Introducing green spaces to urban and suburban environments can be done overtly with parks, gardens, and nature walks. By combining the natural world with our built environment, landscape architects deliver places where we can walk among natural features that cultivate a connection to the environment. However, landscape architects can move beyond this by helping to design cohesive green spaces that emulate being in nature. Most city planning accounts for including trees, shrubbery, and other small tokens of nature in their master plans by design. This is where landscape architects come into play. However, it can be difficult to connect with nature and reap its many benefits when you live in urban environments where greenery can be sparse. Engaging in opportunities to be outside can help improve people’s physic al and mental health, including cognitive function, brain activity, blood pressure regulation, and disordered sleeping. Research shows that spending even a small amount of time in nature daily improves happiness and mood. There are endless applications for landscape architecture, especially as we move towards building a cleaner, greener future alongside nature. Overall, their services are important to nearly every civil design project.
You can see landscape architects’ influence in shopping malls, museums, schools, and universities, where their work extends past site design and into master planning. These projects can also be collaborations with existing recreational spaces like playgrounds and golf courses to make them more ecologically friendly, functional, and beautiful.
Landscape architecture projects can be a nature trail, a public garden, or working with a city to develop a communal greenspace. Landscape architecture uses art, design, and science to blend these natural features with the built environment. Buildings, bridges, transportation-even farmlands count as the built environment! That’s because we cultivate farmlands to service human needs, which means they are not naturally occurring.Ĭonversely, the natural environment is what occurs naturally in the world around us, like bodies of water, soils, rocks, native wildlife, and other natural resources. If you’re unfamiliar with architecture, you may wonder– what is the built environment? That would be anything human-made. In short, it is a profession involving the planning, design, management, and cultivation of natural environments that complement the built environment. The very same can be said of landscape architecture! Though many people mistake it for gardening or land stewardship, landscape architecture is much more complex. Architecture is known for its unique stylistic influences and how it serves communities and cultures through design. When many people think of architecture, they often think of significant, interesting buildings with unique designs.
Landscape Architecture is a key civil design service within our firm, but the field itself can be a little obscure.
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