Sixteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

The paper analyses the process of UK urban design coding and understanding how could be possible to apply this process in practice in different contexts. First, we analyse Urban Design coding in UK, then we try to understand how the design process of My House My Life, the social housing Program in Brazil works. Our challenge is creating a methodology that could bring the UK urban design coding process of knowledge and build a framework of flexible desirable urban design qualities that could mirror in UK experience and apply in Brazil. We focus the study on the importance between the process and the product to address good design results. When we talk about the UK coding process, we analyse how this process can build bridges between the stakeholders, focus on governance of the agreements between the government rules, design team vision, population needs, and the interests of the developers and the owners of the land. The design coding must attend all these stakeholders, and must figure it out the needs of the population to deliver design quality. Design coding is not a receipt of good practice but furthermore, it is a tool to connect the rules with a vision to achievement of desirable urban design qualities. It must attend a demand a site-specific characteristics and urban design quality principles. The graphic document is the result of the coding process and creates a possibility to control and to guide stakeholders to take decisions.