RECREATION DEVELOPMENT

Park and playground design, school, college and institutional design requires specialized knowledge of the specific human needs. How one pursues the activity of regenerating his spirit and his mind is a prime concen of the Landscape Architect in creating imaginative site solutions. The elements the designer uses are topography, water, plant material and architecture. The Landscape Architect's skill in arranging physical elements in a functional and aesthetic manner is demonstrated by the degree of enrichment one receives as a participant in these activities.

Commercial and industrial properties require proper site planning to insure an overall functional operation and aesthetic setting for the projects' structures. Location, exposure, servicability, identity and accessibility are common problems, with economic viability as the common objective. Industrial properties require the proper site analysis of utilites and transit systems necessary to their functioning successfully while maintaining a visually attractive public image. This firm offers complete services in site planning and landscaping for all types of business and industrial property.

SUBDIVISION & MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

A planned residential environment implies the studied relationship of man's architecture in conjunction with all systems operating within his habitat-ecological systems, socio-economic system, utility systems, circulation systems, etc. The complexity of these relationships requires coordinated expertise of the landscape architect, the architect, the engineer, the ecologist, the sociologist, and the economist. The firm has attempted to utilize all available resources in the master planning and land planning for new towns, planned unit developments, subdivisions, golf course subdivisions, apartments, townhouses and mobile home parks.

Comprehensive Planning - perhaps the most complex of all planning activities requires a working knowledge of municipal government and civic economics, as well as expertise in land planning and design. The planning service must clarify alternatives and describe strategies to insure optimum growth relationships. The services offered by this firm include general planning and detailed urban design studies from conception through specifications, construction drawings and supervision of construction.
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