Landscape Architecture at Board & Vellum

We live in and love the Pacific Northwest; as residents and designers, we’re fundamentally invested in the future of our communities.

We love designing beautiful, useful outdoor spaces, both public and private, adding materially to our cultural fabric by creating real opportunities for people to come together. Seeing the big picture and considering how the natural environment will change and grow ensures we design in a way that makes the most of your investment.

No matter the project type or size, our goal is to create enjoyable places that will grow, mature, and evolve for years to come.

Our landscape teams back up their design chops with the technical knowledge of zoning and building code, environmental design systems, and their skill coordinating with project collaborators — like structural engineers, civil engineers, and geotechs — to bring successful landscape and site design projects over the finish line.

Our work is not just about things that grow, it’s about hardscapes, site sculpting, and outdoor rooms and structures. We work at the interface between the natural environment and the built environment, designing cohesion between the two.

We consider all the elements of a site: the living elements, the natural features, the buildings, the indoor spaces, the neighboring spaces — the overall experience of being there. We consider how it will function and feel, making it not only beautiful but designing how it will evolve, react to the elements, shift with the seasons, and evolve over time.

We’re constantly exploring technology and refining every part of the project process to be more efficient, freeing up time and energy to devote to design. Great tools allow us to iterate faster as we test theories and explore new ideas — we aren’t an analog studio.

Not only do we design in 3D, but we start with an advantage, using drones and cutting-edge software to create detailed site models with photographic overlays of the actual conditions of your property. On-site with iPads in-hand and drones above, we work with hybrid digital and hand graphics to design in real-time, creating beautiful artifacts from the design process itself, without having to return to the office to spend time and money rendering an idea.

Changes and challenges take up much less time when we have the tools to help us connect the dots, illustrate proposed solutions, and make quicker decisions.

Don’t worry, your project isn’t too small, too large, or too complex for us. Our landscape architects and designers have experience with a wide array of project types and scopes. We love a small backyard refresh just as much as a comprehensive plan for a residential estate, a multifamily amenity roof deck, a commercial streetscape, or a public park or community space. Plus, our site design team works not only with our other in-house design teams, but also independently with other architecture and interior design firms.

Working at a multidisciplinary firm means our landscape architecture team engages in design for a wide spectrum of projects and is constantly collaborating with architects, interior designers, and a host of other creative professionals. This gives us the benefit of an unusually broad experience and depth of knowledge we leverage to bring fresh ideas to all of our projects.

Our open, collaborative studio culture means we ask questions left and right across sectors and design disciplines. Even when a project is firmly rooted in the realm of landscape architecture, everyone has access to firm-wide knowledge and the benefits of creative critique.

This cross-disciplinary pollination enriches our work, leading to more cohesive, more holistic designed experiences across the firm. We’re an experienced team, passionate about the work — we’d love to help you design the landscaped or outdoor experience you’re envisioning.