Responsive Environments
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a presentation on the 7 elements on responsive environments...
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Responsive Environments
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The design of the environment can greatly greatly aect the choices people mak make e at dierent levels. It aects where people can go, the range of uses available, the understanding of these choices, the degree to which people can use dierent spaces of choice, and so on. Thus, the design of environments where people go, work, and interact with each other must be responsive.
Responsive environments
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Places that provide their users with an essentially democratic democratic setting, enriching their opportunities by maximizing the degree of choice available to them.
The concept of responsive environments environments focuses on what features make make an environment responsive to the needs of its users .
Ian Bentley and his colleagues have developed a set of guidelines which they claim make an environment responsive to the needs of its users. They do this using the following concepts !ermeability "ariety #egibility Robustness "isual appropriateness Richness !ersonali$ation
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!ermeability %the property of how easy it is to move through an environment and depends heavily upon the paths and ob&ects placed within the space %relates to the way that a design aects where people can go and cannot go within a city district “The urban designer must always consider permeability rst because it involves pedestrian and vehicle circulation within the city district as a whole. The greater the number of alternative routes through an environment, the greater peoples freedom of movement and, therefore,
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!laces must be accessible to people to oer them choice. !ublic and private access must be complimentary. !hysical and visual permeability depends on how the network of public space divides the environment into blocks. There is a decline in public permeability because of current design trends scale of development' hierarchal layout' and segregation.
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!rovision of paths*streets and its eective layout promote good
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This type of building design does not allow much permeability in which case accessibility is not easy and so may cause the people to feel
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"ariety
"ariety %refers to the range of uses that a place provides +e.g. housing, shopping, employment, recreation, and so forth %refers to the range of activities, people and building forms which can be found in a space The varied nature of people, forms and activities will create a range of meanings and in turn the meanings may in"uence the variety of options available. #asily accessible places are of little use if their choice of experiences is limited. “The aim is to maximize the variety of uses for a given pro$ect by, rst, demonstrating how one can assess the level of demands for various uses and, then, determining the widest
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"ariety oers users a choice of e(periences. "ariety of e(perience implies places with varied forms, uses, and meanings. -nfortunately, developers and planners are more concerned with economic performance and easier management than with variety.
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"ariety depends on main factors range of activities/ demand' possibility of supplying aordable space' e(tent to which design encourages positive interactions. it also depends on feasibility% economic, political, and functional
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0i(ed/use buildings and blocks are a good e(ample of places that oer
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Business and commercial centres also oer a choice of uses and
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The 1venue des 2hamps/Elysees, one of the most famous streets in the world is a place where many things come together. Retail stores and shops, dining and drinking establishments, o3ces, residential and
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The Bonifacio 6igh 7treet in Taguig oer a variety of e(periences to the people from shopping, dinking
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0alls are one of the most common public spaces that oer a variety of uses and activities to people. 0alls also help establish ad&acent spaces and buildings outside it that further adds to the variety of uses the area
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#egibility %is how easy it is for a person to construct a mental map of their environment and depends to a large e(tent to the form of the environment and the activities people undertake %relates to the ease with which people can understand the spatial layout of a place 8The designer should determine and en hance the perceptual clarity of the paths, landmar&s, boundaries, and so forth that have emerged through the consideration of permeability and
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9egree of choice depends on how legible it is' how layout is understood #egibility is important at two levels' physical form and activity patterns #egibility In the old days/ important buildings stood out
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legibility of form and use is reduced In the modern environment 7eparating pedestrians from vehicles also reduces legibility #egibility is strengthened by #ynch:s physical elements of the city
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The layout of the city can be easily understood and important buildings stand out and serves as a landmark. 'arcelona, (pain.
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In the older days, important public buildings were more legible than private buildings.
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;odes also help establish a good
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The use of cul de sacs to de
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