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International Masterplanning Profile

Masterplanning An Introduction

Llewelyn Davies Yeang have an innovative approach to masterplanning, based on the ecological concept of physical planning as an environmentally benign and seamless biointegration of four infrastructures. These are categorised by our Design Director Ken Yeang as: the green ecoinfrastructure; the grey engineering infrastructure; the blue water management infrastructure; and the red infrastructure (being our human infrastructure of buildings, enclosures, hardscapes and legislations), and biointegrated at three levels: physical, systemic and temporal. These ideas in totality define a radically new approach to physical planning one that is environmentally driven, and which takes the earlier landscape-driven ecological landuse approach (e.g. that proposed by Ian McHarg et al) to a new level. Ecomasterplanning reinforces the specificity of a site, more than the traditional contextual analysis, comprehension of place, history, connectivity, etc. Whilst reinforcing the importance of these factors, ecomasterplanning penetrates much deeper into the natural loci and context of the site. This fundamentally unlocks a positive ecological attitude to a project which, at the outset, defines the design process and outcome within its green infrastructure or ecoinfrastructure, as natures own infrastructure. This process also ensures concurrent responses to cultural context and to the local community, which have overwhelmingly evolved from their geographic and environmental background. Formally, our projects exude a signature spirit and energy that create unique plan forms and built configurations. Underpinning this is a parallel deep understanding of an approach to masterplanning that signals a major leap forward in the way we consider and plan for sustainable and responsible environments, whilst ensuring they embody pleasurable experiences for users and address the need to deliver financial successes to their clients. Ecomasterplanning represents a significant move forward, given the global context and imperative within which we all now function. The approach points towards a future for planning. It recognises that the essence of an appropriate response resides in a deep understanding of the role and responsibilities of the masterplanner towards adopting an affirmative ecological approach to planning design. Looking back 40 years, to when physical planning at Llewelyn Davies Yeang began in the optimistic and opportunistic context of 1960s England, the firm of LlewelynDavies, Weeks, Forestier- Walker & Bor was appointed as town planners for the new city of Milton Keynes. Both Richard Llewelyn-Davies, (a veteran of the Architectural Association (AA), and John Weeks (a science-architect) were pioneering the powerful intellectual concept of indeterminacy in the design of complex building types and planning systems. Milton Keynes provided the opportunity to apply these principles at a macro scale, where, the new city offers an opportunity for imaginative study, invention and experiment and could lead to a new model for urban life. A benchmark masterplan and urban design commission by the company in the mid1970s was the Shahestan Pahlavi, a new city centre for Tehran, Iran. This influential project put Llewelyn-Davies at the forefront of urban design in the UK and overseas. The groups experience and planning continued to extend in the 1980s to the Far and Middle East. This influence continued in the UK, with the company setting the new design and planning agendas in the 1990s, driven largely by the recognition of the importance of sustainability in the way we plan, design and build our environments. Our work on sustainable urban regeneration laid the foundations for the strategy and policy direction of the London mayor in his strategic planning guidance for London, focussing on the intensification of brownfield sites, championing urban design and delivering sustainable mixed-use developments.

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By 2005, this mood of innovation and reinvention led to the formation of Llewelyn Davies Yeang, with the introduction of Ken Yeang into the company. Dr Yeang brought with him an immense heritage in his thinking on ecological design and planning, in his published works and built projects that stretch over three decades. Critically, his undisputed knowledge and body of work in the field of eco-planning and green design was synergistic with our existent reputation in sustainable masterplanning. The fusion collectively reinforces the concept of ecomasterplanning and its promise for sustainable physical planning, not just in our current planning work, but for others in this field as an approach to masterplanning that is critical for a sustainable future. Steve Featherstone, Managing Director June 2011

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Design Approach

Our design approach, which we believe is unique to Llewelyn Davies Yeang, embodies the concurrent development of 3 models at the outset of the project. The 3 models are: General Design Model Cost Model Green Model The objective of this approach is to ensure that the project proceeds confidently upon clearly understood financial parameters that define the affordable design and green objectives of the project.
The General Design Model

