October 2011
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April 2011
3 posts
Just finished our latest...
Finished up over off of Meder St extension, and have the photographer coming next Friday. Kevin McElhinney built a beautiful Rumford fireplace and Tom Ralston provided some fantastic concrete finish work. Will update the website when I get better than Iphone photos. The project also included the construction of a barn for a solar electric array, a bunch of dry stacked retaining walls, and a...
August 2010
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May 2009
1 post
The Bicycle Trip
I am very excited to be working with Berri Michel, a true visionary and the owner of the Bicycle Trip bicycle shop on the East side of Santa Cruz. The Bicycle Trip has recently decided to expand and is moving to a larger building down the street on Soquel Avenue, with an adjacent lot, which we are intending to develop into a bicycle and pedestrian friendly outdoor gathering space. Should be...
April 2009
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February 2009
2 posts
Latest project February 2, 2009
Last month we finished or latest project, one that we began designing about this time last year, and one that SLLA also built, acting as the contractor for the job.
One of the very interesting things that we did was introduced permeable pavers for the 3500 square foot entry circle that made up the focus of the landscape design. The site lies within the ecologically sensitive Moore Creek...
June 2008
1 post
June 14, 2008
We have been recently begun specifying irrigation controllers which adjust watering schedules based on evapotranspiration data. These clocks can significantly reduce water consumption, while actually increasing landscape health (by limiting over watering).
In January, we installed an ET control system for a client in order to achieve some water savings. We thought that we could achieve a pay...
February 2008
1 post
December 2007
1 post
December 19
Advantex Wastewater Treatment Recently, I have been working with Andrew Brownstone, at Biosphere Consulting, a professional geologist about the prospect of using treated household wastewater for subsurface irrigation in the landscape. The system which he frequently installs treats household wastewater so effectively, that it is considered my many municipalities to be usable as an irrigation...
November 2007
3 posts
November 30, 2007
The website is now looking very tight! The whole website was designed and built by my brother-in-law Jay Robinson, an industrial designer, who has a great gift for all facets of design. I am anxiously waiting to see, what he, and his wonderful wife Kendra, who is quite a designer as well, will come up with next as they steer their design firm, based in Chicago, in new directions. In the new...
Projects
November 8 We are currently working on the Project Gallery and it will be coming soon!
Full Circle
November 6, 2007
After starting and operating my practice in the bottom of the Napa Valley for the past 7 years, my family and I have decided to relocate to Santa Cruz. I am very excted about operating as a landscape architect in the place where I formulated many of my progressive notions of landscape as an Environmental Studies student at the University of California in Santa Cruz. As an...