St. Helena’s Catholic Church and School, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

In an effort to improve safety, function, and aesthetics, the front parking lot of the school and church was redesigned. This collaborative effort optimized circulation patterns, provide safe play and access for students and visitors, explored alternative storm water management practices, and provided a sense of identity with a native planting theme along its major thoroughfare.

New Hope-Solebury Lower Elementary School, New Hope, Pennsylvania

The Lower Elementary School campus master plan features theme gardens, habitat restoration, athletic fields, vehicular circulation for bus and car pickup, and four-season plantings. Workshops with students, teachers and administrators led to the design and install of a Friendship Reading Garden that provided lunch, classroom and social space featuring a helix-shaped arbor, geometrical shapes for seating, gravel terrace, and native school yard habitat.

Delaware Valley University, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Visioning and detailed design was conducted for the main campus at Delaware Valley University. Projects included the student center courtyard, rain gardens, vernal pools, bioswales, streetscapes and the arboretum learning gardens that utilized native and ornamental plantings to establish a new character and direction for the University landscape.

Central Park Sensory Trail, Doylestown Township, Pennsylvania

Visioning and preparation of a 10-year campus master plan on a 44 acre property that embraces the values of the Friends community, the native woodland setting and education. The plan provided sensitive placement of nature trails, outdoor classrooms, and activities courtyards, athletic amenities, and a strengthened connections between students, teachers, parents, learning and nature.

Buckingham Friends School, Lahaska, Pennsylvania

Visioning and preparation of a 10-year campus master plan on a 44 acre property that embraces the values of the Friends community, the native woodland setting and education. The plan provided sensitive placement of nature trails, outdoor classrooms, and activities courtyards, athletic amenities, and a strengthened connections between students, teachers, parents, learning and nature.