Between Systems & Ground
Linking regional insight to project-scale action.
We are designers from interdisciplinary backgrounds focused on realizing work in the built environment that is beautiful, thoughtful, resilient, and constructable. Our clients and partners share our vision for building a better environment, where people have a deeper connection to the natural systems that sustain us.
When Ian McHarg published his seminal work “Design with Nature,” in 1969, he offered two guiding figures for practice: the Environmentalist, who reads the ground, and the Astronaut, who sees the whole Earth. Our practice operates as a third category: the Technologist, interpolating between both scales, connecting the quantitative to the qualitative, while making the design process more intelligent.
We believe analysis should describe what could be, not just what is. The challenges we face as a society are more complex than any single discipline or dataset, our aim is to close the gap in any project phase. Our work helps identify where a site should be located, outline scenarios for how it could be developed, measure impacts on surrounding systems or other critical metrics, and pinpoint optimizations that make delivery more feasible.
Project Driven Partnership
Support for Scoped Deliverables
Our Role: Think of us as an embedded specialist, focused on quality, precision, and integration. We're happy to design, or follow the lead.
What We Provide: We help deliver project-based deliverables using advanced techniques. Ideal when your team wants to leverage technology, animation, GIS, or 3D modeling but doesn't have the in-house capacity or time to do so.
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How We Work Together
Our role flexes to fit the project. We are strong authors and even stronger collaborators, building the connective tissue between ideas, data, and delivery. Our work with clients and project partners fits into two primary models which support project delivery or strengthen your internal systems.