Components of Urban Design

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• Components of Urban Design

Theme D Social Issues
KTH School of Architecture and the Built
Environment Saeed, Sun April 2007
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• Vision Statement

• Improve the quailty of public life

• Social important factors
• -Identity
• Families
• Nature
• Local enterprises

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Site Analysis
Årsta torg public place, important for identity
Garden city Distinction between public and
private
Divided public spaces
Tunnel
Sandsfjärgatan only for cars
Undefined public places
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SWOT Analysis

• Strengths
• Strong sense of belonging to the place among
  people in Årsta
• A mixture of people with different economy level
  

• Opportunities
• Create a new public place linking old Årsta torg
  to Valla torg
• Generating new identity for southern area by
  densifying and promoting streets

• Weaknesses
• Ambiguity of public and private in
  Sandsfjärgatan
• Lack of family houses in Årsta
• Weak idenety of public places

• Threats
• To demote the existing identity of Årsta

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Concept
Existing
Proposal
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Plan proposal
Roundabout is promoted to a square surrounded by
mix-use buildings
New blocks defines the street and inner courtyards
new plaza for Årsta and Valla
A new tram-street with shops in ground floors
SEC 1
SEC 2
Relocate the existing street closer to houses
Transform existing undefined greeneries to
elaborated local parks
Tram stop bridges between Årsta and Enskede gård
an internal public place
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Section 1 New plaza
Section 2 inner courtyards