1. Site Analysis and Context
Design Foundation Professor Tango

2. bibliography
Site Analysis / Edward T. White (recommended class text)

3. definition context, contextual:
the whole situation, background or environment relevant to some event or product. In our case, the product is the building.
derivation of the word is to weave together

5. consequence triangle context owners workers floors customers ceilings
visitors
renters
maintenance
walls
floors
ceilings
structure
mechanical
lighting
context

7. elements of context / site analysis

8. elements of context / site analysis
location
contours
zoning
noise
traffic
utilities
drainage
neighborhood
pedestrians
demographics
property shape
property size
setbacks
easements
climate
views
vegetation
man-made features

9. hard data usually relates to physical site data which involves no judgments
site location
dimensions
contours
on site features
climate
zoning
vegetation

10. soft data sensory and human aspects of the site that usually involve value judgments
views from the site
views to the site
best approaches to the site
existence of odors
existence of noise
existence of human activity
type of neighborhood
demographics

12. elements of context / site analysis
Media: Thinking Paper
Format: Hand drawings / no instruments
Equal size / scale base drawings of site
Color: Appropriate color to hierarchal element.
General color uniformity across drawing set.
Lettering: Uniformity and hierarchy in lettering

24. Climate

25. Climate

26. Climate

27. Climate

28. Wind

29. Wind

30. Wind

32. Special Regional Conditions
Marilee Thomas of Beaver City, NE took this photograph of her daughter Audra about two miles from a Furnas County tornado in April 1989.
This photograph is from a special edition of NEBRASKAland Magazine, entitled "WEATHER AND CLIMATE OF NEBRASKA" published in January with content prepared by the UNL Geoscience Climatology faculty and graduate students.

33. Sun

36. Sun Altitude and Azimuth
Website:

44. Solar Resource for Flat Plate Solar Collectors
Watt hours per sq. meter
per day

46. 3d model of site analysis

47. 3d model of site analysis + building

48. Library Site

50. Site

58. Base Model

68. SITE