Area Designs - revised

Please do live comments if anything is wrong in terms of position, layout, key or .. anything you see worong really...
The Area2 is on two sheets as it has a little more importance and I felt it needed to show more details.
Let me know if you don't feel the same and will try to revert to the normal area layout ...

E&C Before and After

Sketch Design - Revised

Feel free to add comments especially if you spot irregularities in your areas.

Please revise the Legend and send some feedback

E&C design

Based on the earlier plan, here are models and sketches of the agreed E&C design. The main focus would be the new market place/open-air venue. These are also on Skydrive. The space is pushed hard up to the roads on either side with raised sides to form a sort of amphitheatre with entrances cut through. The whole is enclosed by a red 'curtain', incorporating lights (and speakers?). There would be a new bus stop/station between this and the new tube station to the north; new venue to the south (next to the Strata tower which I would dearly love to demolish, but a bit difficult to justify financially!)

And some images:

The curtains would be a sort of combination of the first two pics and misters would be included in the central area for use in performances, or just for fun!



Area 4 - The Auditorium "Circles" : (The Stations) Photos and Sketches

Art by the local school children, a new play area and seating for the Greenway/"Elephant trail" through Hatfields - between Stamford Stree and the Cut - a  largely residential area

 In line with the theme of fashion and millenery for this area, the Greenway/"Elephant trail" on the Cut passes the seasonal monthly costume & theatre fair complete with dressing tents.  The coloured concrete elephants inside the residential green are also visible

 New seating and seasonal fashion show for the Emma Cons Gardens opposite the Old Vic at the junction of the Cut and Waterloo Road.   The location near Waterloo Station attracts crowds to this and various other events and promotes the regeneration of the area

Greenway Sketches - Second try

Elevation Area 4 - Auditorium "the Circles" Update & model

Model images of Area 4, plan and 45 degree angle, facing north and east uploaded to Skydrive folder

Elevation along the Elephant Trail/Greenway in Area 4

Cycling the Greenway - revised

Greenway Before&After

Here is a revised E&C sketch plan based on our discussions yesterday.

This reverts to the historic road layout with the exception of joining up the two 'islands' in the middle. The three stations are visually linked with buses adjacent to the new central tube station. The central space is predominantly a transport hub and market place (like a traditional market town), also serving as public open space and open-air entertainment venue.

I'm not sure the traffic and pedestrian movements quite work at the moment - the idea is that traffic would go north on the western side of the market place and south on the eastern side, but the junction at the top looks rather scary and there may be too many pedestrian crossings, but perhaps that's what we want - it would certainly slow the traffic down! The other areas that aren't quite resolved are the open spaces where the roads have been extended down into the area currently occupied by the roundabout (in front of the college buildings, northern most tube station, and flats), and the design of the southern venue - this ought to terminate the north-south axis, but the relationship to the Strata tower is awkward to resolve.

I love the elephants dotted about the greenway idea, like a linear sculpture park and similar to the dinosaurs at Crystal Palace Park, which pull in loads of visitors:

Elephant Trail greenway

A summary of design decisions for the greenway/cycleway through the site:
- pedestrians and cyclists will have priority along the whole of the route;
- there will also be strictly limited vehicle access (for deliveries, access to businesses, houses, etc.);
- the route should have a large amount of planting, including trees wherever possible;
- planting palette should be consistent for the whole route, although exact combinations may vary from place to place;
- there could be a red and gold theme to the planting inspired by images of theatres;
- the surface should also be the same along the whole route (coloured?) to help define the route's identity;
- we also propose using the elephant as a recurring theme along the route - this could include murals, elephant images on the pavement, benches or other street furniture (play features) that looks like elephants or parts of elephants (e.g. the trunk), or elephant 'sculptures'; some of the elephants would be large and obvious, others could be small and hidden, so people have to look carefully to find them  - everyone enjoys a 'treasure' hunt!
 One of our inspirations for this was the 'Elephant Parade' in London last year (and this year's similar Big Egg hunt) where 260 decorated elephants were placed all over the city...

www.elephantparadelondon.org