BY: MICHAEL WILLIAMS Does your lawn have dry spots? Does your lawn have areas that remain wet throughout the year? Have you ever walked outside to discover your irrigation system is over-spraying your house, walkways, and patio’s!!? Chances are you’re experiencing a very common occurrence I like to call ‘regular irrigation design.’ You might be…
Most consultants aren’t good at hitting deadlines, or so we’ve been told by numerous architects. Architects are under a lot of pressure to deliver multiple projects to multiple clients simultaneously. There are so many moving parts to wrangle; consultants, engineers, client meetings, cities, codes, stakeholders, etc.⠀ ⠀ The last thing an architect needs is to…
When most people hear the terms “native plants,” “Xerisacpe,” or “drought tolerant” they immediately think of sagebrush. Unfortunately this couldn’t be further from the truth. Native wildflowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees do so much for a landscape. NO MATTER YOUR GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION WHEN YOU ADD NATIVE PLANTS TO YOUR LANDSCAPE: 10. You will save money…
By: Josh Webb Have you ever wondered how Pixar gets all that detail in their landscapes and characters? To the point you can see the fabrics stitching on a characters shirt or the particles of dirt and moss in the ridges of a rock. Well I’m here to “Break the Modeler’s Code.” Side note, there…
By: Carmen Weber When most think of green infrastructure they think of expensive technology that requires city funding for services that often go unnoticed. Cities like Philadelphia have been breaking that mold and the citizens are loving the outcome! Philadelphia, like many cities in America, have a combined sewer and stormwater infrastructure system underground. A…
By: Jesse Buster In a recent ArchDaily article Steven Holl claims “It’s not a great moment, there are a lot of bad architects,” attributing to his successes of award winning projects. This reminds me of the 2014 ArchDaily article where Frank Gehry claimed that Today’s Architecture is (Mostly) “Pure Shit.” He alleges only 2% of…
Project Name: HP Inc. Corvallis, Oregon Campus Location: Corvallis, Oregon Date Designed: Spring 2018 Date Construction Completed: Fall 2018 Cost: $404,000 Size: 179.34 acres Landscape Architect: Will Howard, PLA, ASLA Stack Rock Group, Inc., Boise, Idaho Client: HP Inc. Corvallis, Oregon Campus Consultants: JJ Howard Engineers McMillen Jacobs Associates Oregon State University Heritage Seedlings Managed…
Recently Land8 announced the winners of their inaugural Social Media Awards for Landscape Architecture. To our bewilderment, we were among the winners. Categories were for Landscape Architecture firms (like Stack Rock Group), individual landscape architects, and for Allied Organizations (like the ASLA). Since day one, social media has been a big part of what we…
By: Josh Webb In the office our primary modeling tool is SketchUp. SketchUp is great for quick, easy and efficient 3D Modeling. We are able to keep our polycount low and texture a model within minutes which is great when it comes to working with these large landscape models. Polycount refers to how many faces,…