Analyse the City

The following exercises were aimed at gaining an understanding of different ways to analyse an urban environment

Historical Timeline

The above sketches highlight the growth of Brisbane over almost a century and a half. The darkest shade of red highlights the earliest structures while the lightest is the most recent. As you can see the central hub as slowly expanded out onto all edges of the river

Mobility Analysis

The diagram highlights the major transport routes in and out of the Brisbane CBD. As you can see there a various major roads connecting each other. I chose to only include a few secondary roads and I believe it is not necessary to highlight them all. The chosen ones rather just show alternate routes to the major roads. The train line is only present in the top right hand corner, whilst the ferry access both banks of the river.

Functional Analysis

The picture above shows the division of functions used around the Fortitude Valley region. There is a dominant commercial use, due to the locality of the city. The commercial use spans from, businesses, restaurants and nightclub etc. The residential areas continue to grow past what is seen on the right hand side.  There is a limitation on parkland's and All Hallows School is the only educational facility.

Urban Morphology

I choose to represent the urban morphology using a 3D representation. I thought this was a good way to do it as it depicts the high rise buildings and already shows a boundary without the need to make it visually eminent. The high rise buildings are restricted within the CBD with medium density buildings expanded outwards all over, similarly this is the case with the low set residential buildings. Both the high rise and medium density again have varied use, as discussed in the Functional Analysis. There is again a limit on park lands, however, the Botanic Gardens is a distinct visual indicator and large portion of the CBD