The document discusses the pattern of access to water. It states that water is a precious natural resource and that people have a fundamental desire to be near large bodies of water. However, unchecked access can also lead to pollution if care is not taken. The document provides an example of how access to a lake in India is managed by surrounding it with a jogging track and public gathering spaces to maintain the natural state of the water while allowing access. This helps utilize the fact of access to water as a community asset in a sustainable way.
The document discusses the pattern of access to water. It states that water is a precious natural resource and that people have a fundamental desire to be near large bodies of water. However, unchecked access can also lead to pollution if care is not taken. The document provides an example of how access to a lake in India is managed by surrounding it with a jogging track and public gathering spaces to maintain the natural state of the water while allowing access. This helps utilize the fact of access to water as a community asset in a sustainable way.
The document discusses the pattern of access to water. It states that water is a precious natural resource and that people have a fundamental desire to be near large bodies of water. However, unchecked access can also lead to pollution if care is not taken. The document provides an example of how access to a lake in India is managed by surrounding it with a jogging track and public gathering spaces to maintain the natural state of the water while allowing access. This helps utilize the fact of access to water as a community asset in a sustainable way.
The document discusses the pattern of access to water. It states that water is a precious natural resource and that people have a fundamental desire to be near large bodies of water. However, unchecked access can also lead to pollution if care is not taken. The document provides an example of how access to a lake in India is managed by surrounding it with a jogging track and public gathering spaces to maintain the natural state of the water while allowing access. This helps utilize the fact of access to water as a community asset in a sustainable way.
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A Pattern Language
By Christopher Alexander
Access to Water- Water is always precious. Among the special natural places covered by sacred sites, we single out the ocean beaches, lakes & river banks, because they are irreplaceable. Their maintenances & proper use require a special pattern.
People have a fundamental yearning for great bodies of water. But the very movement of the people toward the water can also destroy the water. For most of the cases the water edges tend to become very dirty if care is not taken. Either it be roads, freeways, or normal passing by stream, the water gets dirty until & unless it gets to any Govt. or Pvt. hands. The fact that people need water is very vital & profound. This problem can be solved only if it is understood that people will build places near to it which will be very natural or allow them to feel the naturalness of it. The width of the belt of land along the water may vary with the type of water, density of area development (say be a promenade or a common parkland extending hundreds of yards beyond a beach.
A similar example regarding
Access to water can be seen around Seawoods Lake near Palm-Beach road in Nerul. There one can witness how the CIDCO utilized the surrounding around the lake into a regular jogging track as well as a place for usual chitchatting. In short term they converted this into a public gathering space where various programs are also sometimes organized. Also it provides a beautiful family time spending space for the people. Such steps regarding managing access to water can really help maintain the naturality of the water in the waterbody. Providing various human centric innovative well-designed public space around such
waterbodies can utilize the fact of access
to water. This public space around the Seawoods lake i.e. THE JEWEL OF NAVI MUMBAI has utilized the fact of Access to water by providing the required & needed amenities i.e. the boating facility & all other public interactive spaces which
beautifully curve out one of the examples of the day
to day experiences regarding the Pattern Languages’ access to water.
