Emphasizing appropriate responses to project requirements and with sensitivity to the site context, SLA creates solutions that place the Client’s needs and capabilities at the core of the decision-making and design process. The resulting solutions express the best possible combination of site conditions, program requirements, Client needs, historical and cultural context, consultant inputs and construction technologies.
Focused on the opportunistic relationships between planning and landscape architecture, SLA pursues landscape design solutions expressive of the urban, suburban and ex-urban contexts within which our Client’s projects are realized. SLA’s design process seeks to identify meaningful historical and cultural elements of a site and the associated program and express these characteristics in creative solutions sympathetic to contemporary needs and processes.
Today more than ever, Globalization represents both a challenge and an opportunity for those whose business is development. As another 1 billion world people move towards living and working in urban settlements, the earth’s resources must be more efficiently used. The adherence to sustainability must embrace the new entrants to material prosperity while at the same time conserving the resources required for this global transformation. The lessons of post war development can be transferred to these new urbanites and their settlements in a manner that is mutually beneficial and enriching.