Design of a Five-Storey Hydroponic Vertical Farm at Barangay San Isidro, Antipolo, Rizal

Chapter 2
2.1 Design Criteria

2.1.1 Demography

2.1.2 Architectural Plans

Architectural Plans

Architectural Plans were develop by the National Housing Authority. They gave these plans to the designer
to determine what structural system would best fit their Medium Rise Housing projects. This model will be
used for all projects similar to this project.

Floor Plans

Floor plans are use in order to assign properly the location of all structural members of the project. Also the
plan will be one of a major consideration since it will determine what structural systems are feasible for the
project. The designer will used Fig. 2-1 to Fig. 2-7 developing structural plans
Figure 2-1: Security Block
Figure 2-3: Framing Block
Figure 2-3: First Floor Plan
Figure 2-4: Second Floor Plan
Figure 2-5: Third Floor Plan
Figure 2-6: Fourth Floor Plan
Figure 2-7: Fifth to Fifteenth Floor Plan
Elevation Plans

Elevation plans are useful in preliminary sizing of beams, determining floor to floor height, and computing of
storey drift. The designer will refer occasionally to Fig 2-8 for modelling, analysis and design structure.

Figure 2-8: Elevations

2.1.3 Live Loads

Live loads shall be the maximum loads expected by the intended use or occupancy but in no case shall be
less than the loads required by Section 205.1.
Based from Section 205.1, floors shall be for the unit live loads shall be taken as the minimum live loads of
the horizontal projection to be used in the design of the building.
Live Load Parameters

Use or Occupancy Uniform Load Concentrated Load

Category Description kPa kN

Office Use 2.4 9.02

 1. Access Floor
Computed Use 4.8 9.02
System
2. Armories ---- 7.2 0

3. Manufacturing Light 6.0 9.02

2.1.4 Dead Loads

Dead loads consist of the weight of all materials of construction incorporated into the building or other
structure, including but not limited to walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, stairways, built-in partitions, finishes,
cladding and other similarly incorporated architectural and structural items, and fixed service equipment,
including the weight of cranes.
Floors in office buildings and other buildings where partition locations are subjected to change shall be
designed to support, in addition to all other loads, a uniformly distributed dead load to 1.0 kPa.
2.1.5 Seismic Loads
Earthquake load parameters are determined using NSCP 2015-Section 208. The parameters are tabulated
below:

Description Symbol Value Remarks

Occupancy Category - Essential Facilities Category l
Seismic Importance
I 1.50 -
Factor
Soil Profile Type 𝑆𝐷 - Stiff Soil
Seismic Zone - Zone 4 Quezon City
Seismic Zone Factor Z 0.40 Zone 4
Seismic Source Type - TYPE A M=7.4(7.0≤M≤8.4)
Near-Source Factor 𝑁𝑎 1..0 ≥10 km
Near-Source Factor 𝑁𝑣 1.0 ≥10 km

Seismic Coefficient 𝐶𝑎 -
0.44𝑁𝑎
Seismic Coefficient 𝐶𝑣 0.64𝑁𝑣 -
Response Modification
R 2.9
Factor

2.2 Review of Related Literature

2.2.1 Local Literature

2.2.2 Foreign Literature