Republic of the Philippines

DON HONORIO VENTURA STATE UNIVERSITY

Villa de Bacolor, Pampanga

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
A.Y. 2022-2023_1ST Semester

ASYNCHRONOUS ACTIVITY NO. 02

RASONABE, JAZELLA M.
BSAR-4D

AR. MARIA KRISELLE CORTEZ

(PLAN 413 INSTRUCTOR)
1. GROUNDFORM.
Ground form is a permanent formwork system used for applications including pile cap and ground beam construction.
Manufactured from a robust polypropylene material, it is suitable for supporting a maximum depth of 1.2m of concrete
required for ground beams and pile caps.
2. SOIL AND GEOLOGY.
Soil is a thin layer of material that covers the earth's surface and is produced by the gradual weathering of rock
to produce sediments. Weathering can be physical, chemical, or biological. The types of parent material (or rocks
formed throughout geologic history) and how long the soil has been weathering influence the properties of the soil that
is formed.
Geology is the study of the Earth, the materials of which it is made, the structure of those materials, and the
processes acting upon them. It includes the study of organisms that have inhabited our planet. An important part of
geology is the study of how Earth’s materials, structures, processes, and organisms have changed over time.
3. WATER RESOURCES.
Any of the entire range of natural waters that occur on the Earth, regardless of their state (i.e., vapour,
liquid, or solid) and that are of potential use to humans. Of these, the resources most available for use are the
waters of the oceans, rivers, and lakes; other available water resources include groundwater and deep subsurface waters
and glaciers and permanent snowfields.
4. MICROCLIMATE.
A microclimate, as shown by science, is a place in the world that has a local set of atmospheric conditions that
differ from the rest of the areas surrounding the place. These differences may be slight or substantial depending on a
wide range of factors such as the aspect of a given region.
Usually, a microclimate refers to regions that range in sizes. They can range from being a few square feet such as
a garden bed or they can be as large as many square kilometers with unique climatic conditions. Microclimates can be
found in multiple places around the globe. Two main parameters that are used to define a microclimate within a given
area are temperature and humidity.
5. ORIENTATION.
From Latin oriens, orientum, “the rising sun”), in Architecture, the position of a building in relation to an
east-west axis. In Mesopotamia and Egypt, as well as in pre-Columbian Central America, the important features of the
buildings, such as entrances and passages, faced east, in the direction of the rising sun.
Orientation is frequently planned to take maximum advantage of the daily and seasonal variations of the sun’s
radiation. Optimum orientation of a structure is, in the end, a compromise between its function, its location, and the
prevailing environmental factors of heat, light, humidity, and wind.
REFERENCES

Geology + Soil (napawatersheds.org)

Ground Form by Cordek (specifiedby.com)
orientation | architecture | Britannica
water resource | Britannica
What Is A Microclimate? - WorldAtlas