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Placemaking aka Place-Making
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Creating great Gathering Places involves a number of sensibilities:
Natural or Man-made Environmental Features - such as water features, lakes, fountains, and the like. With water for example, whatever the magic quality of water may be, is hard to say. But water does captivate us in its calming influence, its natural feeling.
Daypart/Weekpart Utilization Strategies - that maximize revenue, and, incorporation of third-party intellectual property, if appropriate.
Meeting Places - when we look around us, many of the most rich and enjoyable experiences are the meeting places - not only the cafes and city squares, but lakeshores, beaches, forests - all the places we go to commune in one way or another. It is as much the meeting places, as with the restaurants, stores, and pubs, that form our richest communal experiences;
A Sense of Place - a wonderful simple yet intangible feeling made up of a complex tapestry of many things - at once an experience of the moment, as well as feelings for the place's history, romance, and role in our community. Cultivating a sense of place is our highest objective;.
Places for People - most of the master planning done for communities, buildings, and other projects, is typically initiated with "bubble diagrams" that proceed to land use plans, and ultimately are fine-tuned with zoning and plat maps. Because of the interest in moving a project along, typically very little time is spent on how customers, guests, tenants, or residents, will actually experience the place being designed, in the sequence of moments, events, and activities that will comprise the overall experience.
Spacial Relationships - as we all continually experience where we are, often our sense of place is more based on the spatial boundaries that exist, than the actual buildings themselves. just as movement, dance, life, harmony, gesture, and other dynamic life qualities interest us as human beings, the same interest can be derived if like qualities are designed into buildings and spacial relationships. As well, human beings move through space and it is through movement that the essential means of experiencing place occurs.
The Senses - we all know a picture is worth a thousand words. But we can't forget also that a smell like mown grass can take us back to childhood afternoons, and music can take us directly to a cherished moment of our past. When all the senses are engaged together, we experience truly notable experiences. Design that nourishes all the senses is design optimized.
Related Topics
About Great Streets
About Gathering Places
About Guest Trip Motivation
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