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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

Metropolitan Sanction

London

Public buildings are permitted to surpass the otherwise generally valid height limits up to a maximum height of 30 m.

Rule category

Motivation
Managing Bulk: basic stipulations regarding the object's form and bulk
The Kind of Rule
Rule that stipulates a fixed limit.
Rule that is tied to a certain zone.
Rule that stipulates an upper limit.
Domain
Rule that regulates building heights.
Scale
Neighborhood Rule: Rule that works at neighborhood scale.