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Chair of Architecture and Urban Design
Asst. Prof. Dr. Alex Lehnerer
Grand Urban Rules

Design Rules and Design With Rules!

Cities as cultural products are neither ‘built’ nor ‘planned,’ at best they are guided and steered in a certain direction. Therefore, rules and regulations are one of the few tools that are actually suitable to guide future development within such collective and complex urban settings.

We strongly believe that the field of (urban) design should not simply adhere to these standards as some neutrally existing context but should actively engage in discussing them in order to make them subject to design as well. read more

Office for urban regulation

Rule of Three

New York

During the past century, a number of inner-city parcels have been rebuilt up to three times. The city has the discretion to grant certain buildings historic landmark status and place them under permanent protection.

Rule category

Motivation
Contextual Regimes: issues depending on the immediate context and its preservation, economic and social regimes, traditions, etc.
The Kind of Rule
Rule that stipulates a fixed limit.
Domain
Rule that has a strong influence on urban density and its distribution.
Rule that regulates building heights.
Rule that explicitly copes with stylistic and aesthetic concerns.
Scale
General Declaration: General declaration, motive without specific scale.
General Land Use: Rule that specifies land use in general.