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Case Stud y Checklist
A. SITE LEVEL
1. Site details
• Location
• History
• Nearest Landmark
• Major Access to site - Entry and Exit
• Road Geometrics in the site
• Topography
• Utilities
► Water Supply, Electricity, telepho ne, Sanitary, Fire, Storm
water drainage, Waste disposal, etc.
• Surrounding Context
► Neighbo rhood structures, Views-Vistas, Noise from streets,
etc.
• Parking facilities
• Landscape features
• Any sustainable aspects, eg: Rainwater harvesting, etc.
e. Building Level
2. Planning study
► Horizontal & Vertical zoning of spaces.
► Typology of spaces
► Hierarchy of spaces
3. Parking Level(s) planning
• Entry and Exit ramps
• Spaces and Numbers
• Signage's
• Safety and security
• Circulation routes
• Any advanced system of parking
4. Floor Plans study
• Eachlev elstudy
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• Vertical cores - analysis
• Any philosophy/ theme in planning
• Circulation routes for public (Horiz.,Vert., Visual)
• Circulation Service routes (Horiz.,Vert.)
• Administration spaces, service spaces
5. Services
• Lighting (Natural and Artificial)
• HVAC
• Water supply and Sanitation
• Fire Safety
• Elevators/ Escalators
• Waste disposal
• Communication
6. Structural and Constructional Techniques
7. Material Study
• At Site Level - pavements, Steps, Entrance Flooring, etc.,
• Building Level
• Flooring details of Common spaces, passages
• Atriums, Shop Interiors
• Fa~ade treatments
• Roof detai Is
• Wall claddings
• Service spaces
• Detailing of any special feature/ technique.
8. Activity Study
• Use of different spaces
• Activities in common spaces, passages, around elevators, entrance-exit.
• Recreational Areas (play zones)
• Food Courts
• Seating Spaces and Resting spaces
• Study and analysis based on Anthropometrics
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