Our placemaking offers several broad and mutually overarching lifestyle solutions that can be fit-to-purpose for projects regardless of scale and location. These sustainable sites and communities attract people, build culture, nurture social interaction and sustain business and investments. We work on new projects with the same fresh approach as we do for retrofits and adaptive reuse of facilities.
Adjusting to the 'new normal' of social and economic conditions require future-proofing projects. The quest for a good quality of life, enriched sensory experiences and added value underpins these solutions, working mutually well with any of the following.
The quest for adventure and discovery drives an infinite demand for memorable, enchanting experiences. The layout of specific routes for hikers, bikers or for the more passive strollers are tied-in to scenic, ethnobotanic and local wildlife resources of the site, as well as its cultural highlights. Interpretive signage, strategic look-outs, and a variety of crossings by boardwalks and at canopy level make up the trail infrastructure.
Working with topography, existing vegetation and other natural features, levels of ease and difficulty can be creatively designed for the adventure-inclined or more accessible for the mobility-challenged. The experience along circuits and routes offers an enriched sensory and kinetic download.
Whether for urban rooftop gardens, municipal [LGU] community gardens, food forests or indoor kitchen gardens, the possibilities for the 'farm-to-table' ethos of boutique food production is always a great sustainable strategy in reducing food-miles and bypassing far-off, fragile inter-island supply chains.
Edible landscapes need never be scruffy. Our familiarity with a range of perennial food and spice crops that are also ornamental happen to be also decorative plant palettes for multi-purpose, one-of-a-kind edible landscapes.
Many of these happen to be also the lesser known of nature's pharmacy that support the healing arts and the fiber crops known to forgotten local arts and crafts.
Gardening and green infrastructure have a proven psychological and physiological benefits to health. Therapeutic gardens which we can embed in hospitals and health centers provide a much welcome healing for patients for the interaction plants provide to those seeking healing. Meditation gardens offer that calming sensory experience of sights, sounds and scents plus solitude from urban noise.
All this hinges on the quantum physics on how the color green in the visible light spectrum corresponds to nature's healing frequencies [eg. Schumann resonances, Solfeggio tones]
Whether in the built-up city or at the urban fringe, we can creatively work development by conserving as much of nature as it exists. Working with building architects, we can advise on conserving mature tree stands to be retained and repurposing facilities for adaptive reuse.
This strategy of conservation extends to our deep appreciation for protecting natural capital : those ecosystem processes, scenic corridors and the open views of high scenic value, as where land meets water, where nature meets pavement , where high ground meets valleys or other contrasting edge conditions.
With work occupying roughly a third of our daily time, our workspaces need to be as comfortable, pleasant and inspiring as our homes. Whether in business districts, administrative centers or in pocket developments at the urban fringe, the quality of the work environment has proven impacts on staff productivity and business branding.
We seamlessly merge the green technologies we bring indoors with the spaces in and around buildings and the wider public realm, including the commuting experience to and from these workplaces.
Street frontages and promenades can be effectively activated with a lively retail mix of diverse retail establishments that pull in crowds day and night.
The character of the streetscape is set in tone by the careful design of ergonomic site furniture, signage and wayfinding, paving, planting and landscape amenity lighting to create that inviting mood for foot traffic to interact with and linger on. These pedestrianized streets take on a flexible, shared space with a vibrant character of an outdoor impromptu theatre, bazaar, alfresco dining and as throughways.
The points of convergence and divergence are great gathering places in the urban fabric, be they in the public realm or within private developments. The flows and density of foot traffic in these nodes lend themselves well to be designed as animated, engaging spaces for a variety of seasonal events.
The fine balance between the expanse of paving and creatively positioned planting allows for a socially energized environment to enjoy crowds, food, festivals, performances and street shows.
Symbolic landscapes expressed through environmental art remains a deep social aspiration. Working with artists and engineers, we assist in co-creating memorable spaces well remembered for their landmark value. As conversation installations, public art inspires in its humor, commands attention and communicates a desired branding.
Landforms as well set the art in ways that frame the art space and provide physical interaction.
Places need to connect with each other, either by walking, biking or public transport. As all walking journeys begin and end with some form of public transport, providing for the stops for embarking and disembarking are a key infrastructure that needs blending with the public realm and road design.
Walkable districts happen largely because of the great, pleasant connections between destinations. The routes in between, when these are legible, safe, uncluttered and comfortable, are the great assets of the public realm.
The outdoors can be as informative as they are entertaining. Truth is stranger than fiction, and uncovering it in ways that engage all age groups is what makes places interesting. The content we provide in interpretive programmes touch on ethnobotany, nature and its processes, history and culture.
The ways, sites and icons we navigate through have their own unique stories to tell. Uncovering these and interpreting these for users to easily understand makes these destinations memorable, and worth revisiting.
We subscribe to and advocate wholesome healing hinged on the quantum science of green energy. How much green energy a space projects to be perceived imparts not only a perceptible cooling effect, but an actual physical thermal cooling that mitigates the urban 'heat island' effect.
At the center of the visible light spectrum is the color green which vibrates to the equivalent frequency of 7.83Hz, the same heartbeat of the earth. This basic Schumann resonance corresponds to the relaxed alpha brainwaves of calm and meditation, and the frequency of chlorophyll, the fundamental creative force in all living plants. These correspondences are not random coincidences, and exist because of a universal intelligent design all humans are naturally hardwired to.
The color green and the lightwave it emits is scientifically proven to have a host of real, tangible benefits to health and wellbeing in a number of ways well documented in experimental studies. Green takes up more space in the spectrum visible to the human eye, making it the dominant color in the natural world. In this spellbound fascination, we allow greenery to take over our indoors at home and at the workplace, and wrap around our built systems. Failing that, there is always the drive to be around that which evokes that green energy, even for the artificial as a last resort.
In the quantum realm and in metaphysics, the body's seven [7] chakras or energy nodes have a center. That center is the heart chakra
[ anāhata, अनाहत ] which vibrates to the frequency of the color green. It holds that special central place of a vibrant green energy as it does at the center of the rainbow and in the visible light spectrum. This intelligent design is why green spaces hold so much meaning, so much deep symbolism and a powerful subliminal attraction in the quest for quality of life.
The color green dramatically improves task performance requiring memory, cognition, speed and dexterity.
The color green imparts a sense of well-being by centering the self in a balanced state of calm, focus and mindfulness.
Many doctors' offices and hospital receiving rooms are often painted green for its calming effect in relieving patients' anxieties. Some hospitals have therapy gardens that relieve stress, uplift moods and accelerate healing and recuperation.
Whether for individuals or groups, the color green stimulates creativity, lateral thinking and problem-solving.
Because of its calming effect, exposure to the color green has real physiological benefits by lowering the resting heart rate as clinical experiments point.
A low resting heart rate, a measure of health which can be achieved by other lifestyle options [eg. diet, physical exercise, mindful meditation], including constant exposure to the color green.
The color green [and blue] makes perception of surfaces cooler than they actually are. Studies show that thermal perception of spaces can be modulated.
When surfaces are green and blue, people tend to estimate the temperature of spaces to be -14.44 degrees C to -12.22 degrees C [6-10 degress F] cooler than they actually are.
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