Residential Buildings Setbacks,

Facades, Entries & Garages

Residential Setbacks
Setback is the distance between the road, street,
river or shore, or any other area.
Most new residential
areas setbacks (10 to 15)
feet from the property
line
Depends on the
characters of the land
use and right-of-way.

Residential Setbacks
In Redevelopable Areas
and Infill Sites should
complement the
surrounding setbacks of
the buildings.
Where units are set above
finished grad, the set back
may be reduced such as ;
over depressed parking
garages.

Residential Setbacks
If housing occur over the
first floor of commercial
areas no setback is
required
These setbacks
contributes to streets
human scale and activity.
If the residential units are
setback from the streets,
the area should be
landscaped.

Residential Setbacks
In residential areas, minimal front yard setbacks
encourage recessed garages result a larger back yards.
Reduced setbacks creates safer and active streets.

Residential Setbacks in
Japan
Minimum road width 4M.
Older roadways could be
narrower
The setback of building
should be considered by at
least 2M.
Minimum setback ensure
the future widening of the
road and controls urban
density, ease access to firetrucks |1|
1.
http://www.alatown.com/japanesebuilding-law/

Residential Building
Facades
Facades are key factors making streets
Pedestrian- oriented
Facades should have high level of visual
interest

Residential Building
Facades
Diverse building facades avoid boring
streetscape

Residential Building
Facades
Diverse human-scaled facades conduce
pedestrian activities, sense of security and
visual interest.
Front porches creates opportunities for social
interaction with neighborhood and bring eyes on
streets.

Residential Building
Entries
Buildings entries should
have to be oriented to the
streets not to the interior
blocks or parking lots.
Secondary and upper-floor
entries are allowed to be
located in the interior of the
block.
The front-door entries from
single-family houses,
duplexes, and townhouses
should be visible from the
street.

Figure show single-family

house

Figure show
townhouses

Figure show
duplexes

Residential Building
Entries
Access to the alleys, garages,
and parking lots can be
provided by backdoors.
If the additional entries provided
from the streets, a single entry
from the court yard is
permitted.
Ancillary unit, and upper-floor
units in multi-family or
apartment complexes maybe
accessed by rear-entries.

Figure show Backdoor

Figure show Security doors

Residential Garages
The garages should be situated in way to
decrease the visual impact on the streetscapes.
For a singly-family house a garage should be
positioned in four ways;

Side Drive
(Attached)

Side Drive
(Detached)

Recessed Front
Garage

Alley
(Attached or
Detached)

Residential Garages
Recessed garages;
Can overlook the
streets and on playing
children
Ease the
neighborhood activity
Creates more humanscaled and less
monotonous
environment by
minimizing of the
visual impact of large

Figure show Recessed Front

Garage

Residential Garages
Garages should be;
Sited away from the streets,
Behind or below the
residential buildings
If the garages below the
residences, it should be
depressed so that the first
floor of living units is not
more than about four feet
above finish grade.
Tandem parking is permitted
and encourage in garages

Figure Shows Tandem

Garage

Thank
you