SITE PLANNING

NATURAL FACTORS AFFECTING  SITE PLANNING Geology Topography Hydrography Hydrology Soil Vegetation Wildlife Climatic factors GEOLOGY Geology is the natural science that studies the earth – its compositions, the process that shaped its surface and its history.  Earth is made up of rocks (including soil, sand, silt and dust ),  rocks are composed of minerals, minerals are made up of atoms. IMPORTANCE OF GEOLOGY It is an essential part of construction and hazard analysis. It help in Construction of dam, tunnel, reservoir . Material are more stable, durable and economical. Landslides , earthquake, and tsunami also be located. TYPES OF ROCKS  (GEOLOGY) Igneous Rocks – rocks produced by crystallization of molten magma. Sedimentary Rocks – when igneous rocks are exposed to surface and weathering reduces them to particles, these particles are moved by erosional process and deposited in layers into rivers and oceans. Metamo...

                        INTRODUCTION SITE PLAN A site plan usually shows  a building footprint, travel ways , parking, drainage facilities, sanitary sewer lines, water lines, trails, lighting, and landscaping and garden elements . Such a plan of a site is a " graphic representation of the arrangement of buildings, parking, drives, landscaping and any other structure that is part of a development project. A site plan is a "set of construction drawings that a builder or contractor uses to make improvements to a property.  Site plans are often prepared by a design consultant who must be either a licensed engineer, architect, landscape architect or land surveyor. SITE PLANNING Site planning  in architecture and planning refers to the organizational stage of the  design process. It involves the organization of land use zoning, access, circulation, landscape, privacy, security, ...