Community Architecture: Benefits of Community Design

Community Architecture
COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE is approached more seldom, and even when it

is approached, there is not yet a solid theoretical base or a well-founded concept.
The attitude and also the terminology used are not random and derive from the
actual trends computerization, virtualization, spectacularization, consumerism,
secularization, urbanization, the globalization process, from obeying the ephemeral
and delocalization effects.
The present article aims to introduce the community architecture concept with
references to an interdisciplinary scientific literature, making a step forward
towards the community architecture theory. Today, the community architecture
concept is closely linked to communication, so in the documentation it was
followed the communication by culture relationship under the contemporary
aspects.
The ‘Community Architecture’ is kind of architectural practice between architects

and users. Also, it can be described as architect follow the wish of users or
community to design the building fit the requirement by using local materials and
helps the residents to build the structure.
In general, architect call ‘Conventional Architecture’ product, nevertheless
‘Community Architecture’ represents the process rather than the product and most
proponents claim that the built product of ‘Community Architecture’ is often better
than the product of conventional architecture. “Community architecture means that
the personal who inhabit it are involved in and may even be instigators of, its
creation and its management as well. The inhabitants are the clients; and the
architect works for, or at least with them--in contrast to the typical situation where
architects and user never meet.”
community architecture Schemes, mainly for housing, that involve a study of the
prevailing social conditions and consultation with the people who are going to use
them.
BENEFITS OF COMMUNITY DESIGN

Community Design exist to make sure that the community services/ building are
designed to meet the user needs. It is an umbrella term covering community
planning, community architecture, social architecture, community development
and community participation, all of which emphasize the involvement of local
people in the social and physical development of the environment in which they
live.
URBAN DESIGN
Urban design is the design of towns and cities, streets and spaces. It is the
collaborative and multi-disciplinary process of shaping the physical setting for life
– the art of making places. Urban design involves the design of buildings, groups
of buildings, spaces and landscapes, and establishing frameworks and procedures
that will deliver successful development by different people over time.
Urban design is about a great variety of places: whether town and city centres,
residential neighbourhoods and suburbs, grassy fields on the edge of villages,
down-at-heel industrial estates, or unloved and overlooked areas around train
stations, rivers and canals. Urban design defines the nature of buildings and the
spaces between them, and how the design itself should be worked out: design
processes and outcomes. Urban design inspires, illustrates and defines how a place
could be improved or protected to bring benefits to investors, developers and wider
society.
Urban designers are typically architects, town planners or landscape architects.
Their skill is to bring together ideas from developers, local communities,
architects, planners, traffic engineers, landscape architects, transport planners and
many others, to resolve problems and conflicts in order to create better places for
everyone. Sometimes this will result in new places being built or a new
appreciation of existing urban areas in cities, towns and villages. Urban designers
can be employed by developers, local planning authorities or community groups,
including neighbourhood planning groups.
Urban design is versatile and so urban designers can produce ideas and work that is
indicative or specific, strategic or detailed, and this is reflected in the types of
drawings, reports and ways of working commonly used:
Urban design is visionary creating a ‘vision’ to show the economic, social and
environmental benefits of investment or changes at a strategic scale over a wide
area and over a long period of time. This is usually conveyed through a vision
statement, projecting forward 20-25 years’ time to explain the future characteristics
of an area and how people will use it. This can then be complemented by a
development framework, outlining the key physical features that will deliver the
vision.
Urban design is fact-finding urban designers gather data and evidence about
places to identify future options, and test the feasibility and viability of change or
development in context, for example transport and infrastructure capacity,
development character and density, environmental capacity issues (such as
flooding), plus local community needs and values. Feasibility studies usually
include options and a recommendation on the ‘best fit’ scenario.
Urban design can be illustrative using masterplans, artists’ impressions,
photomontages, 3D models and photographs of other successful places, urban
designers can bring to life how a development could look. This includes
highlighting important local characteristics, landmarks and public spaces.
Illustrative masterplans often show just one way in which design guidelines can be
built out.
Urban design setting specifications site-specific masterplans set out precise
proposals for which planning consent is being sought, and the use, size, form and
location of buildings, roads and open spaces, which are fixed. A local planning
authority may prepare a site-specific development brief, which sets out the main
characteristics required, and it allows developers to draw up a proposed scheme in
response. Masterplans and design codes bring together plot-specific requirements
for a site, which development proposals will need to comply with in order to be
approved.
IMPORTANCE OF URBAN DESIGN

Although predominantly concerned with the planning of settlements and
communities, urban planners are also responsible for planning the efficient
transportation of goods, resources, people and waste; the distribution of basic
necessities such as water and electricity; a sense of inclusion and opportunity for
people.
The typical duties of an urban designer might include: Working on 'visions' for
places, including the preparation of 'vision statements'. Designing built spaces from
an individual street or square to neighbourhoods or even whole towns. Providing
advice on the design of developments or regeneration schemes.
Also urban planning has played a lot of role in the community when it comes to
financial, economic, environmental, educational, transportation etc.
 Organised and planned development of cities
 Offers a better quality of life
 Aids economic growth and economic development
 Takes into account the environmental considerations
 Makes cities resilient
 Better infrastructure & sustainable form of development
 Easy access to educational and health facilities
 A good and efficient public transport system
 An efficient & reliable waste management system
 More jobs and other economic opportunities

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Community Architecture

COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE is approached more seldom, and even when it

The ‘Community Architecture’ is kind of architectural practice between architects

BENEFITS OF COMMUNITY DESIGN

IMPORTANCE OF URBAN DESIGN

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