Master plans

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Master plans in Costa Rica

More than 120 hectares planned for developers, hotels, universities, schools and municipalities. We work from the scale of the whole site and the territory down to the detail, in stages that can be financed and built. For municipalities and institutions, see public space design.

Tourism Development in Tres Ríos, climbing wall and circular lookout on slender columns — Planes Maestros

Tourism Development in Tres Ríos

Tourism Development in Sarapiquí, render of the multipurpose building facing the navigable lake, ecological tourism, Heredia — Planes Maestros

Tourism Development in Sarapiquí

Centro Cívico Talca, render of the block interior opened to the city beside the old prison building, Talca — Espacio público, deportivo e institucional

Centro Cívico Talca, civic center

Plan de Renovación Barrio La California, neighborhood plan with the proposed pedestrian axis highlighted — Planes Maestros

Plan de Renovación Barrio La California, urban renewal plan

Plan de Renovación de Salitral, plan of the linear district between mountains with the town center and the spring, Santa Ana — Planes Maestros

Plan de Renovación de Salitral, urban renewal plan

Estación del ferrocarril de Turrialba, aerial view of the station in the urban grid of the center, Cartago — Planes Maestros

Plan de Renovación de Turrialba, urban renewal plan

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How we think about it

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Building on what exists

We start from what the territory already has, with data from the Territorial Observatory and a reading of the country’s 492 districts.

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Shared before individual

Streets, squares and green areas organize the plan before the lots do. That is what turns a development into a city.

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Do more with fewer elements

Phases that work on their own and add up to the whole, with the investment for each stage estimated from the start.

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The building ten years on

A master plan is a long-term agreement. We leave clear rules so that the whole stays coherent when the teams change.

From territory to detail

We review the site and the building in all their dimensions before proposing. We return to that reading at every stage of the project.

The context

PhysicalEcology, climate, soil and energy
UrbanInfrastructure, mobility, land use and urban image
SocialCommunity, culture, economy, politics and regulations

The building

SpaceRelationships, organization, hierarchy and proportion
FormVolume, composition and architectural system
FunctionProgram, circulation, access and building services
TectonicsConstruction system, materials and building time
PerceptionLight, color, texture, views, air and scents

Featured projects

Tourism development in Tres Ríos, Cartago, Costa Rica, a project by LDB Arquitectura, image 7

Tourism Development in Tres RíosSite plan for a 72,000 m² tourism development

Urban view of the Barrio Escalante renewal plan in San José.

Neighborhood Renewal PlansLa California, Salitral, Turrialba, Barrio Escalante and Los Yoses, worked at the scale of the neighborhood rather than the lot

Rendering of the Civic Center in Talca with a central plaza, public buildings and a direct connection to the Alameda.

Talca Civic Center, ChileThe same scale of work outside Costa Rica

View of an Urban Palette in San José, an inclusive public space with furniture, vegetation and safe areas for children.

Urban Palettes in Distrito HospitalUrban interventions for an entire district of San José

We support the whole process with one team. Design, permits, costs and construction inspection, so that what was designed gets built.