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Before the buildings: the land

Before the buildings: the land

Before the buildings: the land

For sites with more than one building — family compounds, small resorts, wellness retreats, staged developments — the important decisions happen before any single building is drawn: where access runs, how water moves, what each parcel sees and shades.

For sites with more than one building — family compounds, small resorts, wellness retreats, staged developments — the important decisions happen before any single building is drawn: where access runs, how water moves, what each parcel sees and shades.

What the work includes

  • Site analysis — access, slope, drainage, sun, and wind

  • Zoning and massing studies

  • Building placement and the relationships between built and open space

  • Circulation, access, and infrastructure routing

  • Phasing strategy for staged construction

  • A framework the later architecture stages inherit

  • Site analysis — access, slope, drainage, sun, and wind

  • Zoning and massing studies

  • Building placement and the relationships between built and open space

  • Circulation, access, and infrastructure routing

  • Phasing strategy for staged construction

  • A framework the later architecture stages inherit

Where it leads

A masterplan is the first stage, not the whole story. Individual buildings then move into architecture as their own commissions, inheriting the constraints and intentions the plan established.

A masterplan is the first stage, not the whole story. Individual buildings then move into architecture as their own commissions, inheriting the constraints and intentions the plan established.

Start a conversation

If you’re looking at land and trying to understand what it can hold, that’s exactly the conversation to have early.

If you’re looking at land and trying to understand what it can hold, that’s exactly the conversation to have early.