Design Strategy For A Skywalk At The Royal Oak Campus

Urban planning is an important aspect of city life, especially in light of today’s dynamic economy and environment. With increasing levels of crime, pollution, and environmental degradation, many cities are looking for new solutions to solve these. Large influences on the ideas that are shaping urban planning today come from urban theorist, Jane Jacobs. Jacobs challenged the way urban planners, architects, urban designer and sociologist thought about cities. In order to solve “the kind of problem which cities pose”, Jacobs promotes the idea of the use of sidewalks includes three majors. It is about city sidewalk safety and sidewalk contacts. Jacobs wrote that “there must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street.” Through analyzing and observing such things as city streets and sidewalks, neighborhood parks within a city and what Jacobs refers to as “the four generators of diversity”, Jacobs has developed theories that can guide city planners, architects, urban designer and most

We decided to build a multi-story parking lot around the SAIT campus as there is less parking space for the students and it takes very long in the morning to find a parking space. So, the purpose of this project is to provide an idea to SAIT for building another parking lot for convenience of students. In order to do that we are going to perform Phase 1 and Phase 2.

Babcock Place is an apartment building that offers subsidized rent 150 senior citizens. Babcock Place looks directly out to Constitution Avenue, which is a major thoroughfare. Senior citizens residing at Babcock Place would like to be able to cross the street safely. Unfortunately, this is not easy without a crosswalk. Residents of Babcock Place have reported numerous instances where their friends and neighbors have had a very hard time crossing Constitution Avenue. The reason many of them chose the area is that it is predominantly all residential and it is close to

West Chester University’s ongoing attempts to meet the needs of the student body’s various demographics are commendable, but some areas and services should be granted priority due to their more numerous natures’ and relatively minimal cost. Some of the ones being readily addressed are the constraints of and accessibility to various academic buildings on West Chester’s campus. These include but are not limited to:

Although Claflin University provides a safe environment for its students, there are many dangers in the surrounding city of Orangeburg. It is essential for the city of Orangeburg to address the dangerous crosswalks for walkers because college students are putting their lives at risks by walking to local restaurants. Also, it is illegal for college students to walk across the railroad tracks and students are forced to seek alternative ways to their destinations. There are several of solutions to this problem, but they will only work if Claflin University and the city of Orangeburg collaborate.

The SUNY Rockland Community College Technology Building is a large, square building with high picture walls. It is one of the first buildings a visitor is likely to encounter upon arriving at the campus, given that it houses the administrative functions of the college, along with several academic departments. The multifaceted nature of the building is exemplified in its large size and generic appearance. Were the building uniquely stylized and adorned to indicate that it houses for example the nursing department, this might detract from the other functions the building serves for members of the college community. The form of the building is both imposing yet relatively nondescript, and can be 'all things to all people.' It is also highly visible from all over the campus. This is not an unimportant feature of a main 'portal'-style building that is designed to welcome students and visitors alike to SUNY-Rockland. If someone was lost or uncertain about how to proceed through the campus, it would be very easy to find this building to seek assistance. Virtually every student must make his or her way through the Technology Building, during his or her tenure on the campus.

We were asked to create a prototype of ITW David Speer to show how we would minimize traffic around the area. ITW has a maximum density of 80 pc/ln/hr; it’s at a Los F which is the worse possible congestion you could experience. It faces the most congestion on the main streets such as Laramie, Grand and Central. We are also improving the health in humans such as stress levels through this new design. We must test and evaluate our results to ensure it meets the restrictions of it being Los F to becoming Los C or above. In order to improve all this we were given a budget of 2 million dollars.

The focus of this assessment is to identify safety concerns about the physical structures of the University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown campus. Throughout the assessment there were several safety issues that were noted those which include but are not limited to lack of ramps, proximity of buildings, placement of cameras, parking lot safety, place of emergency evacuation chairs, placements of fire extinguishers and AED’s. It is very important to be aware of safety concerns students, faculty, and staff may encounter to keep the university not only safe but also secure.

The author Jeff Speck is city planner and an urban designer. He is trying to save Americans lives by trying to make the city more walkable since automobiles have now become a great danger to the Americans. This book is more concerned with cars and buildings in order to achieve the goal of a walkable city. People are the lifeblood of the city and not cars therefore, in order to pull off the feat of ushering America to the urban century, there is need to prove to people that walkability is important and also that their actions and decisions will help will to improve this aspect.

When students are trying to get to class on time or even slightly early and the parking lot is full, this becomes increasingly more difficult to find a spot. To discover and verify the problems with Crounse’s parking lot, we gathered data from not only the parking lot itself, but the student and faculty body as well. From here we analyzed the data collected and developed viable solutions to the issues at Crounse Hall’s parking area.

Originally, I predicted that I would only mark two waypoints. Both waypoints I marked were on the sidewalk along the campus side of College Ave. One was along the brick wall behind Redifer Commons, there is a crack in the sidewalk almost all the way across, that is very uneven making it hard to traverse in a wheelchair. The second was in front of Stephens Hall, there is an entire

The sloping orientation of the landscape maximises public space whilst having a relatively small footprint. Some roofing areas of the building

In 1857, the Central Park Commission held the country’s first landscape design contest and selected the “Greensward Plan,” submitted by Frederick Law Olmsted, the park’s superintendent at the time, and Calvert Vaux, an English-born architect and former partner of the popular landscape gardener, Andrew Jackson Downing. The designers sought to create a pastoral landscape in the English romantic tradition. Open rolling meadows contrasted with the picturesque effects of the Ramble and the more formal dress grounds of the Mall (Promenade) and Bethesda Terrace. In order to maintain a feeling of uninterrupted expanse, Olmsted and Vaux sank four Transverse Roads eight feet below the park’s surface to carry cross-town traffic. Responding to pressure from local critics, the designers also revised their plan’s circulation system to separate carriage drives, pedestrian walks, and equestrian paths. Vaux, assisted by Jacob Wrey Mould, designed more than forty bridges to eliminate grade crossings between the different routes.

Although many factors contributed to the collapse of the walkways, the biggest contributor was the design. A few investigations ran but one done by National Bureau of Standards (NBS) came to a number of conclusions. Firstly, the collapse of the walkways happened under the action of loads that were noticeably less than the design loads specified by the Kansas City Building Code (Marshall, 1982). Secondly, as constructed, the beam-rod connections, the fourth floor to ceiling rods, and the third floor walkway rods did not satisfy the design requirements of the Kansas City Building Code (Marshall, 1982). Thirdly, under the original, continuous, rod arrangement, Figure 1, the beam-rod connections would have had the ability to resist the loads calculated to have been acting at the time of collapse (Marshall, 1982). And lastly, it was also found that neither the quality of workmanship nor the resources used in the walkways had a major role in starting the collapse (Marshall, 1982).

The TD West Tower is a part of a cluster of buildings that make up the Toronto-Dominion Centre. It was erected in 1974 at the northeast corner of York and Wellington in downtown Toronto with 32 storeys and over 515,00 sq. ft. [1] It was designed by Bregman + Hamann under the guidance of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Its located in the Financial District where nearly all the buildings follow the same vernacular typology, especially those inside the Toronto-Dominion Centre. The tower has been awarded the BOMA Best Green Certification along with being one of the first office buildings in Toronto to be certified LEED Platinum under the Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance program. [1]