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SITE ANALYSIS PLANNING 1 PREPARED BY: AR. ARCHEMEDES G. WABE  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Sieve Mapping Technique ‘Sieve mapping’ is a constraints and opportunities mapping process that builds up a number of geographical layers to produce a visual representat...

SITE ANALYSIS PLANNING 1 PREPARED BY: AR. ARCHEMEDES G. WABE  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Sieve Mapping Technique ‘Sieve mapping’ is a constraints and opportunities mapping process that builds up a number of geographical layers to produce a visual representation of areas that show less (or more) potential for future settlement growth. Akaroa Harbour Basin Settlements Study September 2008 2 9/17/2023 Add a footer  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Sieve Mapping Technique The base data can be in the form of aerial photos, topographic map and other thematic maps where aspect maps can be derived. Aspect map A map dealing with only one factor. They are usually derived from the original thematic maps which are professional interpretations of base data into customized categories. 3 9/17/2023 Add a footer  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Sieve Mapping By carrying out sieve analysis, you can locate the areas where there are physical constraints on the use of lands for urban purposes. By placing at a time the overlays on the base map, the sum of the areas marked upon by the overlays can be built up on a single transparent sheet that each time is placed over the others and upon which any marked areas are placed. The result is a map showing all those areas where there is constraint upon the use of the land for urban purposes. 4 9/17/2023 Add a footer  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Sieve Mapping At the same time the blank areas where nothing is marked indicates areas where the best opportunities are for development to take place. This classical method can be done faster and more accurately by GIS. By overlaying maps, a new data set with new entities and attributes is created. 5 9/17/2023 Add a footer  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Site Constraints Difficult Sites Requires comparatively more time and money before, during, and after construction. Steep slopes Building foundations on steep slopes must be more complex—perhaps stepping down a hillside—and are, therefore, more costly to construct. Poor Site drainage & Unstable subsurface materials Additional design and construction effort is needed to ensure the building’s structural integrity. Construction process is also more complicated if the site is more vulnerable to development impacts such as soil erosion, groundwater contamination, and the degradation of critical wildlife habitat. 6 9/17/2023 Add a footer  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Site Constraints Natural Hazards Ignoring or discounting potential hazards can lead to expensive—even deadly—disasters. Natural hazards that may impact a site are often weather related. During periods of good weather, the dangers may be absent, but the danger is greatest when relatively infrequent, but severe, weather events occur. Earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural hazards occur at infrequent intervals. The recurring nature of these events suggests, however, that it’s not a question of if, but when, a specific event will occur. 7 9/17/2023 Add a footer  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Site Constraints Legal and Cultural Constraints A broad array of contextual information is needed to ensure that new buildings and other site elements will be visually and functionally compatible with the surrounding cultural context. Urban structure, for example, is an important contextual element that may not be obvious from the ground. The search for order and pattern should be part of the inventory and analysis process. Within an urban context, patterns of mass and space, and the relationships between these basic urban building blocks, can be assessed, in part, with figure- ground diagrams. The assessment of context involves identifying neighborhood and community spaces and determining https://www.firstinarchitecture.co.uk/architecture- what activities and symbolic values are associated with site-analysis-guide-2/ those spaces. 8 9/17/2023 Add a footer  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Site Opportunities A site analysis focuses on more than just site constraints, although this alone is enough to justify this activity. Significant site amenities have social, economic, ecological, and aesthetic value. These might include: specimen trees scenic views to natural features such as water or landforms, landmark buildings, etc. These physical assets, if integrated within a development plan, can preserve a site’s sense of place and enhance quality of life for future site users. 9 9/17/2023 Add a footer  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS https://www.bptw.co.uk/sketchbooks/understandi 10 9/17/2023 Add a footer ng-constraints-opportunities-and-character/  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS https://www.bptw.co.uk/sketchbooks/understandi 11 9/17/2023 Add a footer ng-constraints-opportunities-and-character/  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Site Opportunities Sense of Place A community’s character or sense of place results, in part, from the following factors: size, massing, Architectural design, Burnham Park (Manila Bulletin, 2021) placement of buildings Streetscape design Open spaces, Native landforms, Local vegetation and wildlife, etc. Older, architecturally significant buildings are very important cultural components. 12 9/17/2023 Add a footer  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Site Opportunities Sense of Place Regional identity is connected with the peculiar characteristics of a location... It is what a place has when it somehow belongs to its location and nowhere Banaue Rice Terraces (Unusualtraveler,2021) else. (Michael Hough, 1990) It has to do, therefore, with two fundamental criteria: Natural processes of the region or locality—what nature has put there Social processes—what people have put there. 13 9/17/2023 Add a footer  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Site Opportunities Placelessness (counter to the sense of place) New development that does not respond to local site conditions—including the surrounding context—contributes to placelessness. 20 Fenchurch Street It occurs when buildings are constructed, and ”The Walkie-Talkie”, sites are developed in ways that are not London adapted to the site’s historical and environmental context. It also results from a lack of attention to ‘‘space making.’’ Often, little or no attention is given to the creation of outdoor open spaces, their spatial organization and connectivity, or to their furnishing and refinement. 14 9/17/2023 Add a footer  INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS Site Opportunities Cultural Significance Our sense of hearing, sight, and smell help us form impressions about the quality of the environment. Our perceptions of a site could be determined, for example, by views of utility lines, parking lots, and by noise from commercial operations or from traffic on nearby highways. Environmental preferences drive our behavior UP Diliman Oval (Pinoy Fitness,2020) concerning where we live, shop, work, and play. Analyses of the built environment examine how—and why—people use, or avoid, outdoor spaces. Amenities, as well as nuisances, play an important role in determining the desirability of a particular location. 15 9/17/2023 Add a footer  SWOT ANALYSIS Used to the find strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the site and surroundings with respect to the project which we are going to construct on the site. The swot analysis process includes understanding the site and its surrounding in every aspect whether it is positive or negative to the project. https://buildcivil.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/site-analysis// 16 9/17/2023 Add a footer  SWOT ANALYSIS Strength Strengths are the things on site that are in favor of our project. Weaknesses Weaknesses are the things on site that are not in favor of our project. These weaknesses are present on the site and can be overcome with design solutions. https://iarchitect.in/swot-analysis-in-architecture/ 17 9/17/2023 Add a footer  SWOT ANALYSIS Opportunities Opportunities are the things on and outside the site that can be used to enhance the design and usability of the building that will be constructed on the site. Threats Threats are the things on and outside the site that can cause problems for the project in the future. https://iarchitect.in/swot-analysis-in-architecture/ 18 9/17/2023 Add a footer 19 9/17/2023 Add a footer  https://www.novatr.co m/blog/site-analysis- categories-you-need- to-cover-for-your- architecture-thesis- project 20 9/17/2023 Add a footer 21 9/17/2023 Add a footer www.aucklanddesignmanual.co.nz 22 9/17/2023 Add a footer https://www.studypool.com/documents/4592507/architecture-site-analysis-example  REFERENCE: 23