SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE-IX

SUSTAINABLE SITE PLANNING

LECTURE-7

PRESENTED BY: Ar. AASHNA ARORA

 ASPECTS OF SUSTAINABILITY

Site
selection

Site design,
development Site Storm water
and Selection management
management

Transportation
 SUSTAINABLE SITE- LARGE DEVELOPMENTS
• For small buildings and sites, such issues would not appear.
• Large site- Scope and possibility for incorporating these parameters.

1. Land Use Optimisation

• Higher development densities.

• In site selection, we selected a site in
dense neighborhood to control urban
sprawl.
• Intent here is same. But here, site should
be developed for higher densities.
• Control measure will be there for
densities- Follow local bye-laws.
Heights, densities, ground coverage-
restricted.
• Intent- Maximum development densities
as possible as governed by the local bye-
laws.
 2. Basic facilities for construction workers
• Big sites- Construction workers forced to
stay on the site.
• Adequate housing for workforce during
construction.
• Sanitary measures to meet or exceed the
local bye-laws reqmts. Toilets, bathrooms.
• Sewage treatment and disposal
arrangements.
• Medical and emergency facilities.
• Adequate clean drinking water facilities.
• PPE Kits(Helmets, boots, gloves etc.)
• Dust suppression measures(avoidance of
suspension particles)
• Adequate illumination levels in work areas.
• Creche and schools provisions.
 3. Promote mixed use development.
4. Mix of housing typologies- high, middle, ews etc.-ensures under-priviledged
are not marginalized.
5. Employment opportunities (Post-occupancy)

• Extending mixed use development where retail, office areas, and institutional areas come
up so that people find work in vicinity. Closer employment opportunities.
• Ensure diverse employment opportunities catering to all sections of the society.
6. Social and cultural initiatives.
• Environmental dimension is not just important, social,
cultural and economic initiatives equally important.
• Take care of Social and cultural initiaves- from
beginning of the project.
• Open areas- where people can gather and celebrate as
community.
• Provision of amenities like dispensaries, banks etc.
• Vocational training institutes for men and women.
• Conserve and restore buildings of historical
importance.
• Adequate public drinking facilities.
• Local craft and cottage industry
• Any other social initiative which will have positive
impact on local community.
 7. Long term transportation plan
• How this development of site will impact transportation and how people will be
commuting. Intent- travelling less distance. Entry exit for bus terminal, no
traffic jams on main road which are surrounding the site.
 8. Design for differently-abled
• Safe, comfortable and easy access.
• Uniformity in flooring level/ ramps
• Preferred car parking spaces
• Restrooms designed for differently abled
• Braille support lifts.
• Do not ignore them in large developments.
Eg. Accessible footpaths.

9. Public Transportation facilities

 Non-Motorized Transportation
• Bicycles, and how people walk.
• Consider all parameters within nonmotorized transportation -safety, security, way-finding,
protection from encroachment, walkability, interconnected network, universal design.
• If any of these missing, people shift to motorized transportation.
• For making non-motorized popular- all these points have to be adequately addressed.
10. Road and street network
11. Bicycle Friendliness
• Provide cycle
parking facilities
near crowded
locations and
high cycling
volume corridors
(bus stops, metro
stations).
• Provide
dedicated space
for cycle rikshaw
parking.
• Helps in last mile
connectivity or
public transit
integration.
• Cycle rikshaw
parking bays of
1.5m width
should be
provided near the
junctions.
• Create
opportunities for
carrying bicycles
on public
transportation.
 12. Pedestrian Network
• Very important within non-motorized
category.
• Provision of adequate footpaths with
signages, seating, drop curve ( Universal
design for differently abled, barriers which
will restrict, zebra crossing, pedestrian
signals.)
• Provide shaded footpaths and pathways.
• Provide adequate street lighting to achieve
appropriate lux levels.
 13. Light Pollution Reduction

• As cities are growing and becoming dense. We see nature, greenery, vegetation along with birds
and animals are disappearing from our cities. There are many cities in the world which do
not have birds not just because of absence of enough trees, flora and fauna but also because of
light pollution. Birds cannot survive. Alarming situation. Grave change in ecosystem as one
species suddenly disappears leads to growth of unwanted species in the environment. So, we
need to curb/remove/reduce light pollution at urban as well as at site level.
Strategies
• To minimize light trespass from the building and site,
• Reduce sky-glow to increase night sky access,
• Improve night time visibility through glare reduction and
• Reduce development impact from lighting on nocturnal environments (active in the night).
• Do not curb off all the lights- Do not make the environment unsafe. Provision of light in such
a manner that it does not light up the sky.

Exposed luminaire Best when light is only available on the ground

 Light Pollution Reduction

• How lighting fixture is installed inside and outside.

• Left side- lights on eaves-inclined- creates glare for other building, exterior- disturbs other
building as well.
Light Pollution Reduction

(Green building rating

system)

• Check Lighting
Power Densities
values from
ECBC (India),
ASHRAE/ANSI
/IESNA for
Abroad.
• No extra LPD to
be provided.
 Light Pollution Reduction

• LPD for different sites are given.

• LPD for fixtures.

• LPD (ASHRAE)>LPD (Actual from the

site)- Compliant
 14. Tree Plantation
• Plantation in streets and in open spaces- carefully as it provides for shades and directs
the wind- It improves ventilation. In cold areas, winds are not require, so trees can block
wind. .
15. Local food production 16. Green education and guidelines
• To educate users about
implementing sustainable design and
construction features in the spaces of
their scope.
• Signages and information boards on
green education.
• Helps in maintaining the green
features of the project for the life of
the project.

• Encourage local food production and

minimize environmental damage from long
distance transportation of food.
• Local food production at Manyata Tech
Park, Bengaluru
Summary