The document discusses the basics of site analysis for architectural design projects. It provides guidance on researching a site before visiting, collecting information while on site using a checklist, and presenting the collected site data. Examples of site information to document include orientation, access, vegetation, topography, views, and environmental factors like sunlight, wind, noise levels. The document also demonstrates how to draw site plans, sections, and analyze environmental factors of a site.

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Arts and Design II-FFD102
Spring Semester 2019
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Light in Architecture
Site Analysis Basics & Studying your Site
How to draw Site Plan and Sections?
Environmental Factors
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2. Before going to the site:
• Research First
• Go to the Site Please if you can!
• Camera, Notebook, MeasureTape, Good
Weather
At the site: Use a Checklist please:
Examples in here:
• Orientation
• Site Location
• Existing Everthing!!!  note them down!
• Access to your site? How?
• Accesibility?
• Talk with people at your site
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3. At the site: Use a Checklist please:
Examples in here:
• Circulation
• Vegetation
• Views, Future ideas?
• Surrounding Building Context?
• Any Surfaces and Materials?
• Site Topagraphy, Levels?
• Nature and Weather
• Sun Path
• Sounds Noise Levels
• Pollution Hazards Electric
• Drainage Telephone Stations
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4. Presenting site information that you collected:
• Photos
• Sketches
• Important Elements
• Any Data about Climate
• Humidity
• Rainfall
• View
• Winds
• Keep it simple and understandable
• And KEEP IT REAL AND MAKE SURE
YOU CAN PROVE!
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Slope (eğim)
Access to Site
Trees
Pedestrian Paths
Existing Buildings
or Structures
Focal Point
Paths

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SUN AT YOUR SITE:
Where is it when?  OBSERVE
REPRESENT THE SUN 
AND DRAW PLEASE HOW IT MOVES 
EASY! 

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Site Analysis Basics & Studying your Site
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LOCATE YOUR NORTH ARROWS:
Where is North?
DRAW ACCESS TO YOUR SITE
DRAW WHERE ARE
YOUR VIEWS AT?
SHOW SURROUNDING
WATER-CANAL_
NATURAL QUALITIES
DRAW EXISTING STRUCTURES-
BUILDINGS OR COMPLEXES
DRAW WHERE ARE
YOUR SITE IS AT?

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How to draw Site Plan and Sections?
Evaluating your site information that you collected:
• Streets
• Scale
• Landuse
• Neighbourhood
• Movement
• Materials
• Access
• Public Space
• History of Site
• Natural vs Manmade
• Sun angles and Shades
• Sounds Noise Levels
• Pollution Hazards Electric Drainage Telephone Stations

11. image c
@ http://www.expandedenvironment.org/
zoo-de-vincennes-renovation/
image c @ Parco delle Sughere
(cork oak park) in Donoratico,
by Italian architecture firm
image c@ Point Pleasant Park,
Halifax. North Design Office
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How to draw Site Plan and Sections?

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How to draw Site Plan and Sections?
• Draw your site plan and perspective
• Make models of your site and building
• Add any information you collected first
and than eliminate the unneccesary ones

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How to draw Site Plan and Sections?

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How to draw Site Plan and Sections?

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How to draw Site Plan and Sections?

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How to draw Site Plan and Sections?
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How to draw Site Plan and Sections?
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How to draw Site Plan and Sections?
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How to draw Site Plan and Sections?
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How to draw Site Plan and Sections?
4 percent normal
intensive activity
10 percent normal
informal activity
More than 10 percent
Limited activity
Over 50 Eroison

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Environmental Factors
Natural Features
• Topography of the site, valleys, ridges, slopes etc.
• Vegetation – landscaping, greenery, shrubs and trees, open spaces.
• Site levels. How will this affect your design process? How does the site
drainage work, would there be any potential problems with drainage?
• Soil types on site image c@firstinarchitecture.co.uk
• Wind
• Natural Light
• Sound
• Humidity
• View
• Temperature during the day and
night

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Environmental Factors
Sensory
•Views – where are the best views to and from the site.
•What are the views of?
•Mark out the positive and negative views.
•Which is the most likely feature aspect?
•Look at views towards the site from different approaches
to see how the site would be seen when drawing near to
the site. What are the best views of the site, and would
these change in the long term?
•Noise, odour and pollution – is the site in a particularly
noisy area? Or near industrial buildings that produce levels
of pollution. Is it near a facility that creates smoke?

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Environmental Factors at your site
• Nem: Humidity
• Serin rüzgar: Cold breeze What are those winds?
• Hayvanlar ve Bitki Ağaç Örtüsü: Animals and Plants and Trees
• Dere su sesi: Sound of flowing water below
• Hayvan sesleri: Animal Sounds
• Dağ manzarası: View of the mountain
• Dere manzarası ve gökyüzü manzarası: View of the water and sky

30. References in order:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEK5A-O_E9g
• www.firstinarchitecture.co.uk
• image c @ http://www.expandedenvironment.org/zoo-de-vincennes-renovation/
• image c @ Parco delle Sughere (cork oak park) in Donoratico, by Italian architecture firm
• image c@ Point Pleasant Park, Halifax. North Design Office
• https://www.floornature.com/blog/regeneration-of-the-parco-delle-sughere-a-cork-oak-park-on-the-next-landmark-2014-
shortlist-9841/
• image c @ Duncan Heather
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