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Site and Environmental Planning Quiz

Test your knowledge on site planning, environmental science, and geology with this comprehensive quiz! Designed for enthusiasts and professionals alike, this quiz will challenge your understanding of the principles that shape the land around us.

Assess your grasp of critical concepts in site design
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Engage with questions covering geology, hydrology, and sustainability

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The art of arranging structures on the land and shaping the spaces between, an art 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 exclusive as a small community but in a single operation.

Site Planning

Landscape

Landscape Architecture

�the art of arranging structures on the land and shaping the spaces between; an art linked to architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, and city planning.

Landscape

Site Planning

Landscape Architecture

This process selects from a list of potential sites one that suits best the given use and requirements of the project.

SITE SELECTION PROCESS

DEVELOPMENT SUITABILITY PROCESS

Landscape

branch of Geology that deals with the origin, nature, and distribution of landforms.

GEORMORPHOLOGY

GEOLOGY

Physiography

The term used to describe the composite sizes of particles in a soil sample

GEOMORPHOLOGY TEXTURE

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GEOLOGY

Means that gravity water is not readily transmitted by the soil and soil is frequently or permanently saturated and may have water standing on it caused by

Good drainage

Poor drainage

Drainage

� the rate at which water penetrates the soil surface (usually measured in cm or inches per hour

Infiltration

Permeability

Understanding slope forms for site design requires an understanding of local geologic, soil, hydrologic, and vegetative conditions.

SLOPE ANALYSIS

SLOPE FORM

Expressed graphically in terms of a slope profile, a silhouette of a slope drawn to known proportions with distance on the horizontal axis and elevation on the vertical axis

SLOPE FORM

SLOPE ANALYSIS

Angle of repose

The angle at which soil can be safely inclined and beyond which it will fail.

Angle of repose

SLOPE ANALYSIS

SLOPE FORM

A map of a portion of the earth that describes the shape of the earth’s surface by contour lines.

TOPOGRAPHIC MAP

CONTOURS

SLOPE

imaginary lines that join points of equal elevation on the surface of the land above or below a reference surface such as the mean sea level.

CONTOURS

TOPOGRAPHIC MAP

SLOPE

When slopes are selected according to building type and the activities associated with it.

DESIRABLE SLOPES

SLOPE

SLOPE MAP

When rocks are broken down (weathered) into small fragments and carried by the wind, water, ice, and gravity. Energy for this process is solar and gravitational

SOIL EROSION

SLOPE

TOPOGRAPHIC MAP

The planet’s water cycle, is described by the movement of water from the oceans to the atmosphere to the continents and back to the sea.

Hydrologic cycle

SLOPE

SOIL

A permeable geological stratum or formation that can both store and transmits groundwater in significant quantities

AQUIFIER

WATERSHED

Water table

A geographic area of land bounded by topographic features and height of land that captures precipitation, filters, and stores water and drains waters to a shared destination. Knowledge of watershed boundaries is critical to water quality and stormwater management.

Water table

WATERSHED

AQUIFIER

Plants reduce glare and reflection caused by sunlight. A light source received directly produces primary glare while reflected light is secondary glare. Plants may be used to filter or block glare by use of plants with the appropriate size, shape, and foliage density

Glare and Reflection

Erosion Control

Plants are a primary means of preventing erosion from stormwater runoff and controlling erosion during construction. Erosion is also minimized by the plant's action of intercepting rain, decreasing splash, and increased water absorption.

Erosion Control

Glare and Reflection

The technology of cooling spaces through proper siting of structure and use of energy-efficient materials, with the overall objective of energy conservation.

PASSIVE COOLING

COOLING

He art of arranging structures on the land and shaping the spaces between, an art 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 exclusive as a small community but in a single operation

TRAFFIC AND TRANSIT SYSTEMS

DENSITY AND ZONING

SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS:

The study of the community and its social and economic structures are done to determine whether there is a need, an interest, or any objections to the project

SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS:

TRAFFIC AND TRANSIT SYSTEMS

DENSITY AND ZONING

Defined as the way an open space of a given site is configured according to an arrangement of elements that evoke activity or flow, both physically or SITE PLANNING REVIEW visually.

SPATIAL PATTERNS

NATURAL FEATURES

AESTHETIC FACTORS

When sites are characterized by outstanding natural features of earth, rock, water, or plant material, SITE PLANNING REVIEW these may be incorporated in the site development as natural assets of the land.

