Introducing Good Design-led Framework

3 Aspects

While it is crucial to consider all POS users during the design process, we believe that a desirable POS should also improve people’s quality of life, enhance environmental sustainability, and adapt to the ever changing needs of our cities. These 3 Aspects stress the importance of desirable POS in contributing to the sustainability of our cities, which we believe should be the guiding principle of this Design Guide.

Design for People

How POS design can respond to people’s needs, including their changing needs.

Design for Environment

How POS design can mitigate environmental issues and strengthen micro-climates to ensure environmental resilience.

Design for Future Planning

How POS design can accommodate future city development in addition to present capacity.

Design for People

Echoing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 11, the first Aspect, “Design for People”, ensures that the desirable POS is inclusive, safe, and enjoyable for all users. This part covers not only the physical elements of POS design but also the community activities, placemaking, and public participatory processes that make the POS an integral part of our everyday lives and improve our quality of life.

Design For Environment

Noting the importance of ensuring the environmental sustainability of our cities, we incorporated key concepts such as biophilic city, sponge city, and microclimate into developing our Good Designled Framework. The second Aspect, “Design for Environment”, illustrates how a well-designed POS can become crucial to the city’s climate and conservation strategy while aligning with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals 13 and 15.

Design for Future Planning

As our cities evolve, so do our needs and aspirations for a desirable POS. Referencing emerging urban planning concepts, each with different implications on the form, function, management and design process of POS, the third Aspect of our framework, Design for Future Planning, offers insights on how POS could be designed to strengthen urban resilience on a city scale, while coping with future city development.

10 Good Design-led Values

Inclusivity And Comparable Experiences For All

A desirable POS should promote equity and create a welcoming environment where everyone can easily enter, navigate, and use the facilities. Ensuring comparable user experiences for diverse groups is critical to allow users of all abilities and backgrounds to fully utilise and enjoy the POS.

Inclusivity:

Welcome a wide variety of users in its community.

Comparable experiences:

Ensure that users of different abilities can use the space in ways that suit their needs and enjoy the same facilities equally.

#ageinclusion #genderInclusion #disabilityinclusion #ethnicInclusion #universaldesign

Safety, Spaciousness and Adequate Functional Provision

A desirable POS should offer safe, comfortable environments where everyone can intuitively identify the different usage of spaces. Clean, well-functioning and flexible spaces are key to accommodating diverse uses.

Safety:

Balance the potential harm to its users and the enjoyment for the space.

Spaciousness:

Provide the space for users to move around and carry out different activities.

Functional Provision:

Provide users with spaces corresponding to specific functions.

#multifunctionalspace

Vibrancy and Enjoyment

A desirable POS should foster the well-being and flourishing of its users by providing aesthetically pleasing environments that encourage the enjoyment of spaces and activities. Diverse and engaging experiences and opportunities for testing and new ways of play, inspire users to explore different ways of public life beyond basic provisions.

Vibrancy:

Provides users with exciting experiences.

Enjoyment:

Promote well-being by offering a diverse range of activities.

#unconventional #playful #testingground #innovation

Distinctiveness and Relevance

A desirable POS should reflect its neighbourhood, context, and social setting. It should express the local character and communal aspirations of its users. Enabling spaces to foster collaboration and interaction strengthens communal life and is integral to a united community.

Distinctiveness:

Has distinct identity that is recognisable and easy to remember.

Relevance:

Is informed by its social context and the needs of its neighbourhood.

#senseofattachment #localidentity #socialcohesion

Openness for Participation

A desirable POS should actively engage its users. The input and feedback from users keep the POS lively and help cultivate social bonds in the neighbourhood

Participation:

Represent the community’s collective spirit by inviting community members to participate.

#cocreate #communication #empowerment

Biophilic Design

A desirable POS should connect users with nature. It can provide an oasis where city dwellers can escape the hustle and bustle of urban life and enjoy the physical, mental, and environmental benefits of interacting with nature.

Biophilic:

Promote a human-nature connection.

#humannatureconnection

Optimal Microclimate

A desirable POS should combat the urban heat island effect and cool down the city, providing users with a comfortable experience year-round.

Microclimate:

Optimises specific climate conditions within a site to create a comfortable environment for its users.

#ambienttemperature #allseasons

Sustainable Environment and Ecosystem

A desirable POS should enhance environmental sustainability and longevity to become a lasting part of the city’s green infrastructure and support all life within it.

Sustainable Environment:

Support the vitality of the environment.

Ecosystem:Sustain the life of every being in the city and serve as an urban habitat for a larger ecosystem.:

(繁體中文) 維繫着城市中的所有生命，且可以成為整個生態系統的城市棲息地。

#lifecycle #ecosystem

Responsiveness and Catalyst for Neighbourhood

A desirable POS should be agile and resilient. In addition to fulfilling the community’s ever-changing needs, it is critical to enable the POS to proactively extend its influence to drive positive social change and absorb crises to sustain dynamic urban life.

Responsiveness:

Adapt to the changing identity and needs of the neighbourhood.

Catalyst for Neighbourhood:

Drive positive changes and promote local capacitybuilding and community development in the long run.

#goodchanges #extremeclimate #futureready

Multidisciplinary Integration

A desirable POS requires thorough considerations from across disciplines to operate, function, and evolve sustainably into the future, starting from the early stage of development. It must align with urban planning frameworks and global aspirations to address long-term environmental, social, and economic needs and deliver enduring value.

Multidisciplinary:

It is important to involve people from different backgrounds and integrate various subject knowledge to design and manage a POS. Promote cooperation between different parties and departments can lead to a successful implementation of innovative POS design.

#urbanplanning #collaboration

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