SBP 207E - Project III: Site Plan.&Design

Course Objectives

This 14-week studio is organized to enhance planning students' ability to examine
natural, built and socio-economic environments and reflect their site-related
knowledge to the urban structure they design from a holistic and sustainable
perspective. Minilectures and drawing exercises throughout three modules will
guide the students on data collection, analysis and synthesis, developing concept
alternatives, and generating a site plan and a neighborhood unit.

Course Description

Project III is designed to plan a site with a neighborhood unit while promoting
sustainability under the main studio theme, housing. Within this scope, the
contents of the studio are as follows:
• Analysis of natural environment, built environment, and socio-economic
structure in the context of site planning;
• Assessment of natural environment, built environment, and socio-economic
structure in the context of site planning;
• Decision-making techniques in site planning;
• Generating concept alternatives for a site plan;
• Developing a select concept alternative into a site plan;
• Generating a neighborhood design that corresponds to the site plan; and
• Written, oral, and graphic expression techniques