Shelter Sanctuary Sustainability Bus Shelter Design Activity Sustainability
Shelter, Sanctuary & Sustainability Bus Shelter Design Activity
Sustainability and Society. . . • In order to reach our environmental targets we need to encourage more people to use public transport. • What are the blocks to greater public usage of public transport? • What can be done to remove these obstacles? • Can we take this opportunity to address wider issues in society such as violence and anti-social behaviour? Discuss and record the points raised.
Some Shelter!. . . . • Bus shelters and train stations are often lonely, intimidating even scary places to be on your own. • Too often they are used as meeting places for gangs and anti-social groups or individuals. • When people step off the bus or train they feel suddenly alone and exposed. • What can we do about this situation?
Sanctuary………. . • What if instead of being as described on the previous slide the bus shelter was a sanctuary? • What if it became a place of refuge? • What if it communicated with you and anyone else coming near? • So how would we create it? • What would it have to do to fulfil this ideal?
Sanctuary………. . • Specification: – Incorporate full range of communications technologies inc. video, telecommunications, Bluetooth ‘handshaking’, iris recognition. – Full range of sensors, data logging and evidence capturing technologies inc. proximity sensors, video capture and transmit, auditory sensing and recording, DNA sampling, pressure sensing. – Networked to other intelligent street elements such as lamp posts, waste bins, park benches etc. that would ‘walk’ you home and check with your mobile phone that you had arrived. – What additional features would we have to include to meet the needs of the homeless?
Ian Mc. Chesney Architects Windshelter, Blackpool
- Slides: 16