Design & Access Statement - A Statement on a Designs posittion on Climate Change
The design & Access statement is used by Architects and Designers to define a buildings intention, how a design will fit into a location, how it will work, look feel and react to its surroundings, and perhaps how the locality will react to it. It often describes the materials seen on the outside of the building, the balance of components and how they might mellow. The height and symmetry of an elevation in relation to neighbouring buildings. In effect it's a planning statement, a required document when making a planning application. But it can be so much more. It should be a live document, being updated as the design evolves, and in some planning applications this happens, but the Design and access statement seems to be a one-off document never looked at once the application is made. The planning portal, the online website where electronic planning applications are submitted states " A design and access (DAS) statement is a short report accompanying and supporting a plan...