Introduction to SITE PLANNING

Definition History Site Planning process

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What is SITE PLANNING

         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 activities in

SPACE

and

TIME USES

of land linked to architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, and city planning. Site plans locate objects and . 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

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,

designing

grading, projects.

organizing

and pedestrian circulation, visual form and materials concepts, the existing landforms by design

providing

proper drainage, and finally

readjusting developing

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Related profession

  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.

Architec ture Urban Planning Site planning Civil engineering Landscape architecture

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Environment and quality of life

 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.     Spirit of place Character of the place Nature of the project Behavioral studies /Apinya/KMUTTarc354intro to site planning 9/3/2004 6

Brief History

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Four basic models of site planning in history

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Brief History

 The image and form of the object building are capable of fixing a place 9/3/2004 Fixing the space /Apinya/KMUTTarc354intro to site planning 8

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 A collection of independent structures, which although unattached, create a coherent image of place Defining the enclosure 9/3/2004 /Apinya/KMUTTarc354intro to site planning 9

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 The form of a building can be such that a place may be fixed by the enclosure of the facades Sense of order 9/3/2004 /Apinya/KMUTTarc354intro to site planning 10

Brief History

 Although the kinetic implications of the word “path” are somewhat contradictory, paths are nonetheless capable of forming coherent, meaningful images.

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Layers of Site Planning

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Mass and space

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Zoning

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circulation

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Service & maintenance

Mass and space Zoning Circulation Service & maintenance

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The model of Site planning process

Time Behavior User & client data Program analysis Objectives Site analysis Site information Natural factors Cultural factors Aesthetic factors Synthesis Site potential  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.

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Flow chart of development process

     Defining the problem Site&program analysis Schemetic design w/ prelim cost estimate Design development Development process 9/3/2004 Project phasing 1 Project phasing 2 Project phasing 3 Design development & detail costing Contract document Bidding & contracting Construction Project phasing 4 Project inspection Occupation & management Post Occupancy evaluation /Apinya/KMUTTarc354intro to site planning Project phasing… 14