This is the clients traditional development or design brief that clearly sets out the project requirements (e.g. schedules of net and gross areas, car parking requirements, planning policy, site constraints, spatial adjacencies, aesthetic aspirations, programme, etc.).
The Cost Model

The General Design Model provides the quantitative and qualitative basis to prepare the project budget as a component of an overall Financial Model. The initial Cost Model is reviewed and agreed with the client before commencing the design. If the Cost Model does not meet the clients overall expectations, the General Design Model may need to be adjusted until both models correlate and are acceptable to the client.
The Green Model:

From these 2 models, and based on previous data/experience, we extrapolate a projected green model which enables the client to understand the green features / sustainability targets which are affordable within the financial parameters of the project. This approach embodies green thinking at the initial stages of the project and avoids expensive, retrofit, bolt-on green gadgetry to meet statutory sustainability targets. Correlation: All 3 models need to correlate with each other i.e. The General Design, the Cost and the Green Models. If these do not correlate then we review the objectives of the project with the client to determine which model needs to be adjusted to commence full concept design. Schematic Design Design work proceeds and each model is developed in parallel with the crafting of a design concept. Compliance The Schematic Design is concluded when it is compliant with all three models and is aesthetically, conceptually and financially acceptable to the Client. In summary, the Llewelyn Davies Yeang approach provides the following client benefits: Greater cost and quality certainty Commercial optimization Affordable response to meeting statutory sustainability targets Mutually agreed design and delivery objectives Reduced programme risk

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Introduction to Eco Systems Llewelyn Davies Yeang Eco Systems is a new unit of Llewelyn Davies Yeang providing innovative and sustainable solutions to public and private sector clients, businesses, industries, developers, builders, designers and architects to make their projects, businesses, operations and processes sustainable and deep green, and which we will certify with international accreditation and rating systems. Llewelyn Davies Yeang Eco Systems provides a collaboration of distinguished skills, bringing together Llewelyn Davies Yeangs three decades of visionary work on deep green thinking, with practical and exemplary ecoengineered solutions, strategies and systems. We will develop for you effective total green strategies for your project, business to improve the environment in the most sustainable way with smart and integrated solutions.
Total Green Design solutions: Design that looks at your business and its processes and your projects as a whole from cradle to cradle; including energy use, water use, management systems, efficient mechanical and electrical systems, pollution and emissions control and assimilation, land use, health and internal environments, construction, operation and maintenance. Eco-Masterplanning for architects and planners: Masterplanning guidance to ensure the masterplan layout and infrastructures (e.g. energy, transport, water, utilities, etc.) and buildings are sustainable and deep green. International Sustainable Environmental Certification: Advice, design and guidance of buildings, masterplans and businesses to be green, including ecosystems design, energy, water, recycling etc. for the compliance to standards such as BREEAM, LEED, the Code for Sustainable Homes, SAP or ISO14001. Building Energy Evaluation and Audit: Acknowledging the energy use early on, in relation to regulations, planning or certification requirements, and its integration into the building form, can result in financial savings and leaner designs. Building Performance Simulations: Building performance simulation aids novel and green design concepts through detail understanding of natural ventilation, passive solar heating, shading, energy use, daylight and solar access of the building interior and exterior. Renewable and Low Carbon Energy solutions and assessments: We compare a variety of technologies such as solar hot water, photovoltaics, wind energy, solar air collectors, biomass, ground source heat pump and CHP; helps in choosing the most viable systems for the project. Advice on Green Materials Selection and Specifications: Assist architects, interior designers, building owners and builders on green building materials selection and specifications which do not harm the environment and peoples health along their lifecycle. R&D assignments: Research and development to support specific Eco-Systems design services.

