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

ARCHITECTURAL | Design & Site Planning | 10 Questions (CHALLENGING)

TRICKY AND UNCOMMON DESIGN PROBLEMS

(10 Questions, Difficulty Level: CHALLENGING)

by Raison John J. Bassig

Q#1: You designed a supermarket having a total of five (5) aisles. The center aisle measures 3.20m in width, while the rest of the aisles measure 1.15m in width each. If you laid out a cross aisle where the said aisles will terminate, what is the smallest size of that cross aisle you can specify?

ARCHITECTURAL | Design & Site Planning | 8 Questions (MODERATE)

A 2-STOREY STRUCTURE SITUATED ON AN R-1 THROUGH LOT

(8 Questions, Difficulty Level: MODERATE)

by Raison John J. Bassig

Given the illustrated 2-storey structure situated on an R-1 through lot.

Lot Size: 10m wide x 21m deep
Main RROW Width: 20m
Secondary RROW Width: 12m
Sidewalk Elevation Mark: EL = 0.00m
G/F Line Elevation Mark: EL + 850mm
2/F Line Elevation Mark: EL + 5000mm
Top of Roof Beam Elevation Mark: EL + 8620mm
Roof Apex Elevation Mark: EL + 10530mm
Line of Eaves: 310mm below Top of Roof Beam

ARCHITECTURAL | Design & Site Planning | 8 Questions (MODERATE-CHALLENGING)

A 15-STOREY MINIMALIST OFFICE BUILDING W/ ROOF DECK

(8 Questions, Difficulty Level: MODERATE to CHALLENGING)

by Raison John J. Bassig

PROJECT BRIEF:
A potential client has acquired a 54m x 86m corner lot, on even ground, in a zone classified as C-3. The shorter side faces a 10m-wide RROW, while the longer side faces an 8m-wide RROW. You were then officially hired to be the architect of this client to design his Proposed 15-Storey Office Building w/ Roof Deck.

His only three (3) requirements are:

1. The floor-to-floor heights should all be at 3.30 meters;
2. The parapet wall at the roof deck should be 1.30 meters high; and
3. The building envelope should be minimalist, purely of curtain glass wall, straight from the ground up, with no projections or incremental setbacks whatsoever.

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

A BUILDING WITH VARIOUS GENERAL RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS

14 Questions - Difficulty Level: EASY to MODERATE)
by Raison John J. Bassig

PROJECT BRIEF:
You were commissioned by a client, who owns a 1.26-Ha. property located along a national highway in San Fernando, Pampanga, to design a building that will house various general retail establishments in the community. His lot is regularly-shaped with a 96.00-m frontage facing south along the highway, a 27.50-m RROW. All other lots adjacent to his property is still undeveloped. The whole vicinity, including his entire lot, has a constant downward slope of 5.00% from east to west.