Expertise
Master plans that sequence growth over decades, not phases.
Site and campus planning for clients who need to build in stages without the first stage compromising the ones that follow.
Planning consultancy is the layer of work that happens before architecture — deciding how a site should be organized, how a campus should grow over multiple funding cycles, how circulation and utilities should be sized for a scale that won't be built for another ten years. Get this stage wrong and no amount of good building design later can fully fix it.
Our planning work is informed directly by the phased-construction problem we solve repeatedly in healthcare and institutional architecture: clients rarely build their full vision at once, so the plan has to anticipate every future phase from the first drawing, even though only one phase will be funded today.
Our planning consultancy covers site master planning, campus growth strategy, and land-use and circulation studies, most often as the first stage of a longer architecture and interior design engagement, though it's also offered as a standalone consultancy.
What’s included
- Site master planning and land-use strategy
- Multi-phase campus growth planning
- Circulation and utility-backbone sizing for future expansion
- Feasibility and site-selection studies
- Regulatory and zoning coordination at the planning stage
Frequently asked
What does a planning consultancy do that an architect doesn't?
Planning consultancy resolves site-wide and multi-building decisions — land use, circulation, phased growth — before individual building architecture begins. It's the layer that determines whether later building phases will fit together or fight each other.
Can you provide planning consultancy without also designing the buildings?
Yes — planning consultancy is offered as a standalone service, though it's most often the first stage of a longer engagement that continues into architecture and interior design.
How far ahead should a masterplan account for future growth?
As far as the client's realistic long-term vision extends, even if only the first phase is funded — utilities, circulation, and site organization are sized for the full eventual plan from day one, which is what lets later phases extend it rather than requiring a new masterplan.
Planning a planning consultancy project?
Talk to the studio directly — the first consultation is free, and you’ll speak with the architect who would run your project.
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