Wed 29/03/23, 9.30am–12.30pm
Palestra
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Join us on our site visit where we will look at different approaches to the delivery of green infrastructure. Setting off from Palestra we will take in SuDs schemes in Bankside before we cross the Millennium Bridge to St. Paul’s where we will consider the success of different planting specifications. We will walk through the City taking in Aldwych and the Strand before finishing at Somerset House.
Your host for the morning will be Howard Gray from Green Blue Urban.
Note: Please ensure you are committed to attend this in-demand event before you book a place. If you would like to book onto this event, please email us to join the waiting list.
Thu 02/02/23, 10–11.30am
Site Visit
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This visit will explore Arup’s industry-first immersive facility. It is designed to change the way designers, clients and stakeholders can experience, test and improve their designs by allowing you to understand how decisions impact the experience of a place.
Agenda
10.00 Welcome with Arup, Susan May and David Edge
10.10 Divide into Group A and B tours (40mins each)
11:30 Q&A and Finish
Wed 01/02/23, 10am–12.30pm
Zoom
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A discussion on how we can best approach fire safety requirements for buildings.
This session will be held online.
Tue 01/11/22, 10am–12.30pm
Palestra
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Understanding the different aspects of evaluating Net Zero Carbon home design for planners and clients with practical application for your day to day work, in partnership with the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI).
Led by LETI representatives Chris Twinn, Principal, Twinn Sustainability Innovation and Zoe Watson, Sustainability Specialist, Levitt Bernstein and facilitated by Penelope Tollitt.
9.45 Registration
10.00 Welcome and Introduction to Net Zero Carbon Home Design
- Why do we need to ensure development meets Net Zero Carbon requirements? Exploring what we need to look from a planning and client perspective, Chris Twinn and Zoe Watson
- Q&A
10.45 Workshops
- Delegates have the choice of three groups to explore how net zero carbon design is achieved:
Group 1 - Masterplan/design code
Group 2 - Design review, desktop review forums
Group 3 – Desktop review of scheme drawings
Facilitated by Chris Twinn, Zoe Watson, and Urban Design London
Comfort break
11.30 Feedback and Discussion
- Learning insights from the different groups and discussing how to apply these to our day to day work.
- Looking at sustainability expertise, both what people are currently doing, the pros/cons of in house verse external expertise and how to approach procurement.
Facilitated by Chris Twinn and Zoe Watson
12.15 Wrap up and close
Thu 13/10/22, 10am–12.30pm
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For the visit we will tour this Housing Design Awards winning scheme with designers RMA Architects. We will explore how the development responds sensitively to the surrounding context with a mix of apartment blocks and a housing terrace along a new street.
Agenda
10.00 Introduction with UDL and RMA Architects
10.30 Tour of the scheme, Mark McGechan (RMA Architects)
- Project design, planning and delivery process including the liaison developed between the architects, the GLA and LB Newham.
- The scheme in context – access, views, spatial relationships, height and massing, nature, boundaries, features and materials.
- Spatial and place making relationships within the scheme – storage, facilities, outside spaces and recycling/refuse. We will include particular focus on the place making qualities and practical working of the new street.
- Internal design – common parts, privacy, daylight, visual connection, aspect, storage and ventilation.
12.00 Finish
Tue 12/07/22, 10am–12pm
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We will be hearing both client and architect perspectives of this innovative Housing Design Awards shortlisted mews housing scheme on a highly constrained site, providing a community of courtyard homes with a shared garden at their centre.
Fri 08/07/22, 11am–1pm
Site Visit
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During the year we will visit exemplary housing as well as street and public realm projects. The locations will be decided nearer the time.
Mon 23/05/22, 11am
Palestra
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We are delighted to offer this site visit kindly hosted by LB Camden and Architects Hawkins\Brown. The scheme has an innovative mix of both retrofit and newbuild and is the largest Passivhaus scheme in the UK. We will hear about the vision underpinning the scheme and discuss the placemaking, building design and energy performance.
To reserve your place, please email us at info@urbandesignlondon.com