Towards a Healthy City by Alan Hennessy

Part of the Living City - Body: Mind: Spirit: Bristol event organised by BDP's Bristol studio.

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1. 1 Bristol, 3 July 2014 Towards a Healthy City,
2. 2 Bristol, an afternoon walk on 2nd July 2014 Timed walking tours ..and new public spaces Bikes
3. 3 Bristol, an afternoon walk on 2nd July 2014 Quayside activity ..and new pedestrian and cycle links
4. 4 Bristol, an afternoon walk on 2nd July 2014 Green places to rest and watch the passersby
5. 5 Bristol, an afternoon walk on 2nd July 2014 Informative signage
6. 6 Bristol, an afternoon walk on 2nd July 2014 Human activity, Wimbledon watching
7. 7 Bristol, an afternoon walk on 2nd July 2014 And great buildings, old and new This mindful stroll took 90 minutes and left me tired, sunburnt but with a feeling of well-being. Bristol is my kind of city.
8. Body: Mind: Spirit « Well-being and urban design » An objective……A means Towards a Healthy City
9. Body: Mind: Spirit « Well-being and urban design » An objective……A means « Well-being in the city of short distances » One possible approach
10. I live in Grenoble, a city of 130 000 people in heart of the Alpes 1,8km 1,5km
11. An ambition to be Europe’s greenest cities
12. 12 Body: Mind: Spirit Physical and mental well being arises from a sense opportunity and security • Shelter • Education • Health • Work • Recreation • Mobility • Good food • … How do we define well being?
13. 13 Body: Mind: Spirit Physical and mental well being arises from a sense opportunity and security With more than half of the world’s population already living in cities we must ask ourselves the question: how do cities affect the health and well-being of more than three billion urban dwellers? Perhaps through we should concentrate on the conflicts and opportunities of living in a dense urban environment. • Shelter • Education • Health • Work • Recreation • Mobility • Good food • …
14. 14 Body: Mind: Spirit Well being arises from a sense opportunity and safety • Shelter • Education • Health……………………………….. • Work • Recreation • Mobility • … mens sana corpore sano healthy mind in a healthy body
15. 15 Body: Mind: Spirit Human beings* as the measure of their environnement *In her book White Beech, Germaine Greers prefers the word earthlings
16. 16 Within the space/time of a city walking pace could be taken as the unit of measure. It should be pleasurable and conducive to wel lbeing. So how far and for how long? 400m mindful stroll in 5 minutes
17. 17 10km or 2hr 6km or 1,25hr A city quarter 800m or 10min Paris Me and the family walking in our quartier 400m mindful stroll in 5 minutes
18. 18 1 to 2 hour mindful strolls in London
19. 19 Walkable cities or part of cities
20. 20 Cities physical exercise is a pleasure…or self inflicted pain
21. « Well-being and urban design » Some projects as illustrations So, can we these principles apply to our work? « Well being in the city of short distances »
22. 22 Savoie Technolac 1992-2014 university and science campus 400m stroll in 5 minutes Major and minor axes Movement and green spaces Quartiers Centralities
23. 23 Savoie Technolac 1992-2014 A landscaped major public space of 2,5ha used by employees and students alike for parties, sport, events. A space appropriated by local artists.
24. LA DEFENSE, EPAD : Introduce urbanity to the buisness district
25. LA DEFENSE, EPAD : From where and to where do people want to come an go
26. LA DEFENSE, EPAD : The various « quartiers »
27. LA DEFENSE, EPAD : « Soft » linksto the surrounding neighbourhoods
28. LA DEFENSE, EPAD : A new sense of wellbeing in this place
29. LA SEYNE SUR MER : « From a naval dockyard of suffering to a place of recreation » Avec BDP
30. Avec BDP LA SEYNE SUR MER : « From a naval dockyard of suffering to a place of recreation »
31. MARSEILLE, Reconconquering the street for people
32. Avec BDP MARSEILLE, Reconconquering the street for people
33. Université MOHAMMED VI Polytechnique de Benguerir
34. a 400x400m grid 5 minsx5mins University conceived on the model of the Medina
35. 35 A central street sunk into the desert to mitigate extremes of heat and cold
36. 36 Central street as a place for people
37. NEWRY, Albert Basin, Northern Ireland: Dockland regeneration as part of river valley framework
38. NEWRY, Albert Basin, Northern Ireland: A mixed use quarter focused on water based leisure, sport and culture
39. NEWRY, Albert Basin, Northern Ireland: A mixed use car free quarter
40. KIEV, UKRAINE: A children’s hospital with on site accomodation for parents. A network of footpaths in the forest avec BDP Groupe-6 Hospital Hotel
41. Gagner l’ international Avec BDP Urban Design work sessions to define a public realm and mobility strategy …and an application at Southmead Hospital, Bristol Typologies • Parvis • Mall • Quarter • Place Human scale and Spatial Rythmn
42. Gagner l’ international Avec BDP …and its application at Southmead Hospital, Bristol
43. Alan Hennessy alan.hennessy2@gmail.com Tel. 00 33 6 75 83 59 61 16 place Sainte-Claire, 38000 Grenoble, France AHA Architecture Urbanisme
46. Why An approach to designing for sustainable living It can be argued that urbanism and urban design are verbs not nouns. That they are complex processes where the journey is in many cases as important as the destination. Towns, cities and communities should be livable places providing shelter, opportunity and security to the body, mind and spirit, in short ensuring wellbeing. It is impossible to meet this challenge without considering and balancing the needs and desires of a place and its inhabitants, past, present and future. How these needs and desires are assessed, analyzed, prioritized and the solutions proposed is an iterative process which concerns a wide range of actors, public, political and technical possessing many different and complementary skills. It is a process which should be rooted also in the place and its relationship to wider regional, national and global concerns. It should try to engage everyone and everything that is in this place. The urbanist has an important role to play in this process but is only one of many actors. The ability to pause, listen, hear, look, reflect and understand before proposing possible solutions is an essential skill. It is exciting and a privilege to study a place and it carries responsibilities. This is what makes urbanism and urban design so satisfying. Rotterdam Youghal Grenoble Saint Louis Christchurch Trièves Turin Place Sairte Claire Amiens
47. CONSTANTINE, ALGERIE, A new clutural quarter knitting together existing villages by means of the public realm
48. CONSTANTINE, ALGERIE, A new clutural quarter knitting together existing villages by means of the public realm
49. Regional Masterplan for the development of the city of Cayenne, Guyana
50. Regional Masterplan for the development of the city of Cayenne, Guyana Scale of city Scale of Quarter