Design Guidelines: Public & Government Buildings

School
- Identify primary users classification pre-school, elementary, secondary and tertiary.
- Consider the three major components of the academe instruction, reasearch and extention.
- Lecture room size as per DECS/CHED requirements shall be 8.00 mts. x 9.00 mts. for 40 students.
Laboratories/studios vary according to nature of activity and equipments involved.
- All doors must swing out towards the corridor side.
- Provide ample movement facilities like hallways, emergency exits, etc.
- Safety and security measures.
- Provide ancilliary facilities.

Research Laboratories
- Holding area for specimens.
- Provisions of work stations and technical library.
- Records vault must be provided.
- Safety and security, surveillance system.
- Databank facilities.

Library
- Determine book holdings.
- Use of ICT features.
- Provide book repairs and work area.
- Ample storage facilities.
- Dumbwaiter must be provided for multi floor libraries
- Ample light and ventilation.

Museums
- Careful study of circulation system / flow of viewers.
- Provide vault for priceless collections
- Provide vault for priceless collections
- Adequate curatorial spaces.
- Flexible service entrance for large exhibit materials.
- Safety and security.

City Halls / Civic Centers

- Application of all laws and provisions on design and construction.
- Heavy, public-oriented / transactional areas must be at the ground floor.
- Presence of government line agencies.
- Flagpole and assembly areas.
- Provide social and recreational facilities.

Hospital
- Strict zoning of areas as to sterile/non-sterile; private/public; quite/noisy etc.
- Relationships of major divisions OPD, Emergency, Clinical, Surgical, Wards, Administrative, Ancilliary,
facilities.
- Create a healing environment.

Fire Stations
- Sanctity of the apparatus floor
- Provide hose tower for hose drying and training.
- Study equipment/apparatus flow.
- Quarters and living areas.
- Administration and nightwatch must be public oriented.
- Equipment storage and facilities like oxygen refill, etc.
- Ancilliary facilities.

Police Stations
- Provide an authoritative booking counter.
- Armory must be near office of station commander.
- Safety and security features.
- Cell separation.
- Quarters and lounge.
- Other ancilliary facilities.

Parks
- Consider specific use like childrens botanical etc.
- Landscaping features are important considerations.
- Harmonious zoning of spaces and facilities
- User friendly, safety and security features.
- Color, texture and forms are salient design factors that must be carefully considered
- Openness quality, free-flowing movement

- Segregation of areas of different activities and features.

- Create harmonizing features/elements
- Provide ancilliary facilities.

Embassies
- Delineation of consular affairs, attaches portfolio office; and ambassadorial office.
- Security safety and evacuation features.
- Quarters for staff and residential units
- Public / social spaces considerations.
- Country image.

Penitentiaries
- Classification of areas by concentric arrangement like maximum security-inner space; medium securitymiddle space; and light security-outer precincts.
- Security/surveillance features
- Recreational/occupational areas.
- Humane environment.
- Ancilliary facilities.

Sports Center
- Provision of facilities accordingly to sport to be accommodated
- Areas for multi purpose activities.
- Provide ample toilet, shower, locker dressing facilities.
- Main floor shall be convertible for other functions.
- Public spaces like bleachers and stadium galleries must be adequately provided with ambulatory
features and amenities.
- Underfloors shall be promoted for other uses like rentable spaces or storage facilities.
- Use of resilient materials
- Ancilliary facilities

Churches (Catholic)
- Follow Design standards for Catholic churches set forth by the episcopal commission as implemented
by the office of the Arzobispado de Manila and the CBCP
- Know the placement of the nave side altars, sanctuary/altar, perpetual adoration chapel of the
sacrament, baptistry, sacristy, choir, rectory, bell tower, etc. and their features.
- Must be conscious of heritage, practices, rituals, and traditions.

- Must be user friendly.

- Must exude piety and serenity.
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Seminary
- Strict zoning of areas according to basic funtions like private, semi-private and public.
- Provide spaces that are conducive for vocation formation.
- Optional provision of Chastity alley if required.
- Provide adequate spaces for spiritual, academic, recreational, social, and cultural.
- Provide ancilliary facilities

Memorial Parks / Cemeteries

- Consider Zoning of areas according to classification like, ground plots, garden types, mausoleums,
Crypt, Cineraria, Angelorio etc.
- Provide amenities for users
- Provide ample parking spaces and convertible spaces especially during all Saints Days.
- Create visual focus, terminal, anchorage.
- Critical consideration for landscaping elements.
- Serene and spiritually motivating ambiance.
- Provide ancilliaries.

DESIGN GUIDELINES: OTHER BUILDINGS

Seaports, Airports, Bus Terminals, Marina
SEAPORTS
- Passenger and cargo traffic must be segregated
- Terminal building must be provided with appropriate facilities for the passengers/users
- If coast guard offices is required it must be provided with communication facilities.
- Land transportation access must be included.
- Passengers concourse / lounges / waiting area must be enough especially during peak season.
- Safety and Security features.
- Porterage facilities.
- Storage facilities must be adequate.
- Be aware of the ships portside in relation to the quay
- Provide breakwater and sandbars if necessary.
- Slipways are optional.
- Other support facilities

AIRPORTS
- Consider the two major areas airside and landside.
- Terminal buildings must have good circulation in terms of passengers and cargo movements.
- Safety and security features.
- Basic amenities
- Provision of airline and courtesy counters
- Portage facilities
- Apron for services at the tarmac area
- Control towers must the most visible feature
- Ample greeters space and parking facilities.

