New York, NY, USA
Our internationally recognized design studio is dedicated to exploring the beneficial role nature can play in the built environment. Humanism and the concepts defined by biophilia are inspirations in helping us create settings that assist in the wellbeing of individuals and communities. We believe that design can help restore, protect and elevate our individual and collective experience and advance the stewardship of our shared natural and cultural resources.
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Uniting conceptual ideas to carefully crafted details, incorporating new technologies while incorporating relevant traditional methods, we are committed to integrating our built environment and nature. We utilize the systems that support a sustainable and healthy life, creating a positive impact for present and future generations.
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The redesign of the Keene State College Natural Science Center provided an opportunity to create a 9,000 square foot courtyard that is a relaxing and inspiring setting and integrate it into the school’s curriculum. The design captures the essential character of the New Hampshire landscape as a model outdoor field laboratory. Photo: Dirtworks Landscape Architecture P.C
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150 Charles creates a vision of weaving new development into the natural and historic environment of the West Village. Architecture and landscape are crafted to evoke a scale and texture characteristic of the neighborhood. The building, a careful composition of stacked volumes, incorporates an abandoned warehouse façade and creates a vibrant streetscape, preserving the neighborhood scale and connections to its historic past.
Through a relationship with Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy (JBRPC), Dirtworks Landscape Architecture assembled a team of professionals to develop and engineer a sustainable living shoreline, restoring almost nine acres and 2,600 linear feet of coastal salt marsh habitat. This action improves resiliency for existing wetlands, shorelines, and other sensitive habitat areas, while also restoring and establishing coastal salt marshes.
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Camphill is an innovative model of community-based elder care that creates an open and welcoming environment desirable to a wide community of elders and their families. Following an interactive dialogue with residents of a nearby Camphill Village, Dirtworks developed a site plan strategy to minimize site disturbance, capture the great views of the Hudson Valley landscape, and provide a framework for future expansion.
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Named after the architectural focal point of the historic neighborhood, the Flatiron Institute is dedicated to being thought leaders in the fields of mathematics, astrophysics and biochemistry. The garden expands the Center’s world-class programs into a vibrant landscape, positioning nature as an essential partner in interdisciplinary discussions.
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The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is a research institute devoted to exploring fundamental knowledge in mathematics and theoretical physics. The Center was created to provide an environment where researchers could exchange ideas and work across disciplines. The landscape furthers this mission and deepens the appreciation of the Center’s work within the larger University community by providing settings for interdisciplinary collaboration
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By introducing dunes and dynamic topography that guide stormwater through the site and lifting the house 12’ above sea level, Resilient Dunescape responds to the inevitability of sea level rise by utilizing natural processes as inspiration to embrace flooding in the design. The plant palette includes native and adaptive plant species which tolerate a range of soil, light, and microclimatic conditions.
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