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Location, Location, Location

Selecting a building site close to amenities like work, schools and shops minimizes travel times and allows for healthier transportation options like walking and biking. An established neighborhood located near town is a good choice as infrastructure is already in place. Avoiding environmentally sensitive areas helps protect natural features. "Site repair" is an approach where an abused site is selected and restored, leaving beautiful areas undisturbed. It is important to consider a site's vulnerabilities to natural hazards like typhoons or earthquakes, and its climate, drainage and orientation to manipulate factors like sunlight and wind.

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Location, Location, Location

Selecting a building site close to amenities like work, schools and shops minimizes travel times and allows for healthier transportation options like walking and biking. An established neighborhood located near town is a good choice as infrastructure is already in place. Avoiding environmentally sensitive areas helps protect natural features. "Site repair" is an approach where an abused site is selected and restored, leaving beautiful areas undisturbed. It is important to consider a site's vulnerabilities to natural hazards like typhoons or earthquakes, and its climate, drainage and orientation to manipulate factors like sunlight and wind.

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Location, Location, Location

Selecting a building site close to work, schools, shopping, etc. will minimize travel distances and time.
Short distances, sidewalks, bike paths and bus stops will allow for healthier modes of transportation and
the avoidance of excessive costly, polluting automobile trips. A lot in an established neighborhood located
close to town is a particularly good choice for many people. This land has already been dedicated to
residential development, so more natural land does not have to be destroyed and the costly roads and
utilities are already in place.

Avoiding environmentally sensitive areas helps protect some of the features that makes many areas so
special – our creeks, lakes, aquifer, tree-covered hills, wildlife, native wildflowers & plants. Flat to
moderately sloped sites are preferable to steeply sloped lots, as soil erosion, loss of hillside vegetation
and damage to waterways are more difficult to avoid when building on steep slopes.

“Site Repair” is a special approach to selection of a building site that can have economic and aesthetic
benefits for the prospective homeowner while restoring the local environment rather than burdening it.
This involves choosing a site that has been abused (stripped of vegetation, eroded, invaded by exotic
(non-native) vegetation, etc.) for the location of the home. Placement of the new home on the “scarred”
area often leaves the more beautiful areas to be looked out upon and enjoyed.

vulnerabilities to natural hazard criteria

It has been said that prevention is better than cure but then again natural hazards, as it's name implies,
is natural and that means it's inevitable but in architecture instead of preventing we can strategize
features of the site that can be prepared for natural hazards such as typhoons, earthquakes and the like.
if it's near oceans, water reservoirs or if it lies along the major fault lines are important things to consider
as well So we may know if the site if free of any potential damage/injury from natural hazrds. Under this
would also be climate, drainage, structural strength and personal water system.

orientation criteria

itsimprtant to know the orientation of the site not only for the sake of the building but for all the exisiting
and would be features of the lot as well because with good orientation we can manipulate the sun path,
wind patterns and carefully controlled vegetation for it to be advantageous to the site.

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