The Concise Townscape

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What earthly reason is there why a backwater in a country town should be flooded with a sea of tarmac and the pedestrian area reduced to a tiny fenced-in island floating like a piece of flotsam in the ocean. But the question of cultural continuity requires these and other strands to be brought into dialogue with one another, and there is much to be gained in reflecting on how they interrelated. Dynamic viewpoints from moving vehicles: Clients want to see design outcomes from 1,000 locations under 100 options – our technology lets you walk, bike, fly or drive through the simulated environment from any angle or direction. In short, utilising the concept of serial vision by Gordon Cullen can lead to urban environments that are visually engaging, emotionally resonant, and imbued with a deep sense of place, improving the quality of life for inhabitants.

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The scene at the moment is not aimless but is made to appear so by the confusion of floor surfaces and changes of levels.Urban CGI simulations let you ‘walk’ through an urban environment under a wide range of conditions, experiencing unlimited serial views as you navigate access routes. The actual focus of interest, the steps of the cross around which people congregate, is decisively isolated by concrete posts and flower beds.

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Our CGI simulation lets you visualise the transition from confined space towards the open landscape. Holding a PhD in Design-based Planning Systems, Ben’s thesis explored form-based urban design and planning. A most unchristian activity with which the moneys and good intentions of Festival year should never have been connected.

Improved navigation, legibility, and wayfinding: Legibility plays a vital role in urban design, aiding ‘readability’ and ensuring people can make sense of an environment. These Urban CGI examples depict lift and stairwell access within Hallam railway station, Melbourne, Australia, with the fritted glass partially screening views and reducing sunlight and glare. However, as Williams notes, the AR’s egalitarianism existed simultaneously and in tension with a conservative ‘aristocratic world-view’, where the city as an aesthetic object acted as a source of spectacular pleasure for the privileged observer. It will be argued that the staggering coherence of richly layered historical settlements rests upon “unwritten – but uncompromising – rules and laws of cohesion and relation within the urban fabric” (Paolo Marconi, 1997).