ROAD LAYOUTS

STREET PATTERNS
GEOMETRIC: Linear or Street Ribbon: A straight road used to connect one community to another. Crossings are few and far between.

GRIDIRON: Site is divided into square or rectangular blocks. Advantages: Blocks and services are easy to layout. Disadvantages: Causes traffic congestion due to the frequent crossings created.

MANHATTAN

Gridiron street pattern imposed on the landscape without paying attention to the topography.

RADIAL: Used to connect the center of the city to the outskirts in a ripple manner.

BARON HAUSSMANS PARIS BOULEVARDS

METRO MANILA ROAD MAP

Combination halfcircumferential and radial roads.

MEANDERING: Used in highly mountainous sites. Following the contours of the topography.

MEDIEVAL TOWNS

COMBINATION: Using both the geometric and meandering street patterns. Geometric street pattern is used where the terrain is flat and meandering where the terrain is rolling.

MODIFIED GRIDS: Advantage: Easy and direct manner as well as the easy installation of services following the grids of the streets. Disadvantage: Its relative monotony.

TYPICAL GRID

MODIFIED GRID: Central Loop

MODIFIED GRID: Outside Loop

CUL-DE-SAC: Shaped so that the fronting houses automatically create an enclosed space. Should not be longer than 500m A long version is considered a straight street with a turnaround Utilizes an odd parcel of land to full advantage

CUL-DE-SAC

CUL-DE-SAC

LOOPS: Good opportunities exist for varied and interesting house groups on lots flanking looped streets. Disadvantage: Narrowness of certain lot frontages esp. along the curvature of the loop.

STREET CLASSIFICATION

Major Roads - Major arterials, highways, bi-ways, expressways, super-highways, freeways, motorways, autobahns, etc. Secondary Roads - Minor arterial, avenue, boulevard, etc. Collector Streets - Main interior streets Local Streets - Local service streets Cul-de-sac - Dead-ends, turn around, T junction, Y junction, hammer, loop

DEAD-ENDS

CAPACITY & CHARACTER

Capacity refers to the no. of vehicles that can move safely through a segment within a given time.
No.

of lanes and their widths, curb radius, super elevation of the pavement

Character refers to its suitability for pedestrian activities and a variety of bldg. types
Associated

bldgs., frontage, and landscape types, and sidewalk width

A long-distance, medium speed vehicular corridor that traverses open country. It should be relatively free of intersections, driveways and adjacent buildings; otherwise it becomes a strip, which interferes with traffic flow.

AUTOBAHN, GERMANY

A long-distance, medium speed vehicular corridor that traverses an urbanized area. It is usually lined by parallel parking, wide sidewalks, or side medians planted with trees. Buildings uniformly line the edges.

BARON HAUSSMANS PARIS BOULEVARDS

CHAMPS ELYSEE, PARIS

A short-distance, medium speed connector that traverses an urban area. Unlike a boulevard, its axis is terminated by a civic building or monument. An avenue may be conceived as an extremely elongated square.

WASHINGTON D.C.

QUEZON AVENUE

An edge bet. An urban and a natural condition, usually along a waterfront, park or promontory. One side of the drive has the urban character of a boulevard, with sidewalk and buildings, while the other has the qualities of a parkway, with naturalistic planting and rural detailing.

LAKESHORE DRIVE, CHICAGO

STREET

A small-scale, low speed local connector. Streets provide frontage for highdensity buildings such as offices, shops, apartment buildings and rowhouses. A street is urban in character, with raised curbs, closed drainage, wide sidewalks, parallel parking, trees in individual planting areas, and bldgs. aligned on short setbacks.

RURAL ROADS

A small-scale, low speed connector. Roads provide frontage for low-density bldgs. Such as houses. It tends to be rural in character with open curbs. The rural road has no curbs and is lined by pathways, irregular tree planting, and uncoordinated bldg. setbacks.

ALLEYS
A narrow access route servicing the rear of the buildings on a street. Alleys have no sidewalks, landscaping, or building setbacks. They are usually paved to their edges, with center drainage via an inverted crown.

LANE
A narrow access route behind houses on a road. Lanes are rural in character with a narrow strip of paving at the center or no paving.

PASSAGE
A very narrow, pedestrianonly connector cutting between buildings. It provides shortcuts through long blocks or connect rear parking areas with street frontages. It may be roofed over and lined by shopfronts.

PATH
A very narrow pedestrian and bicycle connector traversing a park or the open country.

PARKING

TYPICAL PARKING LAYOUT

TYPICAL PARKING FOR BUILDING

TYPICAL PARKING FOR BUILDING

TYPICAL PARKING FOR BUILDING

TYPICAL PARKING FOR BUILDING

TYPICAL PARKING FOR BUILDING

TYPICAL PARKING FOR BUILDING

TYPICAL PARKING FOR BUILDING

TYPICAL PARKING FOR BUILDING