Site Analysis Study of Public and Private Space
The project analysis was driven by social, environmental, and spatial variables, with a critical emphasis on access to quality public space. This project involved spatial mapping of street furniture comparing public seating, and privately owned public seating. The project evaluates the quality public space using factors such as, vegetation, movable seating, sound, and seating types.
Graphs below show qualitative operations on the quality of the seating options, and quantitative data regarding the number of occupied seats over the period of a week.
The site analysis demonstrated that areas allocated to public seating tend to have less shade, vegetation, ability to move seating, and are predominantly located on the outskirts of the pedestrian area. By contrast the privately owned public space have higher density of vegetation, more movable seating, higher levels of occupation, and are located in the center of the pedestrian area. This site analysis demonstrates that the architecture of the pedestrian mall creates unequal access to quality public space.
Hannah Kemp 