MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT WITH STAKEHOLDERS
We continually aspire to make all of our work memorable, experiential, and effective. We approach each landscape as a unique opportunity with a specific purpose, geography, climate, ecology, and culture. As such, it is critical to us that the design process begins by meeting with project stakeholders, asking questions, and listening to our clients and the future users to inform landscape design from its inception.
SITE VISITS
Given the spatial and temporal nature of landscape, we believe it is essential to visit each project site in person to inform the landscape design. Visiting the site early in the design process provides an important opportunity to understand scale, connections, and dynamic site aspects such as light, climate and, of course, culture.
THE STUDIO
The PWP studio is located in Berkeley, California on the San Francisco Bay. As a multi-generational firm, we benefit from partners with over 60 years of built landscape experience and a shared collective of diverse backgrounds, ages, interests, and skillsets.
Since our founding and by design, we maintain a controlled studio size of around 40 individuals who work together in a shared central studio space.
Our intimate studio allows us to maintain a high-level of quality throughout all of our work and to focus closely on our projects, clients and collaborators.
Throughout the design process, project teams collaborate both virtually and in person, using large-format drawings, precedent photography, physical and digital study models, as well as VR.
While we care deeply about ‘big ideas’ and landscape systems, we are also committed to achieving human-scale through intimate, detailed design. We are fortunate to have an extensive materials library within the studio and frequently use physical samples as part of the design process.
We often construct simple 1:1 scale physical mock-ups in-house with chalk, cardboard, and paper during the design development process in our studio to hone the design of custom furniture, paving, and other detail design elements.
