groundcondition

I am an ecological designer, which brings together the science of ecology with the dynamic creative processes of design . My goal is to bring inspiration and new concepts based on living systems to the fields of landscape architecture, urbanism, and industrial design. My practice is research based, aesthetically oriented, and intellectually driven. In this most challenging of times I hope to bring my energy and experience to projects that will build a vital, green, and inviting future.

We have been working for a while on an artificial beach near the city of Utrecht, on the edge of a large lake created by sand mining. These collages are meant to capture the atmosphere of the design we propose. Large oval shaped mounded dunes partially covered with grasses, worn wooden poles anchoring the hills […]

It is becoming clear to me that representation is a design method unto itself. More than just describing how a project will look, or its atmosphere, being able to manifest a design through constructed images lets clients see, react, feel, and make decisions about a design. In this case our client did not know exactly […]

I recently had the joy of spending two weeks in a tiny stone house in the hills near Cortona. Every moring my eyes would feast on the exuberant beauty of this landscape. From the point of view of a landscape designer, all the important elements seem to be poised in remarkable balance- agriculture alongside urbanism […]