do we need to look at the way Briggate links with the rest of the city, currently there isn't a great link from the train station, woodhouse lane, and the new resi across where I am, do you think it is worth focusing on these connections? i think they wants to see an 'intention' objectively there isn't currently much wrong with Briggate, it works very well as a shopping street, its the value that we are going to add to this that we need to bring across perhaps? going back to the issue of engaging people with their surroundings is our intention to reduce the permeability across the city but strengthen a series of connections, creating spaces - connection places.
I think that we only need to identify the places of decay, its a tricky one because if we remove+add stuff all we are doing is creating a proposal, is it worth looking to the streets that connection to Briggate for their redundant upper spaces? it would end up of as a cool diagram of this line linking boxes across the city identifying new public spaces that link back to Briggate
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I agree with what you're saying, what we're doing is still a redefinition rather than a proposal, so in that respect we're fine. Within the context of Briggate we're altering existing connections between spaces and the existing shops, if our larger proposal is to do this within the city then I think we're on to something.
I like the potential in a diagram as you've mentioned, are you planning to work on this instead of the 'decay' elevation images?
I will try and get both done, i'm going to make a start on the decay stuff now, i think that perhaps the other diagram is a overlaid ariel photo with blocks of colour showing the tops of other buildings that could be linked in this manner?
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