SITE extensive as a small community

●​ any area which has played a built in a single operation.

significant role in the history of our
country. Significance: Historical, SITE ELEMENTS
Cultural, Archaeological, ●​ Foreground
Sociological, and Scientific. ●​ Building Area
●​ Service Area
●​ A space or ground occupied or to ●​ Play Area
be occupied by a building or a ●​ Private Area
concentration of building ●​ Entourage
developments or human activities
that fall under the same land use SCOPE OF WORK
category. ●​ No matter sites are large or small,
they must be viewed as part of the
●​ Through site planning, a site is total environment.
made suitable for building ●​ Site planners designate the uses of
purposes, human activities, or life land in detail by:
sustaining processes. ❖​ SELECTING and
ANALYZING sites
RELATED PROFESSION ❖​ FORMING land use plans
●​ SITE PLANNING is professionally ❖​ ORGANIZING vehicular
exercised directly by landscape and pedestrian circulation
architects, but there are related ❖​ DESIGNING visual form
profession involved which are and materials concepts
architects, urban and regional ❖​ READJUSTING the
planners, and engineers. existing landforms by
●​ On larger commissions, the design grading
landscape architect often serve ❖​ PROVIDING proper
as a member of a closely drainage and finally
coordinated professional team, ❖​ DEVELOPING the
which includes architects, construction details
engineer, planners, and necessary to carry out the
scientist-advisors. projects.

SITE PLANNING IMPORTANCE OF SITE PLANNING

●​ The art and science of arranging TO ARCHITECTURE
the structures on the land and ●​ As consideration for orientation
shaping the spaces between, an ●​ Controls the position of buildings
arts of arranging USES of land ●​ Controls appropriate plan shapes
linked to architecture, engineering, ●​ Dictates position of rooms, entry,
landscape architecture and city exits
planning. ●​ Affects architectural design of
●​ Site plans locate objects and buildings
activities in SPACE and TIME. ●​ As a requirement for building
These plans may concern a small permit
cluster of houses, a single building
and its grounds, or something as
FOUR BASIC MODELS OF SITE We expect our interests to prevail,
PLANNING IN HISTORY yet we must at least consider those
1.​ Fixing the place/ space of the existing occupants. This is
-​ The image and form of the vital even in selfish terms, since if
object building are capable we know the interconnections of
of fixing a place the existing system,we are less
likely to set off some inadvertent
2.​ Defining the enclosure disaster: severe erosion, an
-​ A collection of independent explosive invasion of weeds, or a
structures, which although drop in the water table. Thus site
unattached, create a analysis has two branches-the one
coherent image of place oriented to our particular
3.​ Sense of order purpose and the other to the site
-​ The form of a building can itself.
be such that a place may
be fixed by the enclosure of SITE ANALYSIS
the facades ●​ is the analysis of the building site
4.​ Form of axial which includes the assessment of
-​ Although the kinetic its better features as well as its
implications of the words constraints and liabilities
“path” are somewhat ●​ is a vital step in the design
contradictory, paths are process. It involves the evaluation
nonetheless capable of of an existing or potential site in
forming coherent, relation to the development
meaningful images. program, environmental impact,
impacts on the community and
adjacent properties, project
budget, and schedule.
●​ identifies environmental, program,
and development constraints and
opportunities. A well-executed
site analysis forms the essential
foundation for a cost-effective,
environmentally sensitive, and
rational approach to project
development.

Where to start? - From SITE ANALYSIS SITE APPRECIATION AND

onwards ANALYSIS CAN BE EARNED OUT IN
EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING TWO
SITE PLANNING by Kevin Lynch SITUATION:
and Gary Hack ●​ SITE FACTORS- those relating to
●​ The site is analyzed for fitness to the characteristics of the site
purpose but also in its own right as ●​ USE FACTORS - those relating to
a living, changing community of the proposed use of the site, i.e.
plants and animals. Such a the building program.
community has its own interests.
 ●​ Where the proposed use of the
site is predetermined, and site
analysis and site planning are
concerned with determining, how
best the proposed use can be fitted
to the site.
●​ In particularly large scale regional
situations site appreciation and
analysis may be carried out to
determine what the land is best
suited for.
●​ Whereas the first type of situation
relates to the architectural scale
(e.g. site planning of housing.
campuses etc.) the second is
concerned with decisions at the
town planning and landscape
planning scale.
●​ Whenever a site is to be developed
for a particular building program,
two sets of factors have to be
considered.

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

How to start?- PLANNING PROCESS

JOHN SIMOND’S PLANNING-
DESIGN PROCESS 3 GENERAL ACTIVITIES OF THE
PLANNING-DESIGN PROCESS
1.​ RESEARCH
●​ Program Development
●​ Site Inventory
2.​ ANALYSIS
●​ Site Analysis
3.​ SYNTHESIS
●​ Conceptual Design
●​ Preliminary Design
●​ Site Plan/ Master Plan

SYNTHESIS GAP
●​ SYNTHESIS- combining of
various components into whole:
the process of combining
different ideas, influences, or
objects into a new whole.

●​ If the pre-design has been

skimpy or inadequate, the METHODS OF SURVEY
synthesis gap will be wider and ●​ A survey is a checklist of
more difficult to manage. information or data pertaining to a
site. Such a list would be drawn up
after an initial analysis of the
problem. To guide the first survey,
information would be gathered
●​ If the pre-design has been continuously as the problem
thorough and insightful, the develops.
synthesis gap will be narrower
and easier to manage:
SITE PLANNING AND ATTRIBUTES
●​ Physical Attributes

●​ Biological Attributes

●​ Cultural Attributes

●​ Land Use Suitability