Water jets - in or out...

Precedent images from Bordeaux Riverfront (top), and Granary Square, Kings cross. Both look pretty nice I think, but is Tunbridge Wells ready for it?? Jamie thinks not...

1:200 Design Freeze

So this week marks the point at which we have reached a design freeze in the 1:200 phase, for most anyway! For me, I feel like I have a lot of resolving still to go on my plan to get the design right before I can stop playing around with it. Just as I think it's moving in the right direction I seem to take another step back. In general I'm fairly happy with the shapes and the linking circulation, but I seem to be lacking content for the spaces, with my main concern being athe park ending up with a lot of bleak empty open space. Not ideal.

Introduce some water jets, and areas for water to collect and form mirror pools, yesterday morning was a great idea, buy yesterday afternoon what was I thinking!...

This week has to be the week I get my plan into a position I am 100% (well at least 90 something %) happy with (make it 80 something)...

We're also producing lighting and drainage overlays this week, but clearly I need everything resolved and where I want it to be so that the new overlays make sense. I feel a couple of late nights coming on...

Area selected for 1:200 progression (inside magenta rectangle)

Zooming in - 1:200

So moving on from the 1:500 masterplans we are now concentrating on a smaller area of the site, zooming in to a 1:200 scale to pick up on and refine some of the detail. At 1:200 a lot more of the detail of the site is visible and so needs to be worked through and resolved. We set about producing a number of overlays of the 1:200 chosen area, these overlays are then analyse to see what of the 1:500 detail works, and which bits might need a bit of adapting.