Introduction to

SITE PLANNING
Definition
History
Site Planning process

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What is SITE PLANNING
 Buildings
 Roads
 Walkway
 Trees, garden,
pool (landscape)
 Water
 Plaza
 Pier
 environment
 Etc.

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Definition
 Site planning is the art and science of arranging the
structures on the land and shaping the spaces
between, an arts of arranging USES of land linked
to architecture, engineering, landscape architecture,
and city planning. Site plans locate objects and
activities in SPACE and TIME. These plans may
concern a small cluster of houses, a single building
and its grounds, or something as extensive as a
small community built in a single operation.
 Kevin Lynch, Gary Hack; Site Planning, MIT
press, Cambridge 1996

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 No matter sites are large or small,
they must be viewed as part of the
total environment.
Scope of work
 Site Planners designate the uses
of land in detail by selecting and
analyzing sites, forming land
use plans, organizing vehicular
and pedestrian circulation,
designing visual form and
materials concepts, readjusting
the existing landforms by design
grading, providing proper
drainage, and finally developing
the construction details
necessary to carry out their
projects.

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 Related profession
 Site planning is professionally
exercised directly by landscape
architects, but there are related
profession involved which are
architects, urban and regional Urban
planners, engineers. Planning
 On larger commissions the
landscape architect often serve
as a member of a closely
coordinated professional team, Landscape
which includes architects, Architec Site architecture
engineers, planners, and ture planning
scientist-advisors.

Civil
engineering

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Environment and quality of life
 Site planning is the organization of the external physical
environment to accommodate human behavior. It deals with the
qualities and locations of structures, land, activities and living
things. It creates a pattern of those elements in space and time,
which will be subject to continuous future management and
change.
 Spirit of place
 Character of the place
 Nature of the project
 Behavioral studies

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Brief History
 Four basic models of site
planning in history
1.Fixing the place
2.Defining the enclosure
3.Sense of order Fixing the space Defining the enclosure

4.Form of axial

Sense of order The form of axial

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Brief History
 The image and form of the
object building are capable of
fixing a place

Fixing the space

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Brief History Defining the enclosure

 A collection of independent structures,

which although unattached, create a
coherent image of place

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  The form of a building can be
such that a place may be fixed

Brief History
by the enclosure of the facades

Sense of order

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 Brief History
 Although the kinetic
implications of the word
“path” are somewhat
contradictory, paths are
nonetheless capable of
forming coherent,
meaningful images.

The form of axial

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Layers of Site Planning
Mass and
space

 Mass and space Zoning

 Zoning
 circulation Circulation

 Service &
maintenance Service &
maintenance

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 The model of Site planning Objectives

process
Natural factors
Need Cultural factors
Quantity Program Site analysis Site
User & client Aesthetic factors
Time analysis information
data
Behavior

Synthesis
Site potential
 In site planning, as in
other forms of problem
Cost estimate Schematic Schematic Schematic
solving, the critical Site plan 1 Site plan 2 Site plan 3

thinking process of
research, analysis,
and synthesis makes a
major contribution to Situation Evaluation Criteria

the formation of design

decisions process.
Selected
Site plan

Development process

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 Flow chart of
development process
Development
process

Project Project Project Project Project

 Defining the phasing 1 phasing 2 phasing 3 phasing 4 phasing…

problem
Design development &
 Site&program detail costing

analysis Contract
document
 Schemetic design
Bidding &
w/ prelim cost contracting
estimate Construction
 Design
development Project
inspection
 Development Occupation &
process management

Post Occupancy
evaluation
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