Introduction to

SITE PLANNING
Definition
History
Site Planning process
INSTRUCTOR: AR. DAVID A. BAUTISTA
PHINMA UNIVERSITY OF PANGASINAN
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
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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 art
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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 No matter sites are large or small,
they must be viewed as part of the
total environment.
Scope of work
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
Site planning is
professionally
exercised directly by Urban
landscape architects, Planning
but there are related
profession involved
which are architects,
urban and regional Landscape
planners, engineers. Architec Site architecture
On larger commissions ture planning
the landscape architect
often serve as a member
of a closely
coordinated Civil
professional team, engineering
which includes
architects, engineers,
planners, and scientist-
advisors.
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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

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Brief History
Four basic models
of site planning in
history
1.Fixing the place Defining the enclosure
Fixing the space

2.Defining the
enclosure
3.Sense of order
4.Form of axial
Sense of order The form of axial

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 Brief History
The image and form of
the object building are
capable of fixing a
place

Fixing the space

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Brief History Defining the enclosure

A collection of independent
structures, which although
unattached, create a coherent
image of place

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 The form of a building
can be such that a place
may be fixed by the
Brief History enclosure of the
facades

Sense of order

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 Brief History
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
Mass and space
Zoning
Zoning
circulation Circulation
Service &
maintenance Service &
maintenance

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 The model of Site planning
process
Objectives

Natural
Need factors
Quantity Program Site Site
User & informatio Cultural
Time analysis analysis
client data
In site planning, Behavior n factors
Aesthetic

as in other forms factors

of problem Synthesis
Site potential
solving, the
critical thinking
Schemati Schema Schema
process of Cost
estimate c tic tic Site
Site plan Site plan 3
research, 1 plan 2

analysis, and
synthesis makes a Situati Evaluation Criteria
major on

contribution to
the formation of Selected
design decisions Site plan
process.
Development
process
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 Flow chart of
development process
Development
process

Defining the
problem Project Project Project Project Project
phasing 1 phasing 2 phasing 3 phasing 4 phasing
Site&program
analysis Design development &
detail costing
Schemetic
Contract
design w/ document
prelim cost Bidding &
estimate contracting

Design Construction

development
Project
Development inspection

process Occupation &

management

Post Occupancy
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