Reading a Site Before Drawing a Line
Topography, hydrology, and history as the real starting point of design
Every site carries a history in its topography: old drainage patterns, soil compacted by a use that ended decades ago, trees that reveal where water used to collect. Before any plan gets drawn, we spend time reading what's already there: contour surveys, soil tests, existing vegetation, and the small clues a site gives up only to people willing to walk it slowly and repeatedly. The projects that perform best over time are the ones where the design followed the site's own logic instead of overriding it.
