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ABSTRACT
Redevelopment Movement of West Rembo for improving Riverside people into
a more productive living in a sustainable community is a key solution to start an urban
revolution in countrys city scheme. Strategies and techniques given by related studies
of the other people gives the way for features can be applied for the proposed
conceptual planning development. This paper analyzes Barangay West Rembo as the
prospect community further studied through the area profile and the existing condition of
the environment and the local mobility. Through the given facts and natural features the
barangay has, redevelopment is constructed with the strengths, weaknesses, threats
and opportunities the area possessed. Through collective collaboration of minds,
diagrams and sketches are given to reach the approach of the goal of sustainability.
by linking urban rehabilitation with social and ecological objectives produced
alternative, but ultimately normative models of urban regeneration but of global interest.
processes of advocacy, participation, and self-building for the socially engaged and
responsible restoration and maintenance of old tenements, new forms of responsibility
and ownership, the provision of green spaces and social infrastructure I intend to
provide a historically argued contribution to the current debate on sustainability and the
city, by not only by highlighting planning processes, but by challenging the dimensions
of the ecological and the social.
INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND
HISTORY
West Rembo is one historic barangay. Though not much document can still
support this claim, it is evidently concretized by the presence of the old Ermita de San
Nicolas, the Church established by the Augustinian friars during the Spanish
colonization of the of the Philippines. It is believed that the first settlers of this barangay
were Chinese traders settled near the banks of Pasig River. This account is based on
the writings of an anthropologist historian who went around conducting his research and
study during the American occupation of this country. The richness of our historical and
cultural past may still yet to be accounted for but structural evidence, at the moment,
would suffice to say that this particular locality started not by the name it is known today.
When Fort Bonifacio was designated to be the home of the Philippine Army,
B/Gen Alfonso Arellano, the Commanding General of the Philippine Army at that time,
relocated inhabitants of the nearby barrio to a well-situated area, which is now known as
BARANGAY WEST REMBO. REMBO is actually an acronym for Riverside Enlisted
Mens Barrio.
Military authorities used to appoint the Barangay Leaders until 1982, when the
Commission on Elections authorized the residents of Fort Bonifacio to elect their
Barangay Leader that has been elected as Barangay Chief, a non-military personnel
and the one who rose from the Sangguniang Kabataan and Barangay Kagawad.
With the leadership of the City Government and Barangay Leaders, Barangay
West Rembo attained a milestone in terms of development. They stood up to the vision
of transforming West Rembo as Makatis Center for Education and Cultural Affairs.
Among these transformations were the establishments of modern public schools, like
the presence of the University of Makati. Fort Bonifacio High School, Fort Bonifacio
Elementary School and West Rembo Elementary School, Barangay Hall, Sports
Complex, Peoples Park, concrete curbs and gutters with improved drainage systems.
West Rembo is considered as the Citys Center of Education and Cultural Affairs.
Cultural shows are held constantly at the beautiful and picturesque Makati Park and
Garden, which has undergone several improvements from being a mediocre landscape
to an embellished luminously peoples park.
Under her competent leadership, the intensification of resources and the
availability and speedy delivery of services to the people of Barangay West Rembo is
being realized in her councils theme program ITULOY AND PROGRESO SA
BARANGAY WEST REMBO which is also geared toward providing quality services as
SERBISYONG LUBOS.. MAKAKALIKASAN, MAKATAO, MAKADIYOS
In identifying programs and development projects, interest groups, non-
government organizations, political organizations and volunteer citizens are regularly
consulted through public hearing and dialogues where views are being respected. This
approach paved the way to peoples active involvement in community development and
has encouraged stakeholders and linkages in the community to practice participative
governance.
When talking about infrastructures, livelihood, cleanliness, peace and order and
sanitation, Barangay West Rembo is regarded as the pilot Barngay in Makati City. At
the onset of her new administration, the Barangay and its residents are perfectly going
towards their vision of a progressive community.
West Rembo is now equipped to achieve what what it has set to attain for its
inhabitants, a barangay which every resident will call their own West Rembo
Progresibo at Aktibo.. Iyan ang Barangay Ko..
VISION
Barangay West Rembo will be the forerunner in the field of education and
culture, cleanliness and beautification, social services, peace and order, health
sanitation infrastructure, youth and sports development in District II in the City of Makati
West Rembo will be a caring and learning community that transforms residents into
model individuals who are productive, skillful, independent, efficient, useful, self-
resilient, and responsible citizens of Makati, the Philippines, and the Global Community.
MISSION
Barangay West Rembos primary mission is to realize its commitment in
improving quality services through well-balanced programs, projects and activities that
foster the residents personal and professional growth relative to their moral, social,
spiritual, political, emotional and ecological responsibilities in a gender-responsive
government.

