Masterplanning & Urban Design.
Creating a unique sense of place.
Within our skillset as masterplanners, we look to design high quality residential developments with a distinctive and unique sense of place. Our schemes foster a strong connection between new residential spaces and the surrounding natural context. By placing emphasis on sequences of green spaces we provide biophilic focal points throughout our proposals, creating a strong sense of identity and community for residents and visitors alike.
Drawing on the extensive knowledge of our in-house landscape designers, we integrate enhanced landscape borders, woodland walks, and tree lined green corridors within our masterplans, seamlessly blending more organised street hierarchies with the organic forms of nature across a site.
Regenerating an iconic brewery site.
Our vision was underpinned by the need to respect and honour the town’s medieval radial settlement plan, by recreating the original “outer settlement” which once sat bound by the outer defences along the waters edge. In so doing we will preserve and enhance the town’s unique character while introducing a contemporary, thoughtfully designed space.
Introducing a strong sense of identity, safety and accessibility are just several of the defining characteristics of the Brewery Wharf project. A sequence of routes and spaces defined by carefully designed and positioned buildings which embody the site’s heritage, including form, scale, materiality and detailing, will work in harmony to create an exemplar neighbourhood.
A green campus with wellbeing at its core.
Challenging existing workplace structures, we place worker wellbeing at the heart of our approach. In our masterplan for 250,000sqft of health science orientated floorspace, we chose to elevate the existing natural setting from a set of back land constraints into a thriving green heart with unique character and placemaking identity.
Building plots are arranged to address and interact with this green heart, avoiding the barrier of a visual sea of car parking which instead are placed discretely between the outer edges. Throughout we sought to encourage and optimise the user experience on foot and via the use of electric bikes and scooters, whilst minimising vehicular movements across the campus between commuter peaks.
Reconnecting children with nature.
We are passionate about creating opportunities for everyone to experience the benefits of being outdoors. Our masterplan proposal for a children’s charity provided activity camps for disabled children and young adults across a 73 acre site in the countryside.
The design included separate campuses for 100 boys and 150 girls, as well as a central campus with shared sports facilities. The accommodation blocks are laid out in courtyards to provide protected outdoor spaces for the children to play and explore safely.
Enhancing a countryside setting.
Set in a land parcel at the edge of a Wiltshire village, our design revitalised an existing proposal by improving the layout efficiency, and overall numbers.
With the original layout presenting mainly blank side elevations to the west, we looked to re-orientate the layout so that properties within the development were facing outward, providing greatly improved long approach views while also providing the properties themselves with improved views across the countryside.
Natural living by the Thames.
Regenerating a 44-acre former estate and fishery, our masterplan centred around a new Thames-side home for the client and his family. A new replacement dwelling was sited within the existing residential curtilage with adjoining landscaped gardens, private marina, private sports facilities, animal pens, winery, and vineyard.
Existing water pools in the east were consolidated into wetland habitats as part of an extensive rewilding strategy with a private nature walk. Damaged structures in the south-west are to be refurbished into a fine dining restaurant facility with foraging in the adjacent woodland.
