ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT TOPIC HIGHLIGHTS Structure of the Document Purpose Revision and Companion Volume
6
PHILIPPINE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STANDARDS ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
CONTENTS I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX.
Introduction Structure of this Document Purpose Limitations of this Document Stakeholders Interpretation Applicability Revisions and Companion Volumes Related Legacy Documents
7
I. Introduction
Development policies on our built environment in the Philippines aspire to deliver a quality of life in which the enjoyment of safe, nurturing, and resilient spaces is conveniently accessible to the public.
8
The need for this basic right to quality continues to expand, with more of our natural systems being modified and folded into the inventory of the built environment. With this, development controls such as the National Building Code (i.e., NBC, enacted as RA 6541) prescribe a unified dictum for many aspects of our built environment.
Code; as well as provides technical guidance and instruction for the Landscape Architecture profession and landscape construction industry.
Understandably, the scope and content of the NBC has traditionally been and continues to be primarily on architecture and engineering (i.e., A+E), mainly covering the spaces within building envelopes, their immediate vicinity, and associated engineering infrastructure support systems. Yet, the larger context of outdoor footprint where buildings are sited that fall within the ambit of landscape architecture remains unaddressed. Given that the quality of spaces beyond building envelopes add both tangible and intangible value to projects by way of desirability and resilience, income, and engendering a sense of pride-of-place, establishing a set of Philippine Landscape Architecture Design Standards reinforces areas of development control not included in the current National Building
II. Structure of Document The Philippine Landscape Architecture Design Standards (PLADS) is organized into six chapters, all mutually reinforcing and defining the country’s core concerns of Landscape Architecture practice, as the accompanying chart illustrates. Each chapter provides useful governing standards as guidance for development and installed work.
6
Figure 1 Various landscape project types
CHAPTERS
1
PRACTICE
2
DESIGN
3
PROCESS
4
MATERIALS
5
PLANTING
6
DETAILS
Figure 2 Structure of Document
PHILIPPINE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STANDARDS ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
III. Purpose The PLADS offers a whole-of-site approach to prescribing a minimum acceptable level of development with how projects should be delivered on the ground to achieve a more balanced development and better-scoped quality of the built environment.
As a national resource for policy-making and decision-making, the PLADS fills the gap in the country’s current development control toolkit of the built environment.
Furthermore, as a helpful resource, it offers definitive guidance to all development stakeholders within the context of practice in the Philippines. The content embodied in the PLADS ensures a minimum acceptable quality of development or installed work that meets the need for a safe, resilient, and comfortable built environment accessible to the public. It ensures that the quality of both design and installed work meet their intended uses in the landscape, guaranteeing that these shall be adequate in their dimension, size, and capacity; appropriate in their materials and construction; and durable as demonstrated by their resilience.
a
Duplicate the wealth of technical design information already openly available in published landscape architecture and site planning design standards and manuals;
b
Interfere with nor supplant the proprietary standards of practices whose design deliverables already embody or exceed the content and quality of these minimum standards;
c
Claim to be the “Default Manual of Practice,” as various practices are encouraged to formulate and innovate their Manuals of Practice aligned to their business processes;
d
Recommend on project-specific designs, as the prescriptive recommendations of the PLADS are not meant to be interpreted as project-specific solutions, and recognize that all projects must incorporate specific innovative variants and permutations of designs;
e
Restrict the design and construction of landscape items, systems, and assemblies that exceed the minimum prescription of these standards for project-specific needs, recognizing that more stringent requirements are deemed generally desirable and respected as part of practice prerogatives and project covenants.
IV. Limitations of this Document It should be noted that the PLADS is not meant to be an exhaustive all-inclusive resource for the full range and permutations of design solutions possible. Rather, it prescribes the minimum acceptable basic requirements for key areas of landscape design and construction. Specifically, this document does not attempt to:
Figure 3 Design of landscape spaces entail technical solutions embodied in PLAD’s minimum standard details
9
F
F
A
0.
11
R0.21
K
11
F
F
F
C
FFL
D
F
R0
.2
FFL
0.2
0.2
5
0.2
A
300mm X 300mm X 50mm THK. NATURAL GRANITE STONE, DRAIN COVER FINISH: FLAMED COLOR: GRAY
C
BOW
•
32
2
LA-00
1
• •
LA-00
SCALE
1:20 MTS.
0.12
23
•
23
32 3
1
• •
A
3
LA-00
10
LADDER-STEP SCALE
1:10 MTS.