BASIC FACTS ABOUT BARANGAY WEST REMBO
GEOGRAPHIC & DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE
A. Location
Located in District II in the city of Makati, Barangay West Rembo is
bounded on the North by Pasig River, on the EAST by C-5, on the SOUTH by
Global City Taguig and on the WEST, Barangay Cembo. Barangay West Rembo
is divided into eight (8) sitios with 56 streets and one of the 33 barangays in the
City Of Makati. West Rembo is an acronym for WEST RIVERSIDE ENLISTED
MENS BARRIO.
B. Demography
Land Area 54.7 hectares
Total Population (as of 2012) Total: 28, 936
Male: 14467 Female: 14469
Total Number of Registered Voters (as of 2013) 25, 196
Estimated Number of Households (as of 2012) 5787
Average Household Size Five (5) heads per
household
Population Density 0.595 per person per
square meter
No. of streets 56
No. of sitios 8
Boundaries North: Pasig River
South: Global City
Taguig
East: C-5
West: Barangay Cembo
The community of West Rembo was established on October 4, 1954.



OBJECTIVES
- To develop the site in a very smart way
- To provide design solutions in the critical existing condition in the site
- To develop the site without destructing its natural beauty
- To render high quality maintenance so that the urban setting may sustain
for a long period of time
- To transform a developed land into a useful features of the community and
to bring in tourism as well
SCOPE AND LIMITATION
Makati districts have been known for the known developed organized system of the
government implementation in its urban setting but a sustaining quality of local
environment and quality of life for the people to experience in the community is not
managed to a long-term program utilized to improve the standards of city in the country
into a pedestrian-friendly place.
PHYSICAL COMPONENT STUDY
USERS BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS
URBAN DESIGN EXPLORATIONS
POTENTIAL PROJECT COMPONENT EXPLORATIONS
FOCUS ON URBAN REVITALIZATION
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC COMPONENT STUDY


STRATEGIES
- Develop the land without sacrificing its natural condition as much as
impossible
- Render extensive care for the development
- Too strategic to be undeveloped or underdeveloped
- Use a design technique which renders sustainable approach so that locals
benefit with its technologies and facilities
EFFECTIVE STREET-SCALE URBAN REDESIGN
GREENERY vegetation along streets, public grounds, private grounds
and gardens, and on facades, windows, and balconies,
controlling for sex, age, and socioeconomic status
WALKABILITY high: higher density characterized by a mix of single and
multifamilyresidences with nonresidential land uses; mostly
street grid with good connectivity
low: single family-residences on curvilinear streets with cul-
de-sacs and commercial on outskirts of neighborhood both
neighborhoods with similar median income
CONNECTIVITY household zones rated on a pedestrian environment scale
including ease of street crossing, sidewalk continuity, local
street characteristics, and topography
LIGHTING identified poorly lit areas and improved lighting; compared
physical activity before and after lighting improvements
BIKEABILITY promoted biking, converted four-lane road to two lanes with
biking and parking, narrowed streets, and planted trees
AESTHETICS attractive, friendly, and pleasant walking near home,
controlling for sex, age, and education
CONVENIENCE high neighborhood convenience compared to low
neighborhood convenience, defined as shops, park, beach,
or bike path within walking distance near home, controlling
for sex, age, and education