BUS TERMINALS
- Bus circulation in relation to ingress/egress points not the passengers boarding line.
- Passengers concourse must be large enough to accommodate seasonal peaks
- Quarters for driver and conductors.
- Bus service areas for repair/chek-up with for mechanics and other staff.
- Dispatchers booth.
- Ancilliaries

MARINA
- Provision of clubhouse and boardwalk
- Boat/yacht mooring area
- Breakwater features for containment and water stability.
- Boatshed/repairs area.
- Ancilliaries.

DESIGN GUIDELINES: COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS

Banks, Hotels, Resorts, Cinemas, Theaters, Sound Studio, Recording Studio
BANKS:
- The vault shall be located at the most secured, independent spot within the bank itself, minimum wall
thickness shall be 0.30 mtrs. with steel lining.
- The managers cubicle/office needs to be near the public area contrary to conventional layout of
having it secured inside the clerical pool.
- Clear definition of the banking floor and the clerical area must be established
- Straightforward circulation
- Security is primordial so that spatial arrangements must promote this quality/need.

HOTELS:
- Guests needs must be a primary consideration.
- Guests rooms must be provided with adequate facilities according to accommodations, say, single,
double, triple, twin, family, suite types, etc.
- Internal toilets and baths are acceptable since active ventilation is expected. Bed areas must be more
exposed to window areas and views.
- Guest room wing must have housekeeping room per floor.
- Kitchen areas must so accessible to function areas like the banquet hall, ballroom. Function rooms,
poolside and coffee shops.
- Laundry areas / storage facilities / service areas must be adequate and accessible but away from public
view.
- Concierge / administration / business center must be accessible from all points.
- Hospitable atmosphere must pervade in the whole hotel setting.
Resorts:
- Design according to classification like beach resort, mountain resort, island resort, specialty resort, etc.
- Consider their peculiarities.
- Guests amenities must be a primary consideration
- Provide bed and dine facilities
- Safety and security features
- Think of new design idea, making it different from the rest
- If swimming pools are provided, consider organically designed ones like free flowing forms, vanishing
edges etc.
- Provide ancilliary facilities.

Cinemas / Moviehouses:
- Sightlines in relation to the screen and seating location arrangement must be carefully studied
according to the 60 degrees cone of correct vision.
- Fire protection system and exits must be equitably distributed.
- Acoustical treatment / lighting allocation especially on aisles.
- Active ventilation system and utilities.

Sound Studio:
- Control booth at high location with inclined viewing glass for full command of the production floor.
- Catwalks must be provided for light control
- Provide cyclorama at main backdrop for visual illusion of space.
- Provide adequate work space for scenographics construction.
- Dressing rooms with T&B for talents

Recording Studios:
- Provide sound lock and acoustical treatments.
- Apply the principle of a box within a box.
- Control booth with sound consoles.
- Double glazing of glazed portions of walls, doors, and windows/ portholes.
- Floor must be floating or suspended with isolators
- No walls shall be perpendicular with each other
- For re-recording studies (dubbing), provide projector and perforated screen with sound effects pit

DESIGN GUIDELINES: INDUSTRIAL / AGRO-INDUSTRIAL

Industrial Estate, Large Scale Industry, Factories, Shipyards, Mixed Industrial
Industrial Estate:
- Zoning and clustering of related and/or complementing industries.
- Pollution control facilities.
- Careful organization of road networks for facility in movement.
- Safety and security.
- Establish spatial interrelationship between administrative and productive areas.

Large-Scale Industry (Manufacturing):

- Eco-environmental considerations in terms of pollution they create buffer zone must be created.
- Roadway system must accommodate movement of large vehicles and equipments.
- Site zoning according to activities must be clearly established like administrative zone, danger /
offensive / prohibited zones, etc...
- Site utilities like powerhouse, transformer vault, water storage, effluent containment, waste
management, fire protection, STP, and the like must be integrated showing their appropriate location
and possible capacities they serve
- Safety features must be included
Factories:
- Internal zoning of spaces are required. Color coding of areas (floor finish) are preferred to monitor
movement of personnel.
- Catwalks can be provided for easy monitoring. System supervisors must be provided with work
stations/areas
- Clinic must be near the production areas as accidents occur mostly here.
- Loading/unloading zones for finished products and raw materials must be properly located in relation
to storage facilities.
- Pollutants must be checked by providing features to treat them.

Shipyards:
- Stockyard must be large enough to accommodate volume of materials.
- Tidal basin must be deep enough to accommodate large vessels.
- Dry and wet docks must be so located to be oriented towards the waterfront.
- Slipway must be provided
- Boatshed for boat repair must be provided.
Mixed Industrial:
- Vegetative zone between the two major areas must be provided.
- Confinement of each areas to a prospective spot defining certain treatments about their atmosphere.
- Eco-environmental features
- Promotion of facilities for industrial peace and harmony.
- Provide recreational areas and mandatory communal facilities.
Public Markets
- Consider the three basic areas wet, semi-wet and dry markets
- Ventilation and exhaust system must be adequate.
- Fire protection/Suppression system and features.
- Stall size must be in the module 3.00 x 3.00 mts for flexibility of lessee requirements.
- Waste disposal system.
- Provide market master office, storage facilities, and other ancilliary spaces.
- Regional form and image must be incorporated.
- Parking facilities for delivery and the public must be amply provided.
- MRF facilities needed

SLAUGHTERHOUSE
- Sanitation features
- Loading and unloading docks must be carefully planned.
- Poultry and cattle holding stations must be provided
- Waste disposal system.
- Carcass hanger system must be provided.
- Quarters for staff.
- Ancilliary facilities