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The Building(s) & their Facade Design
4.2.2 THE BUILDING(S) & THEIR FACADE DESIGN
In directing focus towards the buildings in investigation, the approached pedestrians within each case study had been asked to share their opinions on the exterior building design of the Montcalm hotel, the Blavatnik building, the Rubens hotel, and the Viacom building respectively. Within this, pedestrians had been given the option to choose if they perceived the building as beautiful, disturbing, or neither. As the number of respondents in each case was different from the other, results presented in figure 4.7 display a percentage value as well as the number of pedestrians. Evidently, more than half of the approached pedestrians within each case perceived the building in question as beautiful. Those who perceived Montcalm East and the Blavatnik building beautiful accounted to double of those who had perceived the building as neither beautiful nor disturbing. Where pedestrians were disturbed by the exterior design of any of the buildings, the Blavatnik building consisted of the highest count compared to the other cases. Moreover, none of the approached pedestrians found the exterior of the Rubens or the Viacom disturbing. In fact, those who perceived the Rubens as beautiful accounted for more than triple of those who found it neither beautiful nor disturbing.
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PEDESTRIANS’ PERCEPTION OF MONTCALM EAST’S, BLAVATNIK’S, RUBENS’ AND VIACOM’S EXTERIOR BUILDING DESIGN
BUILDING(S)
RESPONSES IN PERCENTAGE
However, to better understand how the characteristics of the investigated buildings have influenced pedestrians’ perceived experience, the buildings’ form, features, and dimensions have been identified through design metrics and established into an accordingly descriptive ID via the façade configuration system. The façade design configuration ID of Montcalm East, the Blavatnik building, the Rubens hotel, and the Viacom building are presented in appendices 12, 13, 14, and 15 respectively. The resulting classifications are additionally portrayed in table 4.3. Evidently, the Montcalm East hotel and the Blavatnik building share common characteristics while the Rubens hotel and the Viacom building share other commonalities. The discussion arising from this however will be discussed in later sections.
