What is a Design Review?
The DRB meets twice monthly to review applications and make recommendations to homeowners based on their submitted plan. It is here that an application will be approved or denied. Design Review applications and instructions can be obtained from The Farm website and must be submitted to Hammersmith. See See DRB.
The City of Pleasanton’s Design Review process is intended to preserve and enhance the city’s aesthetic values, as well as the public health, safety, and general welfare. The City promotes the construction of structures in proper relationship to their site and the surrounding area through originality in site planning, architecture, landscaping, and design. Design Review was established to review new structures, including exterior alterations and enlargements to existing buildings. The elements considered during the design review process include exterior architecture, materials, textures, colors, landscaping, parking, and illumination. The concurrent review of signage is encouraged at the time of design review to ensure compatibility of building or site signs with architecture and other features of the project. If any signage is proposed, the location, design, and details of the sign(s) should be clearly shown in the appropriate scale on the required exhibits. Prior to the submittal of
A design review is a process of quality management which consists of three stages: input / output / verification. More specifically, a review is an analysis to evaluate requirements and the capability of the design to meet these requirements, to identify problems and to propose solutions. The capability of the design includes aspects such as utility, performance, target public, user needs, access and retrieval, interface, life cycle cost, environmental factors, marketing, reproduction, storage and dissemination. The review process is a practical tool when developing a product and helps to ensure that design is effectively managed and utilized. Other advantages are better coordination, clarity of procedure, improved budget control and time scheduling. While reviews will raise the awareness of the design process, it is clear that a review by itself does not ensure proper design. Design reviews are used in many fields and industries. The concept was adopted by ISO (International Organizat
In a design review, a group of “reviewers” evaluate a design and implementation project done by a group of “designers”. The reviewers get a copy of all documents produced by the designers, and they get a chance to ask the designers questions in a face-to-face meeting. Design reviews are an important part of security practice in the real world. Bringing in a set of “fresh eyes” to look over a project, and requiring the designers to go through the exercise of justifying their design, can provide invaluable improvement in a design. Done properly, design review is not an adversarial process. The designers must approach the review as an opportunity to learn; the reviewers must approach the review with an attitude of respect for the designers and for what they have done right. The key is to take a “bugs are good” attitude — you know the bugs are there, and you’re happy to find them so you can exterminate them.
