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34 Degrees Design
Institutional & systems planning

Federal Campus Development Frameworks

United States

A long-range institutional planning and urban development framework for a large-scale federal campus, integrating land use, movement, infrastructure, landscape and public realm within a highly complex operational environment.

Context

Contributed to the preparation of a long-range institutional planning and urban development framework for a large-scale federal campus in the United States. The project required the integration of land use, movement systems, infrastructure, landscape, public realm and future development planning within a highly complex operational environment.

The planning process involved responding to fragmented development patterns, ageing facilities, operational constraints, and long-term growth and climatic pressures, while establishing a more coherent spatial structure and development vision for the broader campus.

The client is undisclosed due to government classification protocols.

Illustrative plan for the twenty-year masterplan — land-use districts, movement network and landscape structure

Role & contribution

Led the development of the overarching spatial framework, working across multidisciplinary planning, engineering, infrastructure and operational teams to synthesise technical and spatial inputs into a coordinated long-term framework.

Produced analytical diagrams, spatial frameworks, urban design graphics and presentation material used to communicate complex planning systems and future development scenarios to stakeholders and decision-makers.

  • District and land-use planning
  • Movement and circulation systems
  • Redevelopment opportunities
  • Streetscape and public realm frameworks
  • Landscape structure planning
  • Institutional mixed-use integration
  • Long-range development and implementation strategies

Outcome

The framework established a coordinated long-term vision for future growth, redevelopment, mobility and land-use integration across the campus environment — improved spatial coherence, clearer development structure, strengthened movement hierarchy, enhanced public realm integration, strengthened access control and improved safety, and more coordinated long-term planning outcomes.

The project reinforced the importance of working across multiple scales simultaneously, from regional systems and district planning through to detailed urban design and implementation-oriented spatial frameworks.

Drawings & analysis

  • Land-use and urban design regulating plan — development parcels, street types and public realm interventions

  • Botanical and xeriscaping landscape standards — specified planting, named by species

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