Master
planning is the essential initial stage in transforming the concept for a
property development into an architectural design, engineering blueprint and
active building project. Successful master planning requires direct and
effective communication with the client to best comprehend essential
preferences and needs.
With use of an integrated team approach and collective focus, a master plan
offers centered attention to the placement and design of structures and spatial
configurations to enable optimal connections, activities and interaction within
given areas and spaces. The ultimate quality master plan is at once a basic
definition of a client vision and an effective development tool for participating
stakeholders, funding sources and property development investors.
Major Impact and Effects of Master
Planning in Contemporary Property Development
The primary impact and effects of master planning on contemporary property
development projects often manifest and clarify during the following stages of
a master plan in progress:
• Obtaining and Analysing Project
Information. – This initial stage of creating the master plan involves
gathering data and insight from every area of a property development plan.
Important information to be obtained includes size, purpose and envisioned
operations of the building project to be designed and built. The location, type
and dimensions of the building location site are also primary elements when
gathering information for the master planning stage of a design and
construction project. A projected budget and cost estimate for all aspects of
the design and construction are also major elements of the master planning
phase of a new design and construction project.
• Defining Property Development Vision
and Objectives. – When the client and the building project team
collaborate, everyone, including the client, architects, engineers, interior
designers, contractors and project managers must share a unified vision of the
planned property development during the planning stages. It is also essential
that the entire team of building project professionals has a clear, concise
understanding of the primary objectives of the finished building project and of
each step leading to its successful completion. The vision and objectives of
building plans for a new senior residence will be different from those for a
future complex of corporate office suites, although both can display equal
degrees of unique fashion and optimal functionality for advanced, healthy and
inspiring living and working environments and lifestyles.
• Devising Multiple Options Directed Toward a Preferred Option. – The ideal
master planning for any new design and building project will include multiple
options for completing each phase, purpose and area of the plan, with all
options leading to an eventual preferred option. Only through careful
consideration of each option included can the highly skilled, knowledgeable and
experienced members of the building project team decide on the best possible
preferred option in each category, phase or area along the path to the
project’s completion.
• Finalising Varied Aspects of the
Master Plan. – After all preferred options of the planning, designing and
building project have been determined, the master plan can be finalised to some
degree. However, although the master plan then becomes a document, it remains
as a working, changeable plan to be revised and updated as needed as the
project client’s objectives and requirements may simplify, expand or evolve
just as any living, breathing lifestyle or entity in life may grow, mature,
refine or vitalise.
The ultimate levels of expertise of the master planners, architects, engineers
and designers of Marchese Partners has won heights of acclaim and respect for
this unique team of advanced, innovative planning, designing and building
professionals. Their abundance of talent and experience in all areas of the
master building industry throughout Australia and internationally enables our
fine firm to bring the envisioned building ideas of many worldwide clients to
astutely planned and expertly designed and constructed reality of the highest
advanced caliber of practicality, refinement, comfort and sheer beauty.
