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As business and leisure become more intertwined,
today’s lifestyle developments, which include hotels, must
accommodate the desires and needs of a community in its overlapping
engagements. We are compelled to provide immediacy and adjacency
to more things and to more people - work, relax, gather, entertain
the family, eat, drink and shop. It is crucial that our planning
take into account this diversity of lifestyle concepts in development.
Therefore, it is crucial to the Master Plan Concept process to relate
the physical planning to the notion of a lifestyle-oriented concept.
At the heart of this approach is the intention
to provide a unique design process that addresses memorable and
distinctive life patterns and experience. We recognize four essential
life patterns of fulfilling lives- Live, Work, Play and Communicate,
which form the priority basis for the development objectives and
phasing strategies for the particular development.
We must be able to answer the age-old question:
What do people want? We find that people are desirous of the same
quality of product and place that others all over the world are
desirous of. However, they do not want to have to look for this
away from home but rather, right at home.
We must recognize the evolving context of what
people want, such as IT technology. IT technology has come to the
forefront of planning and entertainment expectations, and is as
important to people as their access to a cricket field, tennis court
or pool.
What we seek to deliver in development are lifestyle
experiences where “Lifestyle living is a want and is more
than a need”.
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