Urban planning and landscape

Urban planning

The core of the service is a masterplan as a development concept for the territory: the distribution of uses, the placement of buildings, the street network, public spaces and planting. It also covers pre-design proposals for a site — an analysis of planning constraints, development options and a master plan layout — and an urban planning calculation: what can be built on a site, and how much. AIMM works with sites ranging from a block of a few hectares to a 100-hectare industrial zone being turned into an urban district. Its projects include a 62.5-hectare cottage town near Kyiv, a 44.9-hectare private complex on the Atlantic coast and CentralPark in Uzhhorod, a 13.4-hectare neighbourhood on the Uzh River where green areas and promenades take up 60% of the site. More on the urban planning page.

Landscape architecture and site improvement

Site improvement is a separate design section: driveways and pedestrian routes, courtyard facilities, surfacing, drainage and planting. AIMM designs residential courtyards, squares and pedestrian routes, waterfronts and recreational areas, planting and compensatory planting. More on the landscape architecture page.

Why design the site and the buildings together

When one team designs the site, the buildings and the landscape, the placement of volumes, podium levels, entrances and drainage points are coordinated at once rather than reworked at the construction documentation stage.