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Mixed Use Development Design

1. Introduction 2. Site design 3. Street to front door 4. Outdoor spaces 5. Accommodating Cars 6. The Building
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 2.1 Overview
  • 2.2 Topography
  • 2.3 Ecology and habitats
    • 2.3.1 Water sensitive design
  • 2.4 Connectivity
    • 2.4.1 Active design
    • 2.4.2 Integrating access and parking
  • 2.5 Diversify use and activity
    • 2.5.1 Mixed use and reverse sensitivity
    • 2.5.2 Getting mix of uses right
    • 2.5.3 Locating 'buffers'
    • 2.5.4 Locating outdoor spaces
    • 2.5.5 Choosing your uses
  • 2.6 Relate to urban structure
  • 2.7 Respond to built form
    • 2.7.1 Street setbacks and layouts
    • 2.7.2 Neighbourly privacy
    • 2.7.3 Sunlight, daylight and shadowing
  • 2.8 Cultural landscapes
  • 2.9 Safety and security
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Create a positive street edge
  • 3.3 Front boundary treatments
  • 3.4 Safety, activity and privacy
  • 3.5 Verandahs
  • 3.6 Defining the entrance
  • 3.7 Planting and landscaping
  • 3.8 Lighting
  • 3.9 Signage
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Balconies
  • 4.3 Communal outdoor spaces
  • 4.4 Service areas
  • 4.5 Landscape design
  • 4.6 Stormwater management
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Types of parking
    • 5.2.1 Underground parking
    • 5.2.2 Semi-basement
    • 5.2.3 Undercroft parking
    • 5.2.4 Ground floor parking
    • 5.2.5 Surface parking
    • 5.2.6 Above ground parking
    • 5.2.7 Multi-storey carparking
    • 5.2.8 Multi-storey sleeved parking
    • 5.2.9 Mechanised parking
  • 5.3 Access and wayfinding
    • 5.3.1 Car park approach and entrance
    • 5.3.2 Pedestrian access and legibility
    • 5.3.3 Signage and wayfinding
  • 5.4 Layout and configuration
    • 5.4.1 Parking building design
    • 5.4.2 Parking angles
    • 5.4.3 Structural configuration
  • 5.5 Facade design and screening
    • 5.5.1 Design Responses
    • 5.5.2 Weather-tightness and ventilation
  • 5.6 Landscaping
    • 5.6.1 Soft landscaping
    • 5.6.2 Hard landscaping
  • 5.7 Safety and Security
    • 5.7.1 Lighting
    • 5.7.2 Visibility
    • 5.7.3 Security of cars and patrons
  • 5.8 Utilities and storage
    • 5.8.1 Servicing and bin storage/collection
    • 5.8.2 Storage
  • 5.9 Bicycle parking
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Mixed use configurations
    • 6.2.1 Vertical mixed use
    • 6.2.2 Horizontal mixed use
    • 6.2.3 Courtyard developments
    • 6.2.4 Corner sites
    • 6.2.5 Adaptive re-use
  • 6.3 Building form
    • 6.3.1 Massing, height and placement
    • 6.3.2 Floor-to-ceiling heights
    • 6.3.3 Building depth
  • 6.4 Safe and easy access
    • 6.4.1 Building entrances
    • 6.4.2 Pedestrian circulation & accessibility
    • 6.4.3 Navigation and signage
    • 6.4.4 Designing for physical activity
  • 6.5 Facade design
  • 6.6 Building performance
    • 6.6.1 Building envelope
    • 6.6.2 Solar design
    • 6.6.3 Ventilation
    • 6.6.4 Water sensitive design
    • 6.6.5 Construction waste
    • 6.6.6 Material selection
    • 6.6.7 Management and maintenance

Case Studies

  • 3333 Main, Vancouver
  • Berenger Apartments, Portland
  • Capers Building
  • Collection 45, Vancouver
  • Cross Roads, Vancouver
  • Drake Street
  • Enso
  • North Main Village
  • On Que
  • Peirmont and Monument Apartments
  • The Wellington
  • Tupelo Alley, Portland

    Drake Street

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    Overview

    A small mixed use/apartment building which uses an interesting building layout to allow all the habitable rooms to get light and ventilation.

    Project Summary

    Project Summary

    ​​​​​​​​​​​This four-storey mixed use apartment building has been designed with a continuous perimeter wall and appears to occupy the whole site. Into this wrapped volume, two courtyards have been inserted, which give structure to the building. The proportions of the resulting building footprint respond to the adjacent urban grain.

    The commercial levels one and two comprise flexible, well lit space. Both levels are served by a lift and staircase at the rear of the site. The residential levels three and four have been arranged as one apartment per floor, with a recessed terrace facing Drake Street and views over the market to Victoria Park.

    The building has two different characters : the public Drake Street façade and perimeter walls along the site boundaries (the outer wrap) and the private façades in the courtyards (the inner linings).  The use of light wells inserted into the building brings daylight through the middle of the structure where there are no (or limited) external walls. Every habitable room has access to daylight and natural ventilation, and the light wells create a sunny internal courtyard at ground level.

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