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
SUSTAINABLE URBANISM
You never change things by fighting the existing reality, build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete. R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
THE TEN PRINCIPLES OF SMART GROWTH
1. Create a range of housing opportunities and choices
2. Create a walkable neighborhoods
3. Encourage community and stakeholder
4. Foster distinctive, attractive places with a strong sense of place
5. Make development precisions predictable, fair and cost-effective
6. Mix land uses
7. Preserve open spaces, farmland, natural beauty and critical
environmental areas
8. Provides a variety of transportation choices
9. Strengthen and direct development toward existing communities
10. Take advantage of compact building design
CIAM PHILOSOPHY
1. humanistic reforms
dignified shelter, enhanced sanitation and health
2. enthusiastic embrace of use of cars
3. a preoccupation with modernist architectural styles and rational
(one size fits all) solutions
Form identifiable areas that encourage citizens to take responsibility for their
maintenance and evolution.

This development will serve as a proposed improvement that could be applied in
the future study of new community to be developed with the same existing condition. It
will not only provide a distinguish example for the society but also improve the value of
the community. With the design solutions offered, it will attract tourists as well as locals
to invest in nature and healthy living. While retaining and improving the natural
landscapes and vegetation, a space that is livable not only for many species will be
created- a place which the Makati constituents can truly be proud of.








SITE CRITERIA:
MAJOR CRITERIA
SITE FACTORS
-size and cost
- access and utilities
-physical constraints
-land use regulations (easements and zoning)
CONTEXTUAL FACTORS
-transportation
-market or service area
-physical conditions
(access to utilities: energy, water,waste treatment)
(access to services: police,fire,schools,recreation)
(access to transportation)
(visibiliy/visual quality)
(absence of hazards)
regulatory climate
-political environment
-hazards
MINOR CRITERIA
constraints and opportunities
capacity
-access/transportation
-utilities
-zoning
-usable space
compatibility
-political environment
-physical constraints
-community character


EVALUATING SITE SUITABILITY
Improved function of the proposed land uses
Greater convenience for the sites users
Enhanced aesthetics
Fewer negative environmental impacts
Reduced construction, operation, and maintenance cost

SITE JUSTIFICATION AND OBJECTIVE
- Strategically, the site is located adjacent in the CBD central business district of
Ayala Land, Makati.
- The site is located near the water body, the Pasig river, which is said to be the
essential in the commerce and trade in history. We can further rehabilitate and use it to
improve the economic activity around the surrounding proximity.
- It has a figure of population of 52 person per square meter making it a
sustaining community to build a development.
- Mostly, it is residential thus the development that can be planned for the site is
a beneficial factor with the adjacent cities and district. Also, it is creating a unified
design approach where the user is the center of design solution, providing a sustainable
livable habitat for humanity and building a contributing community in the country.
- Data also show that social services and utilities are provided in the community
so the improvement in the study is to create an efficient distribution of the services to
everyone. the planning can also introduced an efficient use of the resources, decreasing
the demand of consumption of the usual basic household needs.
- Also, the common struggles of community today are flooding and traffic
congestion that is root of other problems. The redevelopment could create a strategic
plan that would address solutions in the global issue with the built society we have
today. It is to create a safety measures to slowly resolve the crisis it brought in the
cities. This study can be beneficial to other related studies.
-The road distribution of the past year in the urban scheme is a major issue that
is unsolvable in a short term. Thus, the development to be done in the community can
contribute a solution by promoting an effective city transportation scheme where
decrease of road usage but a convenient and economic improvement is introduced.
-The urbanization cause degradation of the natural environment of most
communities thus the study will create a rehabilitation that creates a living community
in balance with the respect with the ecosystem that is the root of all the resources
people need,
-The development can be a key of recreating a unique identity that is not to be
seen by people as symbolic figure but an image that all the constituents can lived by.
- The site has potential with the existing educational and parks. This can be
further study to sustain the goal of a new city development.
- The common problem of urban planning in the country is the unequal
distribution of development in the whole city. Large production is prioritized in the other
side but the development to consider in the least side is unimproved.
- Thus, the target of urban development in the chosen site is a good study to
initiate for it could create a balance approach of redeveloping a community that is
adjacent to a known developed site.