The Sheffield Urban Development Framework - Essay Example

As for site 4, it is at the southeast of the Quarter. It is the gateway to the city center and a linkage between Riverside Business District and another commercial site at the south of it. The development of an integrated multi-functional site should be considered for this site.

The purpose of the development of site 4 is to attract a permanent business and commercial community by the provision of mixed-use and green public realm space.

3.2 Design Principles

3.21 Principles of site's redevelopment

1. Re-develop Bridge Street and Love Street. Widen the Love Street and Bridge Street to improve the legibility of the site.
2. Encourage mixed-use development. Overreliance on one use may lead to failure of the site in the future

3.22 Principles of new buildings

Buildings will be a range of heights to provide an interesting streetscape. None of the buildings should be taller than 6 stories.

However, at the edge of the site, which is shown as the right corner blue area on map 3.1. Tall buildings will act as landmarks on the site to attract people.

3.23 Principles of Green and open space

Applying new green infrastructure to fill the vacant spaces with green public realm space such as tree lines, streetscapes.

4. Design Evolution

First Draft

I did options for the site's design three times. I designed three themes for the site's possible development at the first stage. 

First The first is designed mainly for business use- combined retail and open spaces. There is a multi-story car park.

The second option design would maintain most warehouses at the site and refurbished them for retail use. One business building is provided for improving profit The multi-story car the third.

Third option is designed mainly for retail and residential use. There multi-story car park.

After considering the existing policies, Option 1 is most ideal for fud is customizing.

Second Draft

At this stage, the design focuses on how the site should be oriented for future development and the layout of the site. By doing so a 3D model and financial appraisal are used to rechoosing.

Option 1 is designed to redevelop the site to a high density and height mixed-use area which is mixed-use used as business and retail sector, meanwhile, there is a multi-store car multi-stroll as complementary for the site.

Option 2 is designed to develop elementary for the existing residential and business area surrounded. It is designed as a mixed-use sector with a multi-story car park as complementary to the site.

Option 3 is designed to redevelop the site to a residential area. Meanwhile, there is a multi-story car park and convenience shop area as complementary to the site. There is a 6-floor building at the south end of the site for a landmark purpose.

In conclusion, the final proposal is based on option 1 as it has the highest profit. Meanwhile, the option 1 design followed requirements from the planning guidance. 

However, there are still problems noticed. This is discussed in the next section.

5. FINAL PROPOSAL

The final proposal is based on option 1. There are some changes in options financial proposal is going to demolish all the existing industrial warehouses. There will be two new main roads across the sites. (seethe  in the final design)

There will be 12-storey main buildings at the south end of the side, built as the landmark for the show-story story podiums will be in retail use. Other floors are used for business purposes. (see in the final design)

six-story torn business buildings will be built. One retail shop will be bunion on two floors. ( see in the final design)

So the total gross floor spaces for business use will be 6134. The retail use area will be 2130.74 (see in the final design)

Meanwhile, there will be a 653.5m2 restaurant and a 1109.32 m2 hall. (see in the final design)

Furthermore, the financial appraisal of Option 1 shows a relatively-high profit of £9,291,385, 54.01% at the end. Thus Option 1 can change during its final detailed design. So the multi-story car park alters to underground car parking. This will increase the building cost but will provide a new additional 840 m2 vacant area. This area is going to be designed for open and green space based on the site's original planning guidance.

In this case, there will be a basement car parking for 2448 m2 for the site. (residential: 21bays, business:62 bays, restaurant:7bays and hall 12 bays, total:102bays, which 102*24=2448m2) (see in the final design)

The green area and open spaces are 4162m2.

After the change, the profit of the site becomes £4,719,170, 25.98%. which decreases by 51.9%. But it is still viable. (see detail of financial appraisal for this proposal in the Final design)