VIII. Related Legacy Documents
13
4
F
3 4"
DESERT BLEND
600mm X 600mm X 10mm THK. NON-SKID HOMOGENEOUS TILES COLOR: PIETRA ROCK CREAM, CREAM 2 OF 5
K
4
10
OVERFLOW CHANNEL, AS PER POOL SPECIALIST'S S/S CAP OR ESCUTCHEON
11
45mm Ø 316 STAINLESS STE
12
FIXING DOWEL
13
S/S DOWEL
14
FINGER GRIP
The PLADS is a buildable document, These Standards shall be read and GRAB RAILING DETAIL • Units of measure as KIDDIE indicated allowing for incremental additionsSPOT andDETAIL understood together with a number of POOL GRAB BAR throughout the PLADS are periodic updates as may be needed in related key national documents that in metric-based System response to changing conditions. are part of the legacy of Landscape International (SI). Architecture practice in the country, The Philippine Association of including but not limited to the Landscape Architects (PALA), in following: coordination with the Professional Regulatory Board of Landscape Architecture (PRBoLA), is the responsible authority for the periodic updating, release, and publication of 1. RA 6541 The National succeeding revisions to this document Building Code Figure 4 in whole or in part. 2. RA 9053 The Landscape Metric system used in detail dimensions of a pool Architecture Law of 2000 Where any part of the PLADS is 3. PALA Doc 200 Reconciling Conflicts and Ambiguities deemed necessary for revision without 4. All related Professional the need for a substantial revision of FRONT ELEVATION Regulatory Board ofDETAIL: GRAB-BAR SPOT BAR of any inadvertent • In the GRAB event the entire document, such a revision Landscape Architecture conflicts and ambiguities noted shall be covered by a date-stamped, ( PRBOLA ) resolutions. or cited within the PLADS, numbered Addendum containing 5. Resolutions the more relevant stringent the specific revision or revisions. The 6. Design and Planning measure, parameter, condition, or Addendum shall be considered an Guidelines for Hospitals specification within this document integral part of the Standards. and Other Facilities shall govern. Should there be a 7. Guidebook No. 06: design issue that is not covered, Landscape Architecture a more stringent measure or (PALA, 2020) condition from a recognized set 3
2
SCALE
LA-00
1:20 MTS.
LA-00
SCALE
1:10 MTS.
0.65
D
31
4
0.43
0.3
0.12
LA-00
.08
R0
23
WL
D
CL
31
R0.0
3
5
COPING 0.4
PART OF POOL DECK
LA-00
WL
25
25
32
D
K
.0
7
A
23
R0
0.2
BOW
FFL
FFL
2
WL
32
1
2
3
3
1
A
6
1:20 MTS.
0.03
0.03
12
1
2
3
6
2
SCALE
1
A
32
LA-00
23
0.25
31
0.65
7
R0.0
0.45
A
0.1
FFL
0.25
A
0.3
0.65
3
0.25
31
1
CONCRETE CANT
RECIRCULATING PIPE AS PER POOL SPECIALIST'S LOCATION
LA-00
SCALE
1:10 MTS.
LA-00
23
0.25
23
5
0.3
0.25
D
6
300mm X 400mm X 50mm THK. NATURAL GRANITE STONE, COPING BORDER BULLNOSE TYPE FINISH: FLAMED COLOR: GRAY
D
13
4
10
0.12
D
3
LA-00
A
0.2
23
0.13
•
POOL COPING 0.4
K
5
0.65
LA-00
3
3
VII. Revisions and Companion Volumes
1.2
5
5
Measurement 1
1
0.1
Government authorities at the national level with regulatory powers over development Government authorities at the local level (e.g., provincial governments, Local Government Units) Government authorities regulating professional practice (i.e., Professional Regulation Commission, Board of Landscape PLAN: GRAB-BAR Architecture) Practices of Landscape Architecture-site planning Practices of allied architecture and engineering (A+E) Academic institutions and centers of learning offering degree-granting programs Property developers Landscape and development contractorsSECTION DETAIL
6
BOW
3
•
1:20 MTS.
7
14
BOW
.0
1
5
10
R0
10
A
0.25
5
SCALE
VI. Interpretation
0.25
The PLADS is meant for use and reference by a broad spectrum GRAB RAILING DETAIL of stakeholders in the Landscape ADULT POOL Architecture industry, allied professional fields, and concerned regulatory authorities. These include but are not limited to the following:
4
0.25
5
LA-00
A
3
0.25
5
0.2
V. Stakeholders
WATER PROOFING MEMBR CEMENT BASED TYPE
7 1
A
0.01
A
5
0.65
5
1.2
10
4
0.2
3
0.2
1
0.2
1.2
4
0.2
R0.2
.05
A
4
5
0.2
0.2
R0
A
C/S MORTAR / SCREEDING
A
R0.0
A
3
200mm X 200mm CERAMIC TILES COLOR: IVANA DARK BLUE
A
12
A
WATER LEVEL BOTTOM OF WATER
10
WL
WL A
W.L. B.O.W
11
F
F
A
23
SPOT DETAIL of standards shall apply, observing FINGER GRIP best practices. 4
LA-00
SCALE
1:10 MTS.
5 LA-00
SECTION DETAIL: GRAB-BAR SCALE
1:10 MTS.
7 LA-00
32
23
SPOT DETAIL: LADDER STEP SCALE
1:10 MTS.