Sustainable Village Masterplan
This 125 hectare mixed-use development is situated within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The vision was to deliver a sustainable balanced community within a well integrated layout that responds to people, community and the environment.
The Computational Design & Research group worked with Aedas London design team to develop a series of applications to help inform the emerging landscape-driven masterplan. The main applications focussed on visual envelope, land-use/ mix, and accessibility/ routing/ catchment areas.
Visual Envelope
An application was developed to calculate the maximal developable massing envelope that would not interfere with key viewpoints from the surrounding countryside.
Land-use / mix
Scenarios for land-use allocation were generated automatically on the basis of a specified mix and density, plus constraints such as site-conditions, accessibility levels and adjacency relations.
Accessibility / Routing / Catchment areas
The routing and catchment-area applications developed by the Computational Design & Research group were applied to the site designs to study accessibility levels to transport as well as key destinations such as schools.
01. Buildable envelope generated to retain key views
02. Massing envelope: heights above ground level shown
03. Massing envelope : heights above ground level shown : close up
04. Maximum building heights calculated to retain key views
05. Site loading with land-uses
06. Land use mix application
07. Land uses automatically distributed on site according to contextual data
08. Walking distances to bus stops