STATEMENT ON DEEP GREEN DESIGN: Deep green goes beyond all elements of

an accreditation rating systems checklist. It seeks to integrate our human built environment with the natural environment in a seamless and benign way, systemically, physically and temporally.. Dr. Ken Yeang (Design Director, Llewelyn Davies Yeang).

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King Abdullah City for Atomic Renewable Energy

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Client KA-CARE Project description

Completion Ongoing

Value

King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy is planned to be a beacon signalling the way to a sustainable future. The new city for a planned population of 250,000 residents exploits the attributes of the site while protecting the natural environment. At the very heart of the masterplan of the city is the proposed King Abdullah Gardens a desert oasis that will be a haven of calm. KA-CARE will be a Compact City, approximately 7km long, to ensure that its carbon footprint is low, that communication distances are reduced and the city becomes in all respect more sustainable. The city presents a vision of the future desert city one that is entirely driven by renewable energy. KA-CARE will strive to promote a new lifestyle that shows that sustainability is easy and beneficial People are encouraged to think differently about the food they eat, goods they buy, modes of transport they use, and spaces they inhabit. The Masterplan will promote and encourage commercial projects. Floor space is provided for research institutes and a Nuclear Research Reactor and for start-up small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) arising from the research. The master

plan also includes conference centres, hotels, a museum and exhibition halls. A sports stadium is also included in the facilities at the heart of the city.
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Dubai Waterfront
Dubai

Client Nakheel and Dubai Waterfront Company

Completion Confidential

Value Confidential

Project description

The Llewelyn Davies Yeang masterplan is driven by an ecological agenda that seeks to connect the islands with the existing marine ecology and Xeriscape desert landscape. Buildings will employ passive cooling and reinterpret in contemporary forms vernacular architectural and urban patterns. Renewable sources of energy in the form of wind turbines, photo voltaic installations and solar technology will be employed. The masterplan of the development is conceptually the fronds of a date palm tree. It conveys a sense of fun, a refreshing response to the awful drabness of much of contemporary urban design. The islands will be an idyllic escape from the pressures of business life in a resort-like setting.

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Istanbul Urban Design

Kucukcekmece Avcilar, Istanbul, Turkey

Client Greater Istanbul Municipality

Completion 2009 - 2010

Project description

Llewelyn Davies Yeang has won an International Design Competition to produce a masterplan for a major waterfront site in Istanbul. Located on a major transportation route linking Istanbul with the rest of Turkey the site is dominated by the busy E5 motorway linking Europe with the City and by much unplanned development. The area however has enormous potential to become a major gateway site for the City sitting as it does at the impressive junction between the mountains and the Kucukcekmece Lake to the north and the Sea of Marmara to the south with dramatic coastal and inland views. Our design promotes the formation of a new bio-nexus linking the mountain and upland ecology to the north with the coastal ecology to the south. This will create an ecological corridor making the existing ecosystem for the locality whole again besides enhancing the areas biodiversity. The proposals envisage a 2 kilometre long continuous ecological corridor (with eco land bridges) that serves as a lively new urban park for the city. A range of informal and formal programmes are anticipated that will may include a dolpinarium, national cultural centre, world ecology biomes, water park, marina, new canals, hotels, residential and leisure areas as well as a wide range of new public spaces and beaches.

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Raja Rajeshwari Nagar, Omkar Enclave

Bangalore, India Client Soma Developers Pvt. Ltd

Project description

The overall masterplan comprises of the following: Residential (Luxury Villas, low-rise condominium and high-rise condominium) Retail and Commercial Infrastructure Green Open Space The key feature of the masterplan is an ecological corridor that weaves its way across the 86.75 acres of land in a continuous ecological nexus with green bridges and tunnels that links all the green spaces enhancing ecological biodiversity. The ecological corridor will be landscaped with Vashtu compliant concepts, with a water management system (bio-swales and water retention ponds). The physical development is designed around the green spaces to enhance social connectivity and a pleasurable lifestyle. This green masterplan will be enhanced with green technology with the use of environmentally friendly and recyclable materials, maximum openings for natural lighting and ventilation, roof gardens and green terraces, rainwater harvesting, and low energy building design. This green masterplan seeks to harmonise with Vashtu Shastra principles.
Project designed by T.R. Hamzah Yeang Sdn.Bhd., sister company to Llewelyn Davies Yeang

