Section A

The Waterfront Development Corporation, in interpreting the design standards established by this subchapter shall consider the following design principles:

• 1. Functional requirements. A design shall meet the basic criteria for satisfying its program. Relationships between parking and buildings, for example, shall meet accepted standards of design for engineering and accessibility.
• 2. Systems relationships and continuity. The project shall be integrated into other projects and planned systems, such as pedestrian ways, landscaping patterns, lighting concepts, and traffic movements.
• 3. Visual relationships and continuity. The way one sees the project in relation to its context is important. Such considerations as the view from the road, from the river, or from other vantage points such as from above, in vista or panorama, at day or night, or in different seasons may be of consequence.
• 4. Aesthetic and symbolic meaning. The style and form should relate a project to the historic setting or to the unique qualities of its city waterfront location.
• 5. Architectural and landscape composition. Scale, form, and materials are the basic elements of building and site design. The relationships between buildings and the relationship between projects and their settings are significant. A project should be expressive of contemporary thinking in design. Questions of style should be focused on relationships of form and material rather than replication of historic architectural periods.
• 6. Pedestrian activity and scale. The quality of experience for the individual or for groups in varying activities is of great importance. Land use, architectural design, landscape design and public art combine at the human scale to contribute to quality places for people.