CEBU BUSINESS PARK

Cebu Business Park is currently the largest operating PEZA accredited special economic zone
in the country. With 50 hectares of land, Cebu Business Park faces not only the demand of
space for growth of businesses and commercial trade but also the challenges of operating
responsibly and optimizing the value of the land for sustainability.

The Cebu Business Park being part of the Cebu Park District leaps into the opportunity of being
a trendsetter on master-planned communities. Today Cebu Business Park provides bigger
green spaces, landscaped areas and tree-lined avenues that serve as parks and carbon sinks.
The park continuously improves sidewalks and pedestrian access to encourage walking instead
of using cars. Cebu Business Park has also introduced innovative systems of management
such as wastewater treatment facilities and recycling facilities.

Cebu Business Park is an actualized, self-contained business community with an innovative

location that utilizes the park concept. The parks deed of restriction requires each lot owner to
keep 20% of their property dedicated to open spaces and or greens to contribute to the parks
over-all sustainability as a breathable enclave. Cebu Business Park continues to be a thriving
district of mixed-used blocks with fully landscaped green strips.
Research Videos

1. Urban Design Technique

Locate interesting features and landmarks in and around the site.

Identify potential access points and connections to the surrounding streets.

Join up the access points as the foundation of a new street pattern.

Establish the route hierarchy.

Identify the best locations for land uses.

Add street types to best support the uses.

Add in land subdivision, plots and structures. Manipulate widths, heights,

setbacks mass, scale and density to support the selected land uses.

Make sure that all public spaces, especially streets are overlooked and directly
accessed on the ground floor by the building.

Confirm land use location

Modify the layout to increase access, legibility, interest, richness of experience

and ambiance.

Five Underlying Schemes for Urban Design

Urban Drama and Complexity ( Projection and Recession)

Legibility of Form and Function

Overlaying Multiple Uses

Serial Vision

Streetscapes and Sensory Richness

2. Healthy Community Planning

Increase bike-pedestrian access

Improving parks and recreational spaces

Walkability

3. Making an Attractive City

Six Fundamental Things a City Needs to Get Right

Not too chaotic and not too in order (organize complexity; order and
variety)

Visible life (streets full of life)

Compact (open space that feels like an extension of a home; open

spaces should make people feel containment and not claustrophobia)

Orientation and mystery (boulevard and alleys; towers should be built and
designed for best ambitions and provide a long term need)

Making design and vibes local (relation to the strong character of the city;
use of local materials and forms)