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PLANNING BY DESIGN -
David Oliver argues the case for good design based upon the lessons of the past in this highly informative video. Produced in three parts, it includes a comprehensive overview of numerous completed developments.
Planning by Design Volume 1
The Video shows how planning went through a post second world war black period of abandoning good design principles. It concentrates upon the successful integration of new developments into existing rural towns and villages. David Oliver shows how West Dorset District Council pioneered some solutions to try and redress the problem. This volume examines existing towns and villages both in Dorset and further afield in England, Wales and Cornwall, then examines ways of challenging national residential road design advice. It shows how’ historic locations as diverse as Polperro and Venice were constructed on the same principles by the space between buildings being determined by the modes of transport needing to be accommodated.Planning by Design Volume 2
In this Volume, David Oliver broadens the scope of his approach to look at individual building design, examines principles that have held good for hundreds of years such as giving the most important buildings permanent prominence. He goes on to examine the importance of a buildings setting and reviews three striking examples by internationally well known architects, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mise Van Der Rohe and Gordon Robbins (from Christchurch UK). Continuing the theme of modern house design, the video moves from hugely innovative and individualistic designs to the importance of the design of volume housing. Basic principles of good design are examined. Developments which have ignored such principles are looked at both from the ground and in the air and there are detailed studies of how modem development has been successfully incorporated into Broadwindsor and Abbotsbury. Volume two concludes with some undesirable consequences of slavishly following Highway Design Guide DB32.Planning by Design Volume 3
Ian Madgwick starts by distinguishing between the needs of Trunk Road and Motorway traffic and that of residential traffic. He stresses how good design itself is sufficient to reduce problems of speeding in residential roads and shows some ludicrous attempts to reduce traffic speeding on roads that have been built with unquestioned highway design guide approaches. He concludes by demonstrating how the road pattern within Poundbury incorporates the principles he has been discussing. David Oliver takes up the theme and shows how Poundbury has evolved as a self-contained and sustainable extension of Dorchester. He examines the development principles that guided the original concepts of Leon Krier then looks in detail at the waysiting of building within their plots has been achieved and how the whole development integrates a mixture of residential, commercial and public facilities within a very small area. The video ends with an extension of the importance of good design principles to illustrate that the need for this does not stop at residential tows or individual buildings but extends into all facets of the built environment. We examine how a potentially disastrous extensive new sewage disposal scheme was both hidden from view and incorporated into practical and sympathetic new coastal design facilities winning a government award for its achievement.
