Course Content
Analysis and synthesis of spatial conditions
This part of the course will first discuss issues related to urban space, and urban design methodology. Then during the workshop, under the guidance of the Trainers, your task will be to prepare spatial analyses. Each group of analyses will be accompanied by step-by-step questions to help you with their implementation. The tutors are available online all the time during the workshop and ready to help you. After the workshop, you will send the material to the designated cloud address. After reviewing the material, the Tutor will give you a correction of the presented material during the individual online consultation, but this is not an evaluation. Evaluation of this part will take place during the final discussion.
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Project assumptions and inspiration
After we have familiarized ourselves with the conditions, identified the problems, and noted the possibilities of the site, in design we move on to establishing design assumptions. We will revolve around terms and policies and strategies from various fields related to sustainable development. As in the previous task, first there will be an introduction, then a workshop during which you and your partners will prepare design assumptions, look for inspiration. The next step will be feedback and this topic will close with a joint presentation.
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Implementation of the project
In this phase of the module, we move on to the actual design. The phase is divided into two phases, during which three workshops will be held. In the first phase, we will answer the question: Where do we start designing in a comprehensive urban design project? It will conclude with a discussion and closure of the concept. The next phase and workshop will focus on the technical finishing of drawings according to technical standards. And the final workshop will be the development of the public space concept, model and presentation.
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Urban design glossary
Here you will find the concepts that appear on the course and with which you should be familiar. These terms will appear in the quizzes, but you should also use them in your discussion or presentation, as this will be one of the things we will pay attention to.
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Urban Design – Sustainable Downtown Area In the City
About Lesson

Site Plan

We prepare the site development project in accordance with the standards for technical drawing.

Graphic indications used in land development projects (PN-B-01027) sample pages, copyright document. Available in the library.

Plans are prepared as a black and white drawing.

Projects of BUT students.

We produce them on a geodetic base, using their partial transparency for design purposes. An essential part of the task is to maintain the legibility of the elements in accordance with the standards, however.

Section

When drawing cross-sections, we remember that this form has to be somehow connected with the place in the plan, so we remember to mark the place of the cross-section on the plan and already on the cross-section drawing itself we place the street axes and write their name. We do the same with the river. We mark the buildings we have crossed with height anchors.

Authors: BUT students

Showing what happens in the background of the cross-section. It is important that it does not interfere with our perception, bold lines in accordance with the convention of technical urban drawing facilitate this. We can apply the so-called aerial perspective by using lines of lesser thickness or grey scale. Avoid cross-sections from programs that show objects all over the model and reduce or impede the legibility of the model.

Frontage of the street

The street line is a cross-sectional line in the case of frontages. Depending on the scale, the detail of the elements on the building facades should be adjusted. Remember that it is not an art to prepare extremely detailed frontages as this will not be visible at the target scale or will directly work against the drawings. Remember that a frontage is not a perspective drawing but a vertical representation, so elements such as roofs will look like drawings in the façade.