The course is designed for students in the 3rd year (semester 6) where in this semester they have already gained a considerable amount of urban experiences through courses taken in their previous education and training such as ‘Urban History’ course and ‘Urban Settlement and Area Design’ course.
An overall aim of the ‘Urban Architecture Design’ course is to facilitate learning process through which students have an understanding about the importance of urban spaces for their inhabitant either as a place for social gathering, culture actualization or recreational/leisure facilities. From that students have abilities to propose design of urban space based on the analysis of urban form quality and the design concepts of urban space.
The task is designed for a group task consists of 4-5 students. Students can choose urban spaces they will work on which could either be public open space, street space or combination between public open space and street space. For the task, students are asked to submit a re-designed and revitalized proposal or hand in for a new designed proposal. The urban space they will work with should consider:
- Its roles both by forms and functions.
- Design quality principles in a responsive environment such as permeability, variety, legibility, robustness, richness, visual appropriateness, and personalisation (depends on the importance priority).
- Should be fitted with townscape design concept such as application of serial vision (fit with theme or spatial experiences offered, urban forms and buildings skyline, façades, scale and proportion in urban spaces, and visual continuity).
- Building codes and regulations.
- Context and possibly innovative design creativity.
In the task, students can add new elements to propose urban space arrangement for example by adding open spaces, connected streets, public arts or other physical elements as long as it can be used to assert the concepts.
Supporting elements such as LIGHTING (natural and artificial) can support for visual richness because of viewing time differences, VIEWING DISTANCE (in relation to hierarchy of scale and viewing distance), and VIEWING TIME (related to the complexity of details), KINETIC ART (sequence of arts which can be enjoyed by movements)
Proposed design concepts are based on the analysis of findings, which should be based on theories for analysing urban spaces such as:
- Theory of city image, interrelatedness among urban image elements (Lynch, K., 1960)
- Theory about elements for shaping and supporting urban districts (Shirvani, H., 1985)
- Theory about how understanding urban space through spatial experiences (Curran, R.J., 1983)
- Theory of responsive environment (Bentley, I., et.al., 1985)
- Theory of urban spatial design (Trancik, R., 1987)
- Theory of townscape design (Cullen, G., 1971)
- Theory of urban space (Krier, R., 1982; Moughtin, C., 1992; Madanipour, A., 1995; Llewelyn-Davies, 2000)
- Other theories, which are thought will be useful for design proposal.
SITES OF URBAN SPACE
Urban space sites can be picked among:
1. Part of ‘Tugu’ rail station district and the surrounding area (consists of 200 meter of Mangkubumi Street – ‘Inna Garuda’ Hotel junction – 200 meter of Malioboro Street) including the arrangement of building around, ‘Tugu’ rail station as a focus.
2. Sudirman Street (from Gramedia intersection to ‘Tugu’ White Statue intersection)
3. ‘Tugu’ White Statue (100 meter to the North-South-East-West) including arragement of building around.
4. North Outer Ringroad from Condongcatur intersection to Casa Grande Housing Complex (to be designed for a Ringroadscape)
5. Historical part of ‘Taman Sari’ Watercastle and the area surrounding (to be designed for historical trail).
6. Part of ‘Colombo’ Street (from the gas station intersection to ‘Mirota Campus’ Supermarket junction) including arrangement of building around.
7. Part of North Public Square including the building around (from the Post Office intersection to the Palace)
8. Part of ‘Adi Sucipto’ street (from the ‘Janti’ junction to the ‘Islamic State University’ junction.
FINAL PRODUCT: to propose design of urban space
ASSESSMENT: based on the progress being made during the process of task, final product, and individual/group presentation. Presentation should include:
- Short description of design object, identification of potency-problems from the study case
- Analysis (based on the theory)
- Design concepts (based on the findings)
- Drawings of design proposal and public art detailed
SUBMISSION:
Soft copy of final product per group should be submitted on the final examination of Urban Architecture Design course in Spring Semester 2008/2009.
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