SPATIAL PATTERNS

AESTHETIC FACTORS

NATURAL FEATURES

� is a scene observed from a vantage point. A view can be a theme that may suggest and give added meaning to buildings. The full view is not always the best.

View

Vista

is a confined view, usually directed toward a terminal or dominant feature. It has three components: a viewing station, a view, and a foreground. A view is usually better if enframed or seen through an appropriate screen

View

Vista

Interior space becomes cohesive therefore no elements to alienate buildings

ISOLATED BUILDING

BUILDING ENCLOSING SPACE AND SPACE ENCLOSING BUILDING

ENCLOSED SPACE

Corners are built-up making the design of buildings restricted since a similar shape must be adopted to hold the design together

BUILT-UP CORNERS:

MONUMENT/ STATUE/ FOUNTAIN:

TERMINAL POINTS

Introducing a monument/ statue/ fountain creates a visual identity for the space

MONUMENT/ STATUE/ FOUNTAIN:

TERMINAL POINTS

Use of terminal points is essential in siting a building such as the Piazza San Marco in Venice

TERMINAL POINTS

BUILT-UP CORNERS:

UNDER/ OVER PASS

A checklist of information or data pertaining to a site. The kind of data that would be required in some rather normal example of site planning. Such a list would be drawn up after an initial analysis of the problem. To guide the first survey, information would be gathered continuously as the problem develops.

Survey

Checklist

Form

Building design should integrate very nicely with the natural environment and make the best use of the existing site conditions.

Site Planning

Building Orientation

The Building Form

Developed with respect to the topographical contours where to minimize the area of cutting solid and in return filling back of soil to the site and to minimize the disturbance of the construction to the existing trees and landscape where digging up of soil and cutting off of tress were minimized.

The Building Form

Site Planning

Building Orientation

Elements placed in a landscape or streetscape for comfort, convenience, information, circulation control, protection, and user enjoyment, I.e. bollards, benches, signage, lighting, tree grates, utility boxes, etc.

Building Orientation

The Building Form

SITE FURNITURE

a major objective in the design and placement of site furniture elements. It should respond to the character of a site as well as to its existing and proposed function.

Appropriateness

Design Objectives

Response to setting

Design should respond to the essential identity or inherent character or a place.

Response to setting

Appropriateness

Design Objectives

If the central purpose of planning is to create for any person or group of persons an environment suited to their needs, then climate must a first consideration.

CLIMATE DESIGN

Design Objectives

Appropriateness

Suitable for various types of topography, each with its own practicality, functionality, and charm. The problem is choosing the type of street pattern for a particular site. One that would give utmost performance.

Street Patterns

CLIMATE DESIGN

Design Objectives

Linear or Street Ribbon. A straight road used to connect one community to another. Crossings are few and far between.

GEOMETRIC

GRIDIRON

RADIAL

Site is divided into square or rectangular blocks. Advantages: blocks and services are easy to layout. Disadvantages: causes traffic congestion due to the frequent crossings created.

RADIAL

GRIDIRON

MEANDERING

Use of circumferential and radial roads to connect the center of the city to the outskirts a ripple manner.

COMBINATION

RADIAL

MEANDERING

Using both the geometric and meandering street patterns. Geometric street pattern is used where the terrain is flat and meandering where the terrain is rolling.

COMBINATION

MODIFIED GRIDS

CUL-DE-SAC

The advantage of a grid system is its ability to lay out streets in an easy and direct manner as well as the easy installation of services following the grids of the streets. One disadvantage of the grid is its relative monotony. To avoid monotonous street layout a modified grid could be used.

MODIFIED GRIDS

CUL-DE-SAC

LOOPS

The grouping of houses presents a far less difficult problem that that of the straight street. A cul-de-sac is shaped so that the fronting houses automatically create an enclosed space.

CUL-DE-SAC

LOOPS

MODIFIED GRIDS

(major arterials: highways, bi-ways, expressways, super highways, freeways, motorways, autobahns, etc.)

Major roads

Secondary roads

Collector streets

Good opportunities exist for varied and interesting house groups on lots flanking looped streets. One disadvantage of loops is the eventual narrowness of certain lot frontages especially along the curvature of the loop.

LOOPS

MODIFIED GRIDS

CUL DE SAC

Involves the remodeling of existing land form to facilitate the functions and circulation of the site.

SITE GRADING

SITE SELECTION

SITE CHECKLIST

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