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University of Amsterdam Master Plan

Watergraafsmeer, Amsterdam, Netherlands Client University of Amsterdam Completion 2001 - 2002 Value 136m

Project description

The University of Amsterdam required a new complex on its existing WCTW site to house an additional 192,800 m2 of faculty buildings and associated facilities, including a Congress Center and Hotel, ranging between 5 and 20 stories. The design was approached as an urban ecosystem, to create an environmentally holistic design solution that considers the facility in terms of the flow of people, water, vegetation, energy and waste. The scheme strategy was to unify the buildings by enveloping the spaces between buildings and creating an efficient, compact development, encouraging social and communal usage with shared common facilities, such as an upper level Concourse, an interaction zone. The interaction zone at Concourse level contains central facilities and cultural activities, including food, retail and entertainment, as well as a wireless IT hub. This pedestrian and cycle-friendly scheme has minimal environmental impact, linking efficiently with other parts of the city and reducing reliance on carbon-emitting motor vehicles. Parking is provided for 2,500 bicycles, but only 700 cars.
Project designed by T.R. Hamzah Yeang Sdn.Bhd., sister company to Llewelyn Davies Yeang

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Master Plan for New University Campus

Malaysia Client Nottingham University in Malaysia Completion 2001 Value 30m

Project description Umbrella Building

The whole linear grouping is layered by a series of overhead, over lapping canopies and trellises that give partial protection from solar gain and rain. Ken Yeangs version of an extended bio-climatic roof-shield or umbrella. The canopies provide protection and shade for the roof level gardens and induce natural ventilation across the residential units that surround open courtyards and cross ventilate the occupied spaces. The residential buildings incorporate trellis-top swimming pools and clubhouses. Cafes and shops located at ground level are under canopies that allow freedom of pedestrian movement - sheltered from the scorching hot sun and tropical rains.
Environmental Filter

The sweeping gesture of the hovering trellises and canopies acts as a giant environmental filter to the Malaysian climate, lowering the energy consumption of buildings below and creating indoor/outdoor public spaces for incidental events and interaction assisted by ecological architecture.
Project designed by T.R. Hamzah Yeang Sdn.Bhd., sister company to Llewelyn Davies Yeang.

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Rotterdam Ecocity
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Client OVG

Completion 2008

Project description

Following the principles of ecomasterplanning, the design for the Rotterdam waterfront attempts to consider the design of the human built environment and the natural environment as one single living system in a mutually beneficial relationship, giving the highest priority to connectivity of the natural systems.

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West Kowloon Waterfront

Hong Kong Client Hong Kong Government Completion 2004 Value USD600m

Project description

This site provides the last opportunity to give to Hong Kong a great urban park equivalent to those found in major cities of the world like Central Park in New York or Hyde Park in London. With a new landscaped site-coverage of over 94%, this will be the largest urban park in Hong Kong, framing the waterfront in a lush green dynamic setting. Our masterplan focuses on the park as an ecological corridor that links key green spaces in Kowloon, as a necklace that links together waterfront activities, commercial, retail, residential, cultural and recreational community spaces in one single unique development. This ecological corridor is designed as a green jacket over the retail, entertainment, cultural and other facilities that are placed on top, below, or sandwiched between the green jacket. Ecocells are introduced to bring natural light, natural ventilation and pedestrians form the park down to the subterranean parking. This is an ecological design solution that seeks to provide an environmentally sustainable urban ecosystem as a major park within the intensive city of Hong Kong, while fulfilling the arts, cultural and recreational programmes of the community.
Project designed by T.R. Hamzah Yeang Sdn.Bhd., sister company to Llewelyn Davies Yeang

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