DESIGN IV SITE ANALYSIS- CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL

DESIGN IV : SITE ANALYSIS

DESIGN IV SITE ANALYSIS

CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL

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DESIGN IV : SITE ANALYSIS

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background site topography site analysis surrounding views vegetation environmental swot analysis

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BACKGROUND SITE

PENDING

Jalan Datuk Marican Salleh is situated 5km east of Kuching Waterfront and located in Pending, which known as industrial estate area. It had an enormous history of contributing development if Kuching.

Kampung Sungai Apong and Bintawa which area neighbourhood of Pending.

Pending is one of the busiest city which leads to the heart of Kuching city. With new future developments being made in Pending, the area is slowly became a part of urbanscape of Kuching.

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TOPOGRAPHY sectional topography

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SITE ANALYSIS

Sarawak has an equatorial climate. The temperature is relatively uniform throughout the year within the range of 23c early in the morning to 32c during the day

The rainfall followed the wind direction which mostly from southwest due to the wind during southwest monsoon season while in northeast monsoon the rainfall direction is from northeast

Sarawakian experiences majority of its wind is from south or southwest. The average wind speed is 5 to 10 km/h

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SURROUNDING VIEWS

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VEGETATION

Vegetation section

Maximum height of plants are garcinia cynosa which is 15m tall. In conclusion, the purpose of plants within the vicinity are use as barrier, sound buffer and way finding.

There are plenty of greenery but it need a better landscaping strategy to enhance the site. It’s because some of the plants are randomly placed and poorly taken care of.

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street organization

ENVIRONMENTAL

The site land forms is uneven and some areas are hills and some are low creating an organic street system

Due to the landforms flatter surface and suitability for a grid street design, this area uses a grid street pattern soil type

water body

The site contain mostly saline gley soils {gleysols). It is poorly drained clays on recent alluvium, mainly confined to deltaic area subject to brackish water flooding, The Nearest water body from the sitw is about 700 m from the site with an approximately 3 minutes drive. The river is located at northeast and west.

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ENVIRONMENTAL

sound

air

residential zone

pending industrial estate

industrial zone

commercial zone

muara tabuan light industrial park

odour

Surrounded by commercial area, the areas uses a alot of heavy machinery, strong smell of paints, oil and lubricants can be detected.

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SWOT ANALYSIS

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-Urban industrial context encourages multi-generational living with different background -The site views capturing few landmark in Kuching.

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-Lack of entertainment, recreational and community based activity -High traffic every peak hour -Noises coming from factories, retails and commercial shoplot

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-To create more community oriented activites -Proposed ART Station enables the transit oriented development

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-It is a potential flood area which the site is near to Sungai Apong and Sarawak river

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