Abstract / Excerpt:

The Philippines is a rich country with bountiful land, water, and human resources yet many amoral people hols all positions of power in the Philippine Islands. Filipino people are poor and suffering in poverty and great hardship, raising their families in misery, sleeping in squalor and suffering state police oppression all over the country. This nation's police oppression is captured on the acronym ABAKADA (abusado, bastos, kotongero, di kanais-nais na pulis) or commonly known as "rascals" of the Philippine National Police. Social Architecture is the conscious design of an environment that encourages certain social behavior leading towards some goal or set of goals. With this, this research looks at the creation of a defensible community for the newly graduated Philippine National Police officers designated in Davao City which aims to improve the law enforcer's ethical attributes and strengthen professional camaraderie. Surveys and investigations on types of building settlements, compliance with the laws and minimum building requirements, design requirements in a residential community and of a defensible space environment, and needs of the specific residents and of it's families were being studied. Findings and analyses showed that, through realizing the different concepts of defensible planning of spaces, residential planning, and PNP operational units, cohesive architectural results on the development of vales and built environment.

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Source Institution	Ateneo de Davao University
Unit	Engineering and Architecture
Authors	Penas, Rogelienne Joy M.
Page Count	150
Place of Publication	Davao City
Original Publication Date	March 1, 2011
Tags	Architecture, Feasibility Studies

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