MASTER PLANING
ECPL designers are typically engineers, architects, town planners, or landscape architects. Their expertise lies in integrating ideas from developers, local communities, architects, planners, traffic engineers, landscape architects, transport planners, and other professionals. They work collaboratively to resolve challenges and conflicts, ultimately creating better places for everyone. This process may lead to the development of new urban spaces or a renewed appreciation of existing city, town, and village landscapes. Urban designers can be employed by developers, local planning authorities, or community organizations, including neighborhood planning groups.
HOW BIG OR SMALL ARE ECPL PROJECTS?
ECPL plays a crucial role in developing master plans and design guidelines for large-scale areas, as well as crafting detailed designs for local streets and public spaces. It focuses on designing for people at a human scale, enhancing quality of life and creating attractive, enduring places that hold long-term value. Just like any well-designed object, a place must be functional, visually appealing, durable, and cost-effective to build and maintain. Incorporating economic, social, and environmental value into projects does not necessarily increase costs but requires a broader perspective, one that urban designers adopt from the earliest stages of a project. This is the essence of what urban designers do.
WHAT KIND OF PROJECTS CAN IT HELP?
ECPL is versatile and so designers can produce ideas and work that is indicative or specific, strategic or detailed, and this is reflected in the types of drawings, reports and ways of working commonly used:
ECPL is visionary: creating a ‘vision’ to show the economic, social and environmental benefits of investment or changes at a strategic scale over a wide area and over a long period of time. This is usually conveyed through a vision statement, projecting forward 20-25 years’ time to explain the future characteristics of an area and how people will use it.
This can then be complemented by a development framework, outlining the key physical features that will deliver the vision.
MASTER PLANNING/TOWN PLANING DEPT
ECPL is fact-finding: Designers gather data and evidence about places to identify future options, and test the feasibility and viability of change or development in context, for example transport and infrastructure capacity, development character and density, environmental capacity issues (such as flooding), plus local community needs and values. Feasibility studies usually include options and a recommendation on the best fit’ scenario.
ECPL can be illustrative: using masterplans, artists’ impressions, photomontages, 3D models and photographs of other successful places, designers can bring to life how a development could look. This includes highlighting important local characteristics, landmarks and public spaces. Illustrative masterplans often show just one way in which design guidelines can be built out.
ECPL setting specifications – site-specific masterplans set out precise proposals for which planning consent is being sought, and the use, size, form and location of buildings, roads and open spaces, which are fixed. A local planning authority may prepare a site-specific development brief, which sets out the main characteristics required, and it allows developers to draw up a proposed scheme in response. Masterplans and design codes bring together plot-specific requirements for a site, which development proposals will need to comply with in order to be approved.
A local planning authority can also identify district-wide character design policies, which set out a combination of broad-brush design ideas – relating to materials and roof styles, for example – and specific requirements, such as minimum back-to-back distances for residential developments.
CONCEPTUAL PLANNING
- Conceptual land use planning, Generalized land use distribution of the project.
- Major circulation patterns and frameworks and proposal for efficient accessibility to scheme.
- 2D Layout planning, pre concept.
- Development strategy /vision/plan.
- Theme of masterplan.
- Mood images.
- 3D massing (Exterior view)
- Pre-concept presentation of initial planning options
MASTER PANNING
- Preparation of selected Conceptual Layout / land use plan, Zoning plan.
- Major circulation patterns and frameworks and proposal for efficient accessibility to scheme.
- 3D visualization preparation of 3d views (bird eye, road views, Arial views & night view).
- Road Cross Sections & Land Use Area calculations.
- Preparation of Master plan on the basis of topographic survey, user requirements and asper standard town planning practices.
- Urban design, streetscape and Architectural guidelines.
- Develop a landscaping plan that enhances the aesthetic value of the site, including plantselection, garden layouts, and green spaces.
- Design safe and accessible footpaths for pedestrians, ensuring compliance with accessibilitystandards.
- Plan and design parking spaces to meet the demand of staff, visitors, and emergencyvehicles.
- Integrate drainage systems within landscaping areas to manage water runoff from hardsurfaces like footpaths and parking areas.