Landscape Architecture · Portland & Sapporo
Ground that works as hard as the buildings on it.
We design public landscapes that manage stormwater, cool their neighborhoods, and hold up to daily use — parks, campuses, wetlands, and the leftover terrain in between.
Selected Work
Three projects, three kinds of ground
Approach
We start with the water, then the soil, then the plan.
Every site drains somewhere. Before we draw a single path, we map where the water wants to go and design the landscape to slow it, clean it, and put it to work. Soil comes second — most of our budgets go underground, where nobody photographs them but everything depends on them.
The visible design — the terraces, the groves, the long benches — is the last ten percent. It is also the part people fall in love with, so we take it just as seriously.
14Mgallons of stormwater detained annually across built work
96%of specified plantings surviving past year three
11municipal clients with repeat commissions
2studios — Portland and Sapporo — one shared model library