Site analysis on Putrajaya Botanical Gardens

Last enbe (Elements of Natural & Built Environment) project taught us how to do site analysis around a city area, now we're going to take it a whole other level - in an established recreation park, and on our own.

In a site study, we're learned to do three phases - site inventory, site analysis and site synthesis.

We're put in a team of 6 very different individuals (and I'm excited!) and I never regretted working with them. We're assigned to conduct a site analysis on Putrajaya Botanical Gardens, which is a half hour drive from campus. So here's to a series of weekends of us gathering in school and driving out to our assigned park together. And we would go home exhausted, tanned and sweaty, bottoms sore from bicycling and walking around the park and impromptu photoshoots.

Here's our presentation on our site analysis :

 The plan before analysing the park - zoning of different areas

 Brief description on what the park is about

 Types of uses

 Categorising of areas around the park

 Types of featured softscapes

 Plus points and weak points of the park

Proposal of solutions to improve the park

We did a presentation but from the lecturers we found out that we missed out on a few parts, like especially how we emphasised on certain points on our boards and the way we composed our content. But overall, the lecturers praised us for being observant around our surroundings.

From this project, I do admit I kind of slacked a little on conducting a proper site analysis. I felt that we should dwelt deeper in our research and not just the obvious signs. We should look at things like the microclimate. And from this, then it's better to come up with more effective solutions to improve the environment.

Kudos to this diverse team of passionate humans. thanks for all the rides and laughter and random group shots.