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LIVING STREETS DESIGN GUIDE WORKSHOP DECEMBER 2021 Safe Designed to create safe and secure environments.
Peter Smith Infrastructure Planning and Development Consultant
In December 2021, IPWEAQ particpated in an Industry Workshop for the DesignLed City: Living Streets Design Guide currently being developed by Brisbane City Council. Development of the Living Streets Design Guide is one of the actions from the “Planning for Brisbane’s Future: Design-led City – A design strategy for Brisbane”, released in late 2019. Design-led City – A design strategy for Brisbane (the design strategy) outlines Council’s commitment to ensuring quality design that reflects Brisbane’s character, identity and climate is delivered across all elements of the built environment. This includes all public and private development, parks and open spaces, streets, buildings, supporting infrastructure, structures and the spaces between them. The workshop provided a Project Overview, including the Design Guide development and structure and how the Guide is intended to be used. It also included two workshop exercises, firstly to review the Design Guide content and then to prioritise design outcomes, with particular attention to the following design values adopted in the design strategy.
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Inclusive Designed to welcome people of all backgrounds, abilities, ages, genders and cultures. Green Designed to enhance and connect to green infrastructure and provide greenspace for people, wildlife and biodiversity. Comfortable Designed to create a comfortable experience by reflecting the human scale in terms of bulk, proportion, detail and enclosure. Resilient Designed to be adaptable and responsive to future changes in society, climate and technology. Responsive Designed to make a positive contribution to the community and place by responding to the site and context. Sense of place Designed to have an identity that reflects the context, heritage, and culture of people and place. Subtropical Designed to celebrate our subtropical climate and outdoor lifestyle.
Efficient Designed to be functional, easily maintained and reflect the whole-of-life costs and benefits. Reinforcing the design strategy’s aim “to achieve a people-centric approach to design, delivery and maintenance of the built environment”, the Living Streets Design Guide principally focuses on centres and main streets and the interactions between the users and between the users and the built form. The workshop structure split the attendees into groups, with each group focusing on aspects of different main street/centre types, with particular attention to the design values and reporting their observations and recommendations to the broader group. The draft design guide is currently not available for public distribution as Council is in the process of revising the draft design guide in response to this industry feedback and will be advising when further industry input/consultation is to occur. Strategic design context
Connected Designed to facilitate accessible connections to and through a place. Diverse Designed to encourage different options and many opportunities for people to enjoy themselves. Healthy Designed to encourage physical activity, including active travel, and social connections.
Shaping the strategy Design of the built environment was identified as being important to Brisbane’s future during 2017-18 citywide
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