Residential Design

Residential landscape architecture is an extension of your home, and the possibilities available to increase the spaces for you and your guests to enjoy are limited by only your imagination. Your landscape architect can translate your ideas into entertaining and living areas that integrate purpose and function, such as outdoor fireplaces, kitchens, pools, patios and hot tubs. Additional residential landscape options may address aesthetics or maintenance solutions, such as driveways, lighting and irrigation systems.

Commercial Design

Commercial landscape design can be a powerful branding or marketing tool for your business. Professional and appealing exterior landscapes for hotels, apartment complexes, office buildings, hospitals and other commercial settings send an important message to potential customers and employees. An attractive exterior conveys pride in the company, attention to detail and reassurance that the same care or attention will be provided to the client. It may also reinforce core values of environmental stewardship.  

Parks and Recreation

Parks and recreation landscape design relies on landscape architecture to provide a space that is functional and fun. Playgrounds, golf courses, sports fields and other recreational areas may require a landscape architect to incorporate lighting for safety reasons or stormwater management solutions. Placement of walkways and adequate signage in relation to the location of concessions and restroom facilities can all be properly addressed by a professional landscape architect in the planning phase.

Bioretention/Rain Garden Design

Bioretention areas and rain gardens are Low Impact Development (LID) design options for managing stormwater runoff. Bioretention facilities are engineered to treat a specific amount of stormwater, and they are commonly found on commercial property and public right of way areas. On the surface, rain gardens feature aesthetically pleasing landscape architecture designs, but underneath a number of processes work to improve stormwater quality, reduce runoff volumes and generally facilitate the infiltration of cleaned water.

Master Planning

A master plan in landscape design is a long-range plan that unifies multiple goals and visions, possibly even multiple projects. By taking into account such elements as future use, population growth and traffic flow, a master plan provides a solid approach to analysis, best practices and action. Master planning the landscape architecture of any development is critical to ensure that the project is driven to successful completion and is well-equipped to handle future growth.

Low Impact Development

Low Impact Development (LID) is an exceptionally effective landscape architecture design approach that utilizes natural processes as much as possible to manage stormwater runoff. Cost-effective strategies such as integrating green space, native landscaping and natural hydrologic functions result in less runoff being generated from developed land. LID processes yield cleaner bodies of water, improved aesthetics from more green space and overall better quality of life by reducing the impact of development.