For Commercial and Public Organisations
I work with clients based in the UK to create welcoming and uplifting everyday escapes; putting the wellbeing of staff and visitors to the forefront while reducing carbon and increasing biodiversity. Is your outside space underused or not creating the right impression to welcome visitors or staff? Do your staff prefer their own home and garden to coming in to the office? We will support you through the design process from working with you to define your brief through all the way through to providing maintenance advice. In this way we can create an outdoor space that encourages staff to enjoy coming into the office and to get out in the daylight for walking meetings, networking events, solitary work outdoors or simply to relax in a calm environment and maybe eat some lunch or have their coffee break. We can advise on planting to benefit staff and visitors through the creation of privacy, absorption of pollution and the injection of beauty into their day. My extensive architectural experience allows me to provide technical advice and coordinate with design teams with ease. My teaching as well as my prior commercial experience means I enjoy presenting to and consulting with stakeholders such as staff or community groups.
I offer a flexible service where the following work phases can be provided separately or all together, depending on requirements.
1/ Concept Phase:
Providing Inspiration from ANALYSIS
I meet with you and work with you to form a brief
I then:
Arrange a survey by others
Carry out a site analysis noting light and wind conditions, views, soil type, existing materials and plants
Create a Concept document that presents the brief and site analysis as well as a scaled Concept plan, along with sections , sketches and moodboard images
Create moodboards to discuss materials, planting & precedents
Meet with you to discuss these
Optional:
Presentation to Stakeholders
Multi disciplinary meetings
Additional drawings/ artwork/ videos
If you are not sure when you might carry out your garden design, you may consider pausing at this stage.
2/ Presentation Plan Phase
Defining the garden
Using sketches and moodboards I explore and refine the concept design to produce a scaled layout plan, showing the kind of materials and planting that will be in each area. Two revisions of the concept design are included in my fee to arrive at this stage.
Optional:
Applications for permissions (planning, coordination with party wall surveyor)
Presentation to Stakeholders
Multi disciplinary meetings
Additional drawings/ artwork/ videos
A landscaper will be able to provide an outline or budget quote from this drawing for cost checking purposes
3/ Construction Phase
DEFINING the detail and quality
Full Heather Specification is provided to suit your preferred contract
CAD layouts are produced showing setting out dimensions for construction as well as any lighting, drainage and irrigation required
Unusual or complex construction details are drawn
Planting Plans and schedules are drawn up showing full Latin plant names, numbers and positions.
Design is sent to tendering contractors
Site monitoring at agreed intervals is provided to ensure the construction is carried out to the agreed design
A maintenance plan is provided by ‘Shoot Gardening’ to help you or others keep your garden looking beautiful *
Optional:
Applications for permissions (Building Control)
Presentation to Stakeholders
Multi disciplinary meetings
*Garden reviews with additional planting advice can also be arranged on an annual basis or one off basis