Audit
▸ Urban Morphology
▸ Walk-Through Analysis

8. Nocturnal - City of Greater Dandenong, VIC, AUS (Jason Edwards Photography)
▸ Plenty of different ideas –recommendations
and brief development
▸ Not just place activation – hard infrastructure
FEEDBACK: IDEAS

9. Ruthven St, Toowoomba, QLD, AUS
▸ Depth - link to site characteristics
▸ Breadth – more that 3...
▸ Opportunities not just problems – perspective
▸ Is the noise from the freeway a big issue
FEEDBACK: CONCLUSIONS

10. Currie St, Nambour, QLD, AUS
PLACEMARK
Public realm: buildings and infrastructure support the place
Legibility: navigable and still interesting
WAlkable: people before private vehicles
Context: celebrate unique characteristics
Environment: sustain and enhance
Safety: help us understand risk to support safe behaviour

11. Lane off Winn St, The Valley, Brisbane. QLD, AUS
▸ Link to conclusions and ideas
▸ Breadth – more that 3..
▸ Depth – who, time, $
▸ Who pays e.g. acoustic treatment?
▸ Use of themes “The Market Place”, “Muse and
Booze”, “The Little lane with massive appeal”
MY PLACE: RECOMMENDATIONS

12. RECOMMENDATIONS
Idea LQC/HSE Champion Can I? Merit
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
▸ LQC: Lighter Quicker
Cheaper
▸ HSE: Heavy Slow,
Expensive
▸ Champion: public or
private
:
▸ Can I influence this?
(Yes or No)
▸ Merit (1 being low, 5
being high)
:

13. RECOMMENDATIONS
*Insert the number of the idea
from the previous sheet
▸ Evidence: do we have the data
or understand the problem?
▸ What: do we need to do?
▸ Budget: how much will we
need to spend?
▸ Time: how long should it
take?
▸ Who: is responsible (do we
have the ability)
▸ Me: What can I do?
▸ Success: how will we
measure success
Idea* Evidence What Budget Time Who Me Success

14. THE BRIEF:
Place
Context
Provides a summary of your
site
Place
Aspiration
Provides the aspiration for
Lamington Drive to guide
the project and measure
success.
http://www.plac
efocus.com/bann
er-menu/place-
aspiration.html
Your first
assignment
(ideas)
One or two succinct pages that answers
these questions:
1. What is the groups aspiration for
Lamington Drive – vision, aims,
objectives, principles?
2. What are the benchmark places which
demonstrate your aspiration?
Place
Process
Explains the outputs to be
produced and the expected
process and skills to deliver
these.
Place Roles Explains the people who will
contribute to the success of
the place.
Place
Delivery
Confirms the expectations
regarding the construction
of the place.
Place
Manage-
ment
Explains expectations
regarding management and
maintenance of the place.

15. ▸ Producing a vision:
▸ “Postcard from the future”
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE
Beaudesert Rd, Moorooka, QLD, AUS

16. Goyder Square, Palmerston City, NT, Australia
▸ Producing objectives:
▸ What’s important?
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

17. The Entrance Road, Long Jetty, NSW, AUS
▸ Producing objectives:
▸ What’s important?
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

18. ▸ Benchmarks
▸ What places might be
considered best practice for
the Drive
▸ Refer to your idea generation
for assignment one
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE
The Esplanade, St Kilda, Melbourne, AUS

19. THE BRIEF:
Place
Context
Provides a summary
of your site
Place
Aspiration
Provides the aspiration
for Lamington Drive to
guide the project and
measure success.
Place
Process
Explains the outputs to
be produced and the
expected process and
skills to deliver these.
http://www.placefocus.co
m/banner-menu/place-
process.html
http://www.placefocus.co
m/Place-Roles/urban-
design-team.html
1. What do you propose be
achieved (outputs) and by
when (time-frame)?
2. How (using what process)
will you achieve outputs
at Lamington Drive?
3. What skills and resources
are required?
Place Roles Explains the people
who will contribute to
the success
Place
Delivery
Confirms expectations
regarding construction
Place
Manage-
ment
Explains expectations
regarding
management and
maintenance

20. Youth Activity Precinct, Geelong, VIC, AUS
5. PLACE CREATION

21. 5. THE PROCESS OF PLACEMAKING (HOW)
1. Place Aspiration
2. Place Context
3. Place Design
4. Place Delivery
5. Place Manage
Enquiry by Design (Deicke Richards)

22. 5.3 PLACE DESIGN
▸ Plan and design the place by
1. creating the urban structure
2. making connections
3. detailing the place
4. planning the social fabric
5. considering feasibility and delivery.
▸ All design methods are laden with values
and therefore not necessarily objective.
Like all human thought, there is mystery in design. Fine places develop
from possibility, gained from constantly reframing the problem and by
repeatedly searching for solutions. Revelations help and methods
developed by experience are fundamental.
Lynch & Hack, 1884
Vision workshop

23. 5.3.1 CREATING THE URBAN STRUCTURE
▸ The arrangement of centres, streets, parks and considers density, block size
and uses.
▸ Integration
▸ functional efficiency
▸ environmental harmony
▸ a sense of place
▸ commercial viability
Varsity Station Village, Design Workshop
Concept - Gold Coast (Deicke Richards)

24. ▸ The arrangement of
centres, streets, parks
and considers density,
block size and uses.
▸ Integration
▸ functional efficiency
▸ environmental
harmony
▸ a sense of place
▸ commercial viability
MY PLACE: URBAN STRUCTURE

