OUGD504 - Studio Brief 01 - Initial Concept Ideas

SUBJECT MATTER:

City guidebook:
Letchworth Garden City (the world's first garden city).

Chapters and Topics (potential):

• History
• Art, Design and Architecture (arts and crafts movements within the town)
• Nature (walks, trails and wildlife)
• TV and film (popular culture)
• Religion (spirituality and belief in the town)
• Industry
• Town centre, food and shopping.

Layout Ideas:

• Ebenezer Howard's layout for the town (zoning systems)
• "Peaceful path to reform"
• Urban town planning principles
• Three magnets idea
  Split the guidebook into sections based on the three magnets diagram produced by Howard to communicate his ideas for garden cities:
  1. town
  2. country
  3. town-country
• Categorise chapters and topics based on the successes of Howard's proposed plans:
  Based on the three magnets idea which takes advantages and disadvantages of town and country life, combining together to produce a solution to poverty in the Victorian era.

Places of Interest (to photograph):

• The Spirella Building
• Broadway Cinema
• Cloisters
• Howgill's Friends Meeting House
• Public library
• Old town hall
• Kennedy (Broadway) Gardens
• Norton Common Nature Reserve
• UK's first roundabout
• Town sign
• Mrs Howard Memorial Hall (and Oak Tree)
• Three Magnets Pub
• Town centre and shopping
• The Settlement (Formerly The Skittle's Inn)
• Train station.