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LANDSCAPE APPROACH
What happens when design starts by listening to the landscape?
LISTENING AS DESIGN METHOD
Landscape is understood as an active system of ecological, spatial, and cultural processes that shape how territories perform over time.
The approach is grounded in listening and observation, used as analytical tools to inform spatial decisions—rather than representational gestures.
Design begins with identifying what is present, what is missing, and what has been disrupted.
Landscape systems already operate continuously—managing water, supporting ecosystems, regulating environmental processes—often across infrastructural edges and transitional spaces.
Their performance is assessed before intervention.
COMMUNICATION SHAPE CONNECTION.
CONNECTION DRIVES CHANGE.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO WORK WITH LANDSCAPE TODAY?
For us, landscape is not an image or a decorative layer.
It is a living system shaped by time, use, environmental limits, and accumulated decisions.
Working with landscape means engaging with complexity rather than simplifying it.
WHY START FROM OBSERVATION RATHER THAN FORM?
Because landscapes already contain information.
Soils, water, vegetation, topography, and patterns of use reveal balances, pressures, and thresholds.
Observation is not a preliminary step — it is a design tool.
It allows us to understand what can be transformed, what must be protected, and where intervention is meaningful.
HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND LANDSCAPE AS A SYSTEM?
We approach landscape as a system composed of:
- ecological processes
- spatial structures
- human use and management over time.
These elements are inseparable.
Designing landscape means working on their relationships, not on isolated components.
WHAT ROLE DOES TIME PLAY IN OUR PROJECTS?
Time is a core design material.
- Landscapes evolve
- Programs changes
- Environmental conditions shift.
Our approach focuses on creating frameworks that remain valid over time, rather than fixed forms that quickly become obsolete.
HOW DO WE WORK ACROSS SCALES?
Landscape does not operate at a single scale.
Decisions made at the territorial level affect site-specific outcomes and vice versa.
We work across scales — from territorial frameworks to site design — ensuring continuity between strategic vision and concrete implementation.
HOW DO WE RELATE TO OTHER DISCIPLINES?
Landscape is inherently interdisciplinary.
We work in close dialogue with:
- architects
- planners
- engineers
- environmental and health specialists.
Our role is often to mediate, align, and structure complex inputs through a shared spatial and environmental logic.
WHAT IS THE AIM OF THIS APPROACH?
Not to control landscapes, but to work with their dynamics.
Not to impose forms, but to create conditions for durability, adaptability and care.
We design landscapes that:
- support long-term use
- remain meaningful as conditions evolve
- contribute to environmental and human well-being.
WHY DOES THIS MATTER FOR PROJECTS?
Because landscapes are not neutral.
They influence health, climate performance, spatial quality, and long-term resilience.
Approaching landscape as a strategic system allows projects to remain coherent, responsible and effective over time.
Landscape approach is not a style.
It is a way of thinking, observing and acting within complex environments.
It guides how we ask questions, make decisions and shape long-term transformation.
THE LANDSCAPE AS A DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORK, NOT A REPRESENTATIONAL TOOL.
WHEN LANDSCAPE IS A STRATEGIC QUESTION
If your project involves complexity, long timeframes, or fragile environmental systems, let’s talk.