To:tajoresnolie@yahoo.com rocks, and water-are scarce and therefore have Feb 12 at 4:47 PM increased value and meaning. (Design approach: utilise natural features to the full, design them into Site Development the scheme, orient them. Earth, plants, and water in the city may well be treated as sculptural or architectural elements. The product of the site-planning process is a conceptual 6. Surrounded by neighbours, one becomes an plan. This is in effect, a diagram of fitting relationships- of integral part of the community, a unit in a group of areas to structure, or area to area, and all to the lay of the related units, an important part of the whole. land. The land uses and their relationship with site 7. Design transitions are a mark of the successful analysis have been explored in a number of quick city house. From the streets to the furthest limits schematics until the best fit is achieved. of the city lot, there is little room for the necessary The plan has been tested and adjusted to minimise its transitions from the din of the passing street to negative impacts and to provide the most of those features areas for quiet family living. desired. 8. A city property has a fishbowl quality resulting from the proximity of neighbors. A logical The conceptual plan - is a preliminary drawing - the orientation of such structures is inward, to private concept, as yet without details or fixed dimensions, and gardens, patios, or courts. intentionally so, for in its detailed development, perhaps in phases, it is subject to change, refinement, and improvement. Upon its approval by the client or other decision makers, it RURAL SITE becomes the reference guideline in the preparation of detailed (working) site development plans and 1. Land area is plentiful - plan is more open, free, specifications. (Stopped here last Feb. 2,2018-their and exploded. The visual limits may include plates has to be submitted on stay foot situation extensive sweeps of the landscape far beyond. The scheme is plan to the horizon ( scope of Site-Structure Expression planning considerations is increased-fence line Plan to the site concept. A project or structure design in geometry, orchards, paddocks, even a harmony with its total site. Therefore the design mountaintop miles away may become design expression would vary from site to site in accordance with factors and elements.) the variation in landscape character. 2. Freedom with open view of fields, woods, and It’s of the varying locations suggest its own intrinsic design sky, is the essential landscape quality. - (orient response. the plan outward to embrace the total site`s best features and to command the best views.) The technique is: 3. The choice of a rural site would indicate a Classify a site according to type desire to be at one with nature. (Not that you CITY LOT have to fence all around your house for security Determine the design characteristics suggested. reasons). ....(make nature appreciation a design aim and theme-insofar as possible-the natural 1. A city lot - plan is compact. Space is limited, plan environment will be disturbed or modified only to forms multiple use of areas and interplay of improve it.)The major landscape features are volumes. It imposes a sense of confinement and stablished. Build to them, feature the best, screen oppression (prolonged cruel or unjust). They build out and de-emphasise those that are less forts to secure themselves. Areas and spaces are desirable, and contrive structural forms in best minute in scale. relation to the natural forms. Site use areas, 2. City streets and pedestrian walks are dominant sympathetically fitted to topographical features, lines of approach, observation and access. maw well dictate the architectural plan Relationship of structure to property lines to city arrangement. streets becomes an important consideration. 4. The landscape is dominant (in character and 3. City streets are a source of noise, fumes and mood). Presumably the site was selected danger. (You provide plan elements adjacent to because of its qualities. If the existing landscape the street to provide noise abatement, depth, character is desirable, it may be preserved and privacy, and security. Perforated visual screens accentuated by the site-structure diagram. If have useful application. alterations are required, we may modify or 4. Climatological speaking, it is a desert of pavement completely change the site aspect, but only in and masonry. Design oasis: make maximum use such a way as to take fullest possible advantage of breeze, shade, shadow patterns, sunscreens, of the existing features. and the refreshing qualities of water in fountain, 5. Earth and ground forms are strong visual pool, or jet spray. elements. A structure conceived in studied relation to ground forms gains in architectural strength and in harmony with the topographical features. 6. The pleasant landscape is one of agreeable transitions. In the planning of transitions between structure and site, intermediate areas relating structure to the land are of key importance. 7. Structures become elements imposed on the landscape. Either structure or site must dominate. Either the site is considered basically a setting for a dominant structure, or the structure is conceived as subordinate to the landscape and designed to complement the natural contours and forms. 8. The rural landscape is a landscape of subtleties (quality of being subtle) of foliage shadings, sky tints, and cloud shadows. Our planning must recognise these qualities and treat them symphatetically , or they will be wasted. 9. In a rural site, one is more exposed to the elements and weather-rain, storms, sun, wind, snow, frost, winter cold, and summer heat. The site structure diagram and architecture should reflect a thorough understanding of adaptation to the climate. 10. A rural site implies increased land area and greater manoeuvrability. The automobiles and pedestrian approaches, important elements in our design, may often be aligned within the property boundaries to reveal the best site and architectural features. 11. The indigenous materials of a rural site-ledge rock, fieldstone, slate, gravels, and timbers - contribute much to its landscape character. The use of such natural materials in buildings, fences, bridges, and walls helps relate structures to their surroundings.
STEEPLY SLOPING SITE (unobstructed inclined plane)
1. Contours are major plan factors. Contour planning
(the alignment of plan elements parallel with the contours) is generally indicated. 2. The areas of relatively equal elevation are narrow bands lying perpendicular to the axis of the slope. Narrow plan forms such as bars or ribbons are suggested. 3.