RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENTS
This is a practical
book about architecture & urban design. Step by step it discusses how we
can achieve the environment in real life. Through some main qualities this book
shows how do you create opportunities for people? So, the book becomes a
'How to' guide for designers which looked at some of the following important
elements of a city: Permeability, Variety, Legibility, Robustness, Visual
appropriateness, Richness and Personalization. Responsiveness meant the Ability of a designed
environments to respond to the user’s needs and the aspirations.
The quality
“permeability” says that only places which are accessible to people can offer
them choice. The extent to which an environment allows people a choice of
access through it, from place to place is therefore a key measure of its
responsiveness. There are some declines to public permeability. Second key
quality is verity. From it clearly says that accessible places are only
valuable if they offer experiential choices. The third quality legibility is
the quality of a place which makes that easily understand through the physical
form and activity pattern.
Authors are describing
those qualities continuously in an attractive manner. Then they describe the
things which relevant to robustness, Visual appropriateness, richness and also
personalization. If number of different purposes a place can use it called as
robustness. There are some key factors to keep long term robustness. In that
book visual appropriateness has introduced as the way in which the design
physically can make people aware of the choices the place provides.The quality
which affects people’s choice of sensory experience known as richness and it
can be categorizes under visual and non-visual. As the last quality authors
have discussed about the personalization.
Through the personalization make people achieve an environment with their
own stamps. As the result of putting these qualities together authors have shown that how to design with the responsiveness.
