ARCHITECTURAL | Design & Site Planning | 14 Questions (MODERATE-CHALLENGING)

PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION SUPPLY & HARDWARE STORE

(14 Questions, Difficulty Level: MODERATE to CHALLENGING)

by Raison John J. Bassig

Hired by a well-renowned corporation, who owns a one and fifty-four hundredths-hectare (1.54-ha) property located along a newly-developed highway in a certain city in the Philippines, you are to design their new store that will supply hardware and building materials, except concrete products.

Access to the rectangular lot, with a depth of one hundred and forty meters (140m), is via two (2) parallel Road Rights-of-Way (RROWs): a twenty-six-meter (26-m) national highway at northeast; and, a twelve-meter (12-m) minor road at southwest. The city zoning ordinance requires an angular plane of

ARCHITECTURAL | Design & Site Planning | 20 Questions (MODERATE-CHALLENGING)

PROPOSED REVIEW CENTER & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING FACILITY

(20 Questions, Difficulty Level: MODERATE to CHALLENGING)

by Raison John J. Bassig

As an architect, you were commissioned to design a Review Center and Professional Development Training Facility on a two thousand and seventy-square meter (2,070-sqm) regular lot situated along a newly-developed thirty-two-meter (32-m)-wide Road Right-of-Way (RROW) in a certain municipality in the Philippines. The lot frontage is forty meters (40m) and faces west, while the entire site and RROW, slopes down at seven percent (7%) towards north.

Per the municipality's Zoning Ordinance (ZO), the project is located on a block, zoned as