Landscape
Landscape architecture is the art of bringing together the segregated elements of a city into a coherent setting, like scenography. It is more than vegetation - it is about movement, and how a space and a city is precepted by inhabitants. Landscape architecture is also essential in efforts to mitigate extreme weather due to climate change. Heat island and flash flooding are many cities’ reality, making landscape architecture one of the most essential tools for the city to mitigate and adapt climate change.
Democratic spaces
Outdoor spaces are where most people have their encounters with architecture and each other. An essential part of a landscape architect’s job is to design these spaces; be it a square, a street or the space in front of a building. Landscape architects create the democratic spaces where one can enjoy without having to buy anything. We work with environmental psychology through studying the relationship between an environment and how that environment affects people through the space layout and details such as furniture, vegetation, and materials. Landscape architecture sets the mood for outdoor spaces.
Infrastructure for the blue, the green and people
The mission is to create holistic settings for all form of life – people and nature. Landscape architecture encompass the tools for creating a more sustainable and biodiverse future. Our approach to landscape architecture is to work from the existing blue and green components, and we do this for all the scales that we work with, from city to street corner. We rehabilitate cities through these elements, such as releasing once piped up streams and reestablishing vegetation. Thinking seasonal is always an important part of our design.
Values
We work from the premise of respecting the present and the past, this is part of working with a long-term perspective. Shaping landscape that will last for many years to come is sustainable practice, this requires that we are good observers and understanding the context of a project. What qualities exist? What needs more nurturing? What needs to be repaired? Each project has something special that we want to enhance and work with in our designs. Most importantly, we are design space for people to use thus is participation an important activity and tool that we use to enhance our designs.