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Institutional · 5 min read
Planning a campus in phases without disrupting daily use
Most institutional clients build their vision in stages, not all at once. The masterplan has to anticipate that from day one, or every later phase compromises the one before it.
An education trust rarely funds a full campus vision in a single phase. What they can do is commit to a first building that has to work completely on its own — and that's the trap: a first phase designed only for itself usually blocks the second one from sitting well beside it.
The fix is to masterplan at full-campus scale before drawing phase one, even though only phase one will be built for years. Circulation spines, utility runs, and open space are sized for the eventual whole campus, then phase one is simply the first slice built along that plan.
On Tricity Institute of Technology, that discipline meant phase one opened in 2018 already sited so that phases two and three extend the same spine rather than requiring a second masterplan or compromising a courtyard already in daily use by students.