Landscapes:
Trees: Used for screen wind, increase ventilation
Vegetation: Capture moisture, reduce fog, increase sunlight reaching ground
Plats: Aesthetic value, screen or disguise as required, trees absorb sound
Planted area: Cooler during hot days, less heat loss during night
Deciduous tree: Looses leaves in winter
Coniferous tree: Has leaves throughout the year
Handicap
Handicap design: Path less that 1: 20; ramp< 1:12; <30 ft. max. Handicap pathway surface: Asphalt surface is the best: smooth, no transition Bad: Tanbark, brick, flag stone are rough on wheel chair Handicap slope maximum: Ramp 1:12 and flatter the better ramp anything steeper than 1:20 is a ramp. Ramps other than those are used by non-handicap is limited 1:8 City planning City planning: Mixture of central business district & presidential -A viable community asset “Not “prohibited due to land cost; all substandard units converted to commercial; future units to be low income & elderly • Best orientation towards sea view: The maximum number of units facing the ocean Site preparation -Clear all object -Demolish her plan -All utilities to be dealt with -Undisturbed plants to be protected -Batter boards offset from building or excavations -Top 6 inches of soil Removed Catchment area: Market area or trade area, tributary area from which a facility derives its user population; depending on type & size of shopping center, the catchment area fluctuates with size on basis of traveling & convenience in reaching facility type & size of shopping center is primacy determined by its catchment basis To reduce cost: Compact low cost housing development main cost: Grading, road construction, utility Configuration of conventional suburban shopping mall Axial: Anchor tenants very similar to linear but anchors create main axis for design Precinctual organizational pattern: Graduak accumulation of self-contained building complexes. Each serving distinct activity & interrelated with neighbors. It allows growth in any direction. Flexible/compact Street Site issues- Bearing capacity, sub- surface, water shrinkage, seismic, stable earth
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