Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each demand by whether it belongs to a LANDSCAPE site or an URBAN one.
Groups: Landscape site · Urban site
- Weather, seasons and decay act on the work
- Permission, ownership and maintenance obligations
- Sightlines shared with buildings and signage
- No walls, lighting or fixed viewpoint
- Pedestrian flow and other people's use of the space
- Access may be difficult and infrequent
Hints
- One setting has no infrastructure; the other has too much.
- Anything about other people's purposes for the space is urban.
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Landscape site: Weather, seasons and decay act on the work, No walls, lighting or fixed viewpoint, Access may be difficult and infrequent
Urban site: Pedestrian flow and other people's use of the space, Permission, ownership and maintenance obligations, Sightlines shared with buildings and signage
Why
The urban column is longer in practice than the landscape one, because a city site arrives with functions already attached. A work in a plaza joins a place people are crossing to get somewhere, and that is a design constraint rather than an inconvenience.
Practise Site: Form in Natural and Urban Space
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