Tajores Nolie <tajoresnolie@yahoo.com>
Natural features-trees, interesting ground forms,
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Feb 12 at 4:47 PM
Site Development
The product of the site-planning process is a conceptual
plan. This is in effect, a diagram of fitting relationships- of
areas to structure, or area to area, and all to the lay of the
land. The land uses and their relationship with site
analysis have been explored in a number of quick
schematics until the best fit is achieved.
The plan has been tested and adjusted to minimise its
negative impacts and to provide the most of those features
desired.
The conceptual plan - is a preliminary drawing - the
concept, as yet without details or fixed dimensions, and
intentionally so, for in its detailed development, perhaps in
phases, it is subject to change, refinement, and
improvement.
Upon its approval by the client or other decision makers, it
becomes the reference guideline in the preparation of
detailed (working) site development plans and
specifications. (Stopped here last Feb. 2,2018-their
plates has to be submitted on stay foot situation
Site-Structure Expression
Plan to the site concept. A project or structure design in
harmony with its total site. Therefore the design
expression would vary from site to site in accordance with
the variation in landscape character.
It’s of the varying locations suggest its own intrinsic design
response.
The technique is:
Classify a site according to type
CITY LOT
Determine the design characteristics suggested.
1. A city lot - plan is compact. Space is limited, plan
forms multiple use of areas and interplay of
volumes. It imposes a sense of confinement and
oppression (prolonged cruel or unjust). They build
forts to secure themselves. Areas and spaces are
minute in scale.
2. City streets and pedestrian walks are dominant
lines of approach, observation and access.
Relationship of structure to property lines to city
streets becomes an important consideration.
3. City streets are a source of noise, fumes and
danger. (You provide plan elements adjacent to
the street to provide noise abatement, depth,
privacy, and security. Perforated visual screens
have useful application.
4. Climatological speaking, it is a desert of pavement
and masonry. Design oasis: make maximum use
of breeze, shade, shadow patterns, sunscreens,
and the refreshing qualities of water in fountain,
pool, or jet spray.
5.
rocks, and water-are scarce and therefore have
increased value and meaning. (Design approach:
utilise natural features to the full, design them into
the scheme, orient them. Earth, plants, and water
in the city may well be treated as sculptural or
architectural elements.
6. Surrounded by neighbours, one becomes an
integral part of the community, a unit in a group of
related units, an important part of the whole.
7. Design transitions are a mark of the successful
city house. From the streets to the furthest limits
of the city lot, there is little room for the necessary
transitions from the din of the passing street to
areas for quiet family living.
8. A city property has a fishbowl quality resulting
from the proximity of neighbors. A logical
orientation of such structures is inward, to private
gardens, patios, or courts.
RURAL SITE
1. Land area is plentiful - plan is more open, free,
and exploded. The visual limits may include
extensive sweeps of the landscape far beyond.
The scheme is plan to the horizon ( scope of
planning considerations is increased-fence line
geometry, orchards, paddocks, even a
mountaintop miles away may become design
factors and elements.)
2. Freedom with open view of fields, woods, and
sky, is the essential landscape quality. - (orient
the plan outward to embrace the total site`s best
features and to command the best views.)
3. The choice of a rural site would indicate a
desire to be at one with nature. (Not that you
have to fence all around your house for security
reasons). ....(make nature appreciation a design
aim and theme-insofar as possible-the natural
environment will be disturbed or modified only to
improve it.)The major landscape features are
stablished. Build to them, feature the best, screen
out and de-emphasise those that are less
desirable, and contrive structural forms in best
relation to the natural forms. Site use areas,
sympathetically fitted to topographical features,
maw well dictate the architectural plan
arrangement.
4. The landscape is dominant (in character and
mood). Presumably the site was selected
because of its qualities. If the existing landscape
character is desirable, it may be preserved and
accentuated by the site-structure diagram. If
alterations are required, we may modify or
completely change the site aspect, but only in
such a way as to take fullest possible advantage
of the existing features.
5. Earth and ground forms are strong visual
elements. A structure conceived in studied
relation to ground forms gains in architectural
 strength and in harmony with the topographical
features.
6. The pleasant landscape is one of agreeable
transitions. In the planning of transitions between
structure and site, intermediate areas relating
structure to the land are of key importance.
7. Structures become elements imposed on the
landscape. Either structure or site must dominate.
Either the site is considered basically a setting for
a dominant structure, or the structure is conceived
as subordinate to the landscape and designed to
complement the natural contours and forms.
8. The rural landscape is a landscape of
subtleties (quality of being subtle) of foliage
shadings, sky tints, and cloud shadows. Our
planning must recognise these qualities and treat
them symphatetically , or they will be wasted.
9. In a rural site, one is more exposed to the
elements and weather-rain, storms, sun, wind,
snow, frost, winter cold, and summer heat. The
site structure diagram and architecture should
reflect a thorough understanding of adaptation to
the climate.
10. A rural site implies increased land area and
greater manoeuvrability. The automobiles and
pedestrian approaches, important elements in our
design, may often be aligned within the property
boundaries to reveal the best site and
architectural features.
11. The indigenous materials of a rural site-ledge
rock, fieldstone, slate, gravels, and timbers -
contribute much to its landscape character. The
use of such natural materials in buildings, fences,
bridges, and walls helps relate structures to their
surroundings.

STEEPLY SLOPING SITE (unobstructed inclined plane)

1. Contours are major plan factors. Contour planning

(the alignment of plan elements parallel with the
contours) is generally indicated.
2. The areas of relatively equal elevation are narrow
bands lying perpendicular to the axis of the slope.
Narrow plan forms such as bars or ribbons are
suggested.
3.