INTEGRATED DESIGN PROJECT III, 5TH YEAR I SEMISTER

TASK
PROJECT TITLE
SITE ANALYSIS

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN WITH TECHNOLOGY

GROUP MEMBERS ID no
Neamin behaylu ugr/172013/12
Meselech amsalu ugr/170870/12
Dawit debelo ugr/171719/12
Nathnael alemayew ugr/171605/12
 LOCATION MAP
-Arbaminch city is a city and separate woreda in southern Ethiopia. Located in the gamo
zone of the south Ethiopia region about 500km south of addis ababa, at an elevation of
1285m abouve sea level.it is the largest town in gam zone. It surrounded by arbaminch zuria
woreda.
-Arbaminch received its name for the abundant local springs which produce a ground water
FROM THE SITE TO THE BUS STATION DISTANCE IS forest. Located at the base of western side of the great rift valley, arbaminch consists of
-850 M the uptown administrative centre of shecha and 4km away the downtown commercial and
-3 MIN WITH CAR residential areas of sikela, which are connected by apaved road. On the eastern side of
- 15 MIN WITH WALK sikela is the gate to nechisar national park, which covers the isthmus between lake abaya to
the north and lake chamo to the south. Buses and taxis connect the uptown and downtown
this kind of transportation access gives our site a good parts;both parts have schools. Kulfo river flows through the town and drains into lake cha-
opportunities to be easly accessible from every where mo.
-The selected site is located at the heart of arbamnch city, where the main activity of
the site is predominantly commercial and religious area,
FROM THE SITE TO THE AIR- -Site dimensions 134m*95m
PORT DISTANCE IS -Area =12730m2
-4.4KM
-7 MIN WITH CAR
-56 MIN WITH WALK
LAND USE
-While we study our site, the site is broadly classified as residential, commercial, mixed use.
-The analysis helps us to know the current pattern of development and serves as the frame-
work for formulating how land will used in the future.
-Our site is dominated by commercial so it is a great direction for our proposal to work on
something which is important for the commercial community.

existing land use

the surrounding of the site is growing bit by bit and that kind of growth can help our site more wanted to
visit and our project can provide lot of advantage to the surrounding area to grow fast

SITE

COMMERTIAL

MIXED USE SERVICE

RELIGION AREA

RESIDENCIAL
 A

TOPOGRAPHY
-When we analyze the topography of site it helps us to study the natural slope of the
ground and future of the site.
B -It also allows as to see the shape, physical detail, ground form, boundary and existing
natural features of the site.
-The site has a very little range of slope which ranges from 4055m – 4077m.
-The site is gentle slope so it doesn’t cause extra cost for excavation to prepare area for
the proposed area to be done on the area.
-But sometimes it is difficult to make the best drainage due to its slope.

B
 ROAD MAP
-The main road has hierarchy due to its location and purpose which is connected to sikella
to secha and the rest 4 roads has less hierarchy such as local roads because they have
less traffic and it leads to the residential and to the commercial.
-There are many transportational terminal in our site. It increases the accessibility of the
site from many directions.
-The site has strong connection to st. gebre’al church, gimash square, kalehiwot church
and also nechisar hospital due to taxi and other means of transportation.
There is high traffic;
• 1:00AM – 3:30AM
• 10:00 – 1:30pm
Adjacent to the main road around gimash there is a green space, it creates a beauty and
increase the quality of the road.
Materials of road: - asphalt, cobblestone, pista
Condition: - the site has enough circulation road and it has an access for alltypes of vehi-
cles and pedestrians.
Main road Problems: - the site has almost all types of road but from what we analyse
-The road is poorly maintained
-The road is no enough signage
Secondary road
-There is hilly and fold roads and places.
 MICROCLIMATE
SUN AND WIND PATH Sun path
-Sun path in arbaminch city is slightly changeable accordance to its season.
-The first four months which are September, October, November and December the
direction of the sun path is from north east to south west direction (NE-SW).
-And the next months which are between December and march (December, January,
February and march) in this the sun path will be normal it goes east to north.
Wind
-Local is the strongest wind comes from abaya lake which have the strong potential
for cooling the town.
- The privaling wind cames from the gourge side.
Sound
-Mostly disturbing sounds are produced from vehicles and market place which is
close to our site.

BUILDING ORIENTATIONS SUGGESTIONS

SOUND

-the first noise came from the main road which have
a traffic two times a day
-the second one is the sound of the church whitch
makes the hotel more interesting and more