Concept Vision Development
Foreword
The concept Master Plan, based on the level of information and
assumptions available at this initial stage, is the foundation that translates a
vision into a clear graphic footprint for the entire project.
It establishes a base line for potential development and it creates a base
picture illustrating opportunities and challenges to be further developed.
The Master Plan suggests a scheme, which is clear in its urban
coniguration and in the organization of urban planning and architectural
elements. It ixes some basic rules, it deines one possible functional
scenario, and on the other hand, it leaves a high level of lexibility to vary
and adapt the volumes to future requirements and needs.
The Master Plan deines a path, rather than a ixed solution; it suggests
ideas, inspirational elements, patterns and tools, to provide an initial set of
rules to govern the massing, the open areas, the hierarchy of spaces and a
sense of the place. It is the framework for the next stages of Master Plan
development when the base scheme will be tested and carefully veriied
with the local market conditions and when targets and inancial objectives
will be discussed and shared with the client to meet the stakeholders’
expectations.
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