Socio-Behavioural at Urban Space Waterfront Case Study: Sugar Beach, Toronto, Canada Student’s Name Registration Number Class Title
URBAN SPACE WATERFRONT, are an integrated element of the development of
Prayogo Widyarangga 201989786 Cultural and Behavioural Factors in Architecture and Urbanism (AB 988) BEACH AREA (BEHAVIOURAL CONTEMPLATING SETTING)
human inhabitancy in an urban context. Watercourses such as lake, river, and ocean are together with their following edges control a significant role within the urban environment structure. Waterfronts locations responsively create an interrelationship with the surrounding architectural design, spatial requirement, segmentation of public transport and straightforwardly associate with the inner working of the urban environment. In addition, urban space at waterfronts eventually reflect current citizen cultural and social values.
CASE STUDY: SUGAR BEACH, TORONTO, CANADA
The presence of the pink umbrellas is contributing a significant potential to evolve the territorial behaviour which is to claim people’s ownership and become a natural boundary of each person who is standing or sitting on the beach chair under the umbrella. The distance between one umbrella to the other also can control the level of proximity relationships and it indicates on the category of social space (> 1.2 meters and < 3.7 meters). Moreover, the configuration of that beach chair (side to side) is also presenting an personal and intimate space (< 1.2 meters) between them.
PROMENADE AREA (BEHAVIOURAL CONTEMPLATING SETTING)
Sugar Beach in Toronto, Canada is a urban space regeneration at waterfronts which transform the Readpath Sugar Factory’s derelict space into well designed public open space. Sugar Beach has two sepcial main area which is promenade and beach space, and both area is providing many urban furniture (physical attributes) such as benches, trees, lamp lights. pink umbrellas, big outcropping rock (as an amphitheatre and mini stage), and water fountains. Responsively, all of the physical design elements are influencing the visitor behaviour such as their privacy, personal space and territoriality.
The presence of the benches along the promenade and the differences of the ground level between the wood promenade floor and beach area are providing a variety of visitor activities, proximity relationships and territory instantly. The sitting position of people is also giving an intention of interacting with the surrounding. If they are sitting closely on the single bench without enough space, it means that they are creating an intimate space and enlarge the range of their territorial, vice versa. However, all the open space area in this case is influenced by the diversity of human cultural and behavioural aspects.