Armstrong

In planning for a new development so close to large, well established communities, it was vital to start with the basics, get into the streets and get down to the grass-roots.

We studied the structure of Geelong and Torquay; the format of local streets and how open spaces were used. We examined the shopping strips, the parks and the streetscapes and importantly, we asked the locals what worked and what didn’t.

We sat down in vision workshops with consortium development managers to the marketing team and invited council officers, heritage officers, government agencies and civil engineers to come and talk with us, to give us their ideas and their apprehensions. With every meeting, we slowly but surely teased out the true vision for Armstrong Creek West.

With the objectives in place we set to work with pencil and paper, preparing iteration after iteration of the plan and in true Mesh fashion, dived deep down to the local street network to test our higher order, structural plans. We consulted, we tweaked and all the time we drilled down on the details for the Armstrong master plan and their planning permit application.

By engaging with the community, developers, Council and government from the very beginning, the Mesh method allowed the Armstrong Creek West development to successfully evolve from an idea to a reality. It’s the holistic, integrated approach that allows us to see the bigger picture while appreciating and understanding the details that create it; from concept to completion.