Railways park example - Natur Park - Berlin

http://www.flickr.com/photos/90707016@N04/sets/72157632151534571/

Wednesday 14th - Morning Experiment using veins as blue & green 'chains'

 Francesco

Logo Development

Experimenting with our logo, using PhotoShop filters:

Crystallized

Cutout

Posterized

Stamp

European Green Capital

Trying to find examples about cities with sustainable developments I remember my city in Spain, Vitoria, which is the European Green Capital for 2012, so I decided to have a look at cities of other years. There are very good ideas in this cities:

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/europeangreencapital/index_en.htm

- 2010 : Stockholm

- 2011: Hamburg

- 2012: Vitoria

- 2013: Nantes

- 2014: Copenahagen

Leire

Week 6 - Update

Following on from a frustrating end to Week 5, we’ve made some really good progress this week!

As usual, we met as a group before our afternoon tutorials, each armed with sketches and photos we’d been developing over the last week.

Pulling together so many ideas isn’t a straight forward task, but by the end of the day we were all leaning over one (very rough) masterplan, reaching for our Sharpies and bringing everything together!

Last week we were very clear in identifying our three main aims:

1. Bring water from the river into the site

2. Spread the energy surrounding the O2 out through the site

3. Connect the O2 and the Thames Barrier Park

And following on from today’s discussions, we’re now proposing to make the site entirely car free, a first for London! It’s a really exciting proposal that we’re all supporting. Children can play in the streets with their neighbours, just like they used to!

“The most popular place to play for children today is at home, whereas adults said their favourite place to play as youngsters was in the streets” (The Guardian, 2 April 2009)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5089583/Cottonwool-kids-denied-access-to-countryside-warns-Natural-England.html

TUTORIAL FEEDBACK

Consider increasing building density

Remember riverside land is valuable development land

Research tidal range of the Thames (including height of current flood defences)

Wetland canals/channels - with consideration for tidal rise and fall - how will these operate?

Develop undulating topography of the green spine

Integrate further transport links (tram stops, Boris bike stations, street car hubs, cable car western extension, etc)

Consider freecycling / biogas / carbon zero development

SLOGAN IDEAS

1. London’s first car free community

2. Float through/around London’s car free community

Anymore suggestions…?

WORK SCHEDULE FOR WEEK 7

Everyone - Tuesday 6 November 2012 @ 10am – Model making / presentation preparation

Zoe – Finalising historical analysis / sourcing model making materials

Leire – Finalising views analysis / sourcing model making materials

Marine – Drawing up current plan

Francesco – Drawing sections of current plan

Rowan – Finalising analysis layout for presentation / printing base map for model @ 1:2000

Dimitrios – Sourcing model making suppliers / coordinating efficient model making

New concept diagram

I tried to improve the concept diagram after your comments and Benz and Duncan 'ones.
Feel free to say what you think !
Marine

19 october - Ideas Marine

sketch design

Well,

another creative -and therefore busy- Wednesday ended, but this time with most of the members of group six being kind of confused and uncertain regarding our sketch design approach....

There is a strong conceptual idea (fishbone), which can be further explored by an illustration of a leaf full of veins, in a more ecological/environmental friendly approach.

There are basic aims focusing on how the conceptual idea is could be implemented effectively and straight forward, namely;

- bringing the river in

- spreading the energy vibrations of O2 arena

- expanding the Green Chain Walk

However, there is still space for further discussions/debates/thoughts for the character and the principal features of the Greenwich Peninsula.

Let's hope and enough time for filtering, elaborating and refining all these too....

some initial sketch design, scanned from my sketchbook;

Greenwich peninsula

section
(leaning towards right)

section; water canal

sketches/thoughts

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group six

(dimitrios)