DESIGN, PLANTING, BUILD DELIVERY & CARE WOVEN TOGETHER AS ONE CONTINUOUS ACT CARRYING EACH LANDSCAPE FROM FIRST DRAWING INTO LONG-TERM OCCUPATION.
LONDON
+ SURREY
BUILD 2/3
Making, building and installation are delivered and supported by a curated network of craftspeople, fabricators and trades, the studio remains actively involved throughout delivery, maintaining authorship from first drawing to handover and continued care. This close relationship ensures that the intentions established during the design process are carried through into a landscape crafted to endure, adapt and mature over time.
DESIGN + BUILD
PLANTING INSTALL
PROCUREMENT
PHASED DELIVERY
Making, building and installation are delivered and supported by a curated network of craftspeople, fabricators and trades, the studio remains actively involved throughout delivery, maintaining authorship from first drawing to handover and continued care. This close relationship ensures that the intentions established during the design process are carried through into a landscape crafted to endure, adapt and mature over time.
DESIGN + BUILD
PLANTING INSTALL
PROCUREMENT
PHASED DELIVERY
DESIGN 1/3
Every project begins with the site. Context, topography, ecology, architecture and patterns of occupation are observed to understand the conditions that give each landscape its character. Through drawing, technical development, planting systems and material exploration, these observations are translated into elegant, coherent landscapes.
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
SPATIAL PLAN
PLANTING DESIGN
TECHNICAL DRAWING
VALUE ENGINEER
COST CONTROL
CARE PLAN
Every project begins with the site. Context, topography, ecology, architecture and patterns of occupation are observed to understand the conditions that give each landscape its character. Through drawing, technical development, planting systems and material exploration, these observations are translated into elegant, coherent landscapes.
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
SPATIAL PLAN
PLANTING DESIGN
TECHNICAL DRAWING
VALUE ENGINEER
COST CONTROL
CARE PLAN
CARE 3/3
Landscapes are designed to mature over time, with planting systems that favour naturalistic rhythms and reduced maintenance requirements. Ongoing care is supported through seasonal reviews and tailored care plans. Where appropriate, the studio can recommend trusted gardeners and specialist trades who understand and work in accordance with the original design intent.
CARE STRATEGY
PLANT ESTABLISHMENT
STEWARDSHIP
GARDENER GUIDANCE
Landscapes are designed to mature over time, with planting systems that favour naturalistic rhythms and reduced maintenance requirements. Ongoing care is supported through seasonal reviews and tailored care plans. Where appropriate, the studio can recommend trusted gardeners and specialist trades who understand and work in accordance with the original design intent.
CARE STRATEGY
PLANT ESTABLISHMENT
STEWARDSHIP
GARDENER GUIDANCE
WORKS
BEECHWOOD
BEECHWOOD
PHILOSOPHYLandscape is not a fixed object, but a living condition; shaped by weather, growth, occupation and time. Every site possesses an inherent rhythm, formed through geology, ecology, topography and the quiet accumulation of seasons. The role of the studio is not to impose an idea upon the land, but to recognise this underlying order and work in dialogue with it.
Design begins with observation. Every landscape is an act of editing; of addition and subtraction, excavation and assembly, compression and release. It is a continual process of refinement, where each intervention strengthens the character of the whole.
Land is carved and composed. Materials are selected for their honesty and capacity to weather. Planting systems are devised as structure, texture, movement and season, binding architecture and landscape into a single composition. Light, water and time become materials in their own right, continually reshaping the work beyond its construction.
The intention is not simply to create gardens, but to reveal landscapes that feel inevitable; places where architecture finds its footing within the terrain rather than sitting upon it. Where the boundary between the built and the natural becomes increasingly indistinct.
A landscape is realised through occupation. Its character is shaped not only by design, but by the lives it supports; by patterns of movement, cycles of growth and the continual interaction between people, wildlife and the wider ecology of a place. Design establishes the conditions. Life completes the landscape.
The ambition of the studio is to compose enduring relationships between land, architecture and life itself. To create places that are ecologically resilient, spatially coherent and deeply inhabitable; landscapes that belong as much to the living systems that sustain them as to the people who experience them.
Design begins with observation. Every landscape is an act of editing; of addition and subtraction, excavation and assembly, compression and release. It is a continual process of refinement, where each intervention strengthens the character of the whole.
Land is carved and composed. Materials are selected for their honesty and capacity to weather. Planting systems are devised as structure, texture, movement and season, binding architecture and landscape into a single composition. Light, water and time become materials in their own right, continually reshaping the work beyond its construction.
The intention is not simply to create gardens, but to reveal landscapes that feel inevitable; places where architecture finds its footing within the terrain rather than sitting upon it. Where the boundary between the built and the natural becomes increasingly indistinct.
A landscape is realised through occupation. Its character is shaped not only by design, but by the lives it supports; by patterns of movement, cycles of growth and the continual interaction between people, wildlife and the wider ecology of a place. Design establishes the conditions. Life completes the landscape.
The ambition of the studio is to compose enduring relationships between land, architecture and life itself. To create places that are ecologically resilient, spatially coherent and deeply inhabitable; landscapes that belong as much to the living systems that sustain them as to the people who experience them.
WORKS
RIDGEWAY
RIDGEWAY
ARCHIVE
MATERIAL
STUDY
MATERIAL
STUDY
ENQUIRE
The studio undertakes a limited number of commissions each year to maintain close involvement throughout the design and construction process. For enquiries, commissions and collaborations please contact:
The studio was established in 2023 as a practice equally invested in drawing and making, allowing ideas to move seamlessly from concept to completion.
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