Confidential Masterplan, Istanbul

This master plan will regenerate an entire district of Istanbul to create a high-density, transit-oriented development that can sustainably meet demands for new homes and jobs.

A key challenge of this project was to advise the Urban Design team early when several design options could have been explored. The floor areas and end-uses were not fixed and could significantly change during the master planning concept development.

To understand the development’s resource intensity and get a sense of the scale of the carbon footprint of the master plan, Elementa Consulting built a simplified notional model of an urban block and tested it using Sefaira Concept Analysis software. This software helped focus on significant impacts of a range of design options and easily change assumptions and scenarios – using a dynamic dashboard to present results.

A cost-effective approach to rapid energy, carbon, and water demand simulation was developed to be applied to any large-scale project.