Introduction to
SITE PLANNING
Definition
History
Site Planning process
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What is SITE PLANNING
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Buildings
Roads
Walkway
Trees, garden,
pool (landscape)
Water
Plaza
Pier
environment
Etc.
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Definition
Site planning is the art and science of arranging the
structures on the land and shaping the spaces
between, an arts of arranging USES of land linked
to architecture, engineering, landscape architecture,
and city planning. Site plans locate objects and
activities in SPACE and TIME. These plans may
concern a small cluster of houses, a single building
and its grounds, or something as extensive as a
small community built in a single operation.
Kevin Lynch, Gary Hack; Site Planning, MIT
press, Cambridge 1996
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Scope of work
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No matter sites are large or small,
they must be viewed as part of the
total environment.
Site Planners designate the uses
of land in detail by selecting and
analyzing sites, forming land
use plans, organizing vehicular
and pedestrian circulation,
designing visual form and
materials concepts, readjusting
the existing landforms by design
grading, providing proper
drainage, and finally developing
the construction details
necessary to carry out their
projects.
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Related profession
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Site planning is professionally
exercised directly by landscape
architects, but there are related
profession involved which are
architects, urban and regional
planners, engineers.
On larger commissions the
landscape architect often serve
as a member of a closely
coordinated professional team,
which includes architects,
engineers, planners, and
scientist-advisors.
Urban
Planning
Architec
ture
Site
planning
Landscape
architecture
Civil
engineering
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Environment and quality of life
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Site planning is the organization of the external physical
environment to accommodate human behavior. It deals with the
qualities and locations of structures, land, activities and living
things. It creates a pattern of those elements in space and time,
which will be subject to continuous future management and
change.
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Spirit of place
Character of the place
Nature of the project
Behavioral studies
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Brief History
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Four basic models of site
planning in history
1.Fixing the place
2.Defining the enclosure
3.Sense of order
4.Form of axial
Fixing the space
Sense of order
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Defining the enclosure
The form of axial
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Brief History
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The image and form of the
object building are capable of
fixing a place
Fixing the space
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Brief History
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Defining the enclosure
A collection of independent structures,
which although unattached, create a
coherent image of place
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Brief History
The form of a building can be
such that a place may be fixed
by the enclosure of the facades
Sense of order
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Brief History
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Although the kinetic
implications of the word
“path” are somewhat
contradictory, paths are
nonetheless capable of
forming coherent,
meaningful images.
The form of axial
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Layers of Site Planning
Mass and
space
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Mass and space
Zoning
circulation
Service &
maintenance
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Zoning
Circulation
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The model of Site planning
process
Objectives
Need
Quantity
Time
Behavior
Program
analysis
User & client
data
Site analysis
Site
information
Natural factors
Cultural factors
Aesthetic factors
Synthesis
Site potential
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In site planning, as in
other forms of problem
Cost estimate
solving, the critical
thinking process of
research, analysis,
and synthesis makes a
major contribution to
the formation of design
decisions process.
Schematic
Site plan 1
Situation
Schematic
Site plan 2
Evaluation
Schematic
Site plan 3
Criteria
Selected
Site plan
Development process
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Flow chart of
development process
Development
process
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Defining the
problem
Site&program
analysis
Schemetic design
w/ prelim cost
estimate
Design
development
Development
process
Project
phasing 1
Project
phasing 2
Project
phasing 3
Project
phasing 4
Project
phasing…
Design development &
detail costing
Contract
document
Bidding &
contracting
Construction
Project
inspection
Occupation &
management
Post Occupancy
evaluation
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