Master Plan

✦ Master Planning at Two Scales

Master planning is the art that can make a luxury development look either intentional or incidental. The Century Astoria master plan Jakkur works on two levels at the same time and it is important for you to understand both of them to get a real feel for the project. On a purely township angle alone, the Century Immencity 52 acre master plan brings together Grade A office towers, an integrated metro station, high-street retail, fine-dining venues, hospitality and curated cultural aspects - all of them around a central zone with lots of landscaped open space. The residential zone will feel protected but yet close to the very core, and the 6.075 acre Century Astoria parcel comes with five towers that are planned in a way for you to get great privacy, skyline views and ventilation across the floor plates.

It is the relationship between these two scales that makes this project different from peer launches from an engineering decision standpoint. Most of the mixed-use developments in Bangalore are residential clusters with token retail on the periphery. In the Century Astoria master plan Jakkur that hierarchy is turned on its head. Residential is just one small part of a larger urban district, which means the daily lifestyle radius for residents expands across the township and does not stop at the gate. You won’t even need a car to get to work, go to dinner, see a gallery opening or even your yoga class. This is the kind of planning and thought process that most North Bangalore new launches are yet to learn to deliver on a scale of this nature.

✦ Tower Layout and Site Configuration

The Century Astoria site layout 5 towers configuration means each block has a very clear and purposeful distance between. The Century Astoria tower layout plan also makes sure to avoid a wall-to-wall density that you see in most mass luxury projects in Bengaluru. Here, you have roughly 75% of the residential parcel assigned for landscaped open space. Each tower has a two-level basement for parking and utilities, a ground floor and 15 or 16 floors of residences, and terrace amenities on a podium between the towers' bases. The strategic spacing of towers serves three structural purposes: to project the views of each residence, make sure of cross-ventilation across floor plates and to guarantee that no flat faces straight into a neighbor’s living room.

Each tower has four high-speed lifts and this is a surprisingly generous ratio of residents to lifts for this density. Weekend peak demand for lifts never produces the lift queues mass-luxury developments end up facing and tolerating usually, because there is 15 to 16 floors and less than 70 units per tower. This is one of the planning details that define the Century Astoria master plan Jakkur philosophy – capacity oversizing in the common infrastructure results in measurable improvements in daily lifestyle quality.

✦ The Mixed-Use Township Context

The Century Immencity mixed use township master plan Bangalore is something that is quite rare even for a city as rich as this. The developer is mixing residential, commercial, retail, hospitality and cultural elements on 52 acres of a single land parcel – a planning brief that very few Bangalore developers have proven they can deliver at this scale. The township’s office park is coming up as a standalone section with three basement floors and ground plus 12 floors of grade A commercial space aimed at global capability centres and senior corporate tenants. The retail zone is sure to be comprised of high street shopping, fine dining, café culture and convenience retail along a promenade with full pedestrian priority.

The cultural programming is integrated with the commercial and residential aspects. The Century Astoria master plan includes gallery and exhibition spaces, art installations throughout the township, an open-air amphitheatre, and collaboration zones that serve as informal third spaces between the office buildings and the residential parcel. The design intent overall is to compress what a typical North Bangalore HNI household does over a 15 km radius into a single 52 acre footprint.

✦ The Masterplan PDF and What It Contains

The Century Immencity township masterplan PDF, released during the pre-launch window via the Expression-of-Interest portal, has all the details of the development laid out. The document encompasses the office park building, the retail high street layout, the metro station integration point, the central park and water bodies, the cultural zones, the vehicular circulation strategy with multiple entry and exit points and the green buffer zones separating the residential parcel from the commercial blocks. If you are seriously exploring the value of buying a home here, you should ask for this document very early on in the evaluation process to fully understand the kind of commitment you are about to make and the value adds you can get with this.

✦ Master Plan Highlights

• 52-acre integrated mixed-use township

• 6.075-acre residential parcel protected at the core

• Five luxury residential towers with deliberate separation

• Approximately 75% landscaped open space within the residential parcel

• Integrated metro station planned within the township

• Multiple entry and exit points for organised traffic flow

• Green buffers and water feature integration across the development