📚 Architectural Site Analysis eBook | Architecture Student Guide

Every design decision you defend traces back to how well you read your site. This free eBook, written with Tifa Studio and featured on ArchDaily, covers the full spectrum of context reading: more than 35 site analysis types, more than 40 examples and tens of hints and tips, from climate and views to Lynch analysis, collective memory, socio-economics and future scenarios.

The guide works like a professional checklist. For each factor you learn what to look for, why it matters and how it feeds design decisions, so your analysis stops being a decorative first board and becomes the engine of your project.

📦 What’s inside

• A preface that sets up the method: why every project starts with its context, and a “before starting” flow that checks your theme and programme first.

• A contents page that doubles as a checklist, so you can tick each factor off as you analyse your own site: context reading, site geometry, climate, natural structure, views, site elements, site and city buildings, built environment, activities, ground relationships, collective memory, lifestyles, architectural properties, structural situation, Lynch, soft and hardscape, axis and patterns, position, site philosophy, tonality, land use, socio-economic, emotional, transportation, ownership, solid void, construction techniques, conceptual models, sketches, collages, keywords, heights, noise, odour and pollution, future scenarios and surveys.
• A built example for each factor: the Site Position pages, for instance, explain analysis from macro to micro scale and pair it with OMA’s Mangalem 21 project in Albania.

• Unlimited Q&A: questions about the book are welcome at [email protected].

🧩 Formats and compatibility

Illustrated PDF eBook, delivered as a PDF file and as the same book in a ZIP. It opens in any PDF reader on a computer, tablet or phone.

🎯 Who it is for

Architecture, interior and landscape students starting a site based studio project, and anyone preparing a site analysis board for a review.

💡 Good to know

• Free download.
• Written in collaboration with Tifa Studio (@tifa.studio).
• Free to share with a credit: if you show it in an online broadcast, credit @tifa.studio and @illustrarch.
• Free lifetime updates of this eBook.
• Instant download after checkout.

🚀 Want more?

The Diagram Mega Kit ($15) gives you the tools to draw the analysis: 112 editable diagram templates in nine families including site analysis, 1,894 ready components, 100 precedent analysis sheets and a 105 page handbook. It is also part of the Ultimate Bundle ($69 for all ten packs).