SUN ORIENTATION
Kitchens are better facing east, living rooms to the south and west. Bedrooms are often better to the north to avoid light disturbance.
The two main ways architects control the effects of the sun on the building is rough the orientation of the building and the overall design structural layout.
For most residential buildings, openings such as doors and windows are preferably not placed along the east-west axis. In commercial buildings, certain areas are left empty on purpose so that sunlight is allowed into the building envelope with minimum obstructions.
VENTILATION
The following design guidelines are selected from the Whole Building Design Guide, a program of the National Institute of Building Sciences:
Maximize wind-induced ventilation by siting the ridge of a building perpendicular to the summer winds
Widths of naturally ventilated zone should be narrow (max 13.7 m [45 feet])
Each room should have two separate supply and exhaust openings. Locate exhaust high above inlet to maximize stack effect. Orient windows across the room and offset from each other to maximize mixing within the room while minimizing the obstructions to airflow within the room.
Window openings should be operable by the occupants
Consider the use of clerestories or vented skylights.
ROUTES AND ACTIVITIES
Inside the site the traffic of vehicles is basically the local residents, and there may be from time to time some services (ex garbage collection), making the streets quiet and easily used by pedestrians.
There are not many people who go through these streets, they are practically used only by residents to access their homes and the channel.
At the entrances of streets in almost every corner, there is a commercial establishment, creating nodes of meeting people, leaving the safest space (no longer exists uncertainty about what might be on the other side of the corner to be more movement) and providing more comfort and convenience for local residents.