25. 5.3.2 MAKING THE CONNECTIONS
▸ Footpaths, streets, roads,
rivers, bus ways etc are an
integral part of the urban
fabric, with multiple
functions.
▸ “Streets and their
sidewalks, the main public
places of a city, are its
most vital organs.”
(Jacobs J. , 1961, p. 28)
Papaw Stand – Brisbane, QLD, AUS

26. 5.3.2 MAKING THE CONNECTIONS
▸ Connection outcomes
▸ Linking up
▸ Movement choices
▸ A sense of place
▸ Safe routes for all
▸ The parking problem
▸ Better traffic management
KGUV – Brisbane. Google Earth

27. ▸ Linking up
▸ Movement choices
▸ A sense of place
▸ Safe routes for all
▸ The parking problem
▸ Better traffic
management
MY PLACE: MAKING THE CONNECTIONS

28. 5.3.3 DETAILING THE PLACE
▸ Design the buildings
and the adjacent public
realm and the interface
between them
▸ The devil is often in the
detail
▸ Serendipity and
distinctiveness
The Barracks, Brisbane City, QLD, AUS

29. ▸ The arrangement of
centres, streets, parks
and considers density,
block size and uses.
▸ Integration
▸ functional efficiency
▸ environmental
harmony
▸ a sense of place
▸ commercial viability
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

30. 5.3.4 PLAN FOR SOCIAL FABRIC
▸ Good urban design
understands that the
physical form of a
space is the canvas for
a bigger picture
▸ Strategy development
and implementation
▸ Action orientated
process
▸ “First life, then spaces,
then buildings: the
other way around
never works.” Jan Gehl
Containerval - Macarthur Ave, Northshore, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

31. ▸ Place management
and activation
▸ Strategy development
and implementation
▸ Action orientated
process
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

32. Section 8 Bar, Tatersalls Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
THE BRIEF: DESIGN OUTPUTS - CONSULTANTS
▸ http://www.placefoc
us.com/banner-
menu/design.html
▸ Urban Design
Frameworks
▸ Structure Plans
▸ Masterplan
▸ Prototyping.
▸ Masterplan Report
▸ Design Guidelines
▸ Development Briefs
▸ Site Specific Design
Requirements
▸ Design Statements

33. THE BRIEF: DESIGN OUTPUTS - CONSULTANTS
▸ http://www.placefocus.com/
banner-menu/design.html
▸ Planning and Design Tools
Working Together
▸ Accessibility Action Plan
▸ Community Plan
▸ Concept Plan
▸ Conservation Plan
▸ Covenant
▸ Design Brief
▸ Design Code
▸ Design Guide
▸ Pattern Book
▸ Precinct Plan
▸ Public Art Strategy
▸ Streetscape Plan
▸ Streetscape Strategy
▸ Structure Plan
▸ Technical Guidance Note
▸ Urban Design Strategy
▸ Walking and Cycling
Strategy

34. SKILLS: URBAN DESIGN TEAM
▸ funding and delivery
▸ consultation
▸ demographics and psychographic
profiling
▸ environmental
▸ Lighting, air and acoustic
engineering
▸ sustainability
▸ industry sector consultants
▸ property market analysis
▸ housing affordability
▸ cultural heritage
▸ public art consultants
▸ development consultants
▸ Leasing
▸ Maintenance
▸ (urban design)
▸ urban planning
▸ architecture
▸ landscape design
▸ project management
▸ statutory planning
▸ production
(report + graphics)
▸ engineering, contamination and
site
services
▸ transport and movement
planning (parking)
▸ community development
▸ social planning
▸ economic development and
property demand North Tce – Adelaide, SA, AUS

35. Baxter Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
SKILLS: PLACE ACTIVATION
▸ Events
▸ Popup Placemaking
▸ Marketing
▸ Promotion
▸ Enabling
▸ Empowering

36. THE BRIEF:
Place
Context
Provides a summary
of your site
Place
Aspiration
Provides the aspiration
for Lamington Drive to
guide the project and
measure success.
Place
Process
Explains the outputs to
be produced and the
expected process and
skills to deliver these.
http://www.placefocus.co
m/banner-menu/place-
process.html
http://www.placefocus.co
m/Place-Roles/urban-
design-team.html
1. What do you propose be
achieved (outputs) and by
when (time-frame)?
2. How (using what process)
will you achieve outputs
at Lamington Drive?
3. What skills and resources
are required?
Place Roles Explains the people
who will contribute to
the success
Place
Delivery
Confirms expectations
regarding construction
Place
Manage-
ment
Explains expectations
regarding
management and
maintenance

37. 5.3 PLACE DESIGN
▸ Design process
▸ Jockeying for
power?
▸ Iterative
process
▸ Prototype –
instant
feedback
▸ Specialised
skills +
facilitation skills

38. 5. PLACE CREATION
Ballast Pt Park, Balmain, Sydney, NSW, AUS

39. NEXT WEEK
Place Context Provides a summary of your site
Place
Aspiration
Provides the aspiration for
Lamington Drive to guide the
project and measure success.
Place
Process
Explains the outputs to be
produced and the expected
process and skills to deliver these.
Place Roles Explains the people who will
contribute to the success of the
place.
http://www.placefocus.com/Pla
ce-Roles/place-focus.html
One or two succinct pages that answers
these questions:
1. Who is the client and who is their
representative?
2. Who is the project champion?
3. Who are the stakeholders
4. What are the engagement
expectations?
5. Who are the existing and future users
and their requirements?
Place
Delivery
Confirms the expectations
regarding the construction of the
place.
Place
Manage-ment
Explains expectations regarding
management and maintenance of
the place.