neighbourly hackney Landscape architecture & Design Studio

landscape CARE THROUGH CREATIVITY

We design & nurture two landscape architectural typologies; NEIGHBOURHOOD PROJECTS, close to home, and FIELD WORK, of broader scope. The values from each direct our innovative, biodiverse studio outcomes…

Neighbouring projects:

GARDEN CURATION

A small garden in Hackney that gathers four years of nomadic plant collection across the city. Plants that carry stories, plants that carry memories.

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Right to Grow

Benefiting from Hackney Borough Council's 'Right to Grow' initiative, the archetypal NEIGHBOURING PROJECT develops a native-only, low impact tree nursery on unused land.

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Field WORK:

Spring meadow planting

Ongoing planting of a spring flowering meadow; a bulb-first scheme that tests densities to apply to future Neighbourhood Work.

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Mediterranean learnings

Schematic design and delivery of Mallorcan planting pallets, with an eye to future-local climate and environmental conditions.

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human-second masterplan

Launched off the back of a Field Review, this project develops a phased masterplan, masking ecological intervention under human-centric design.

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installation experimentation

Very much a conceptual project, together with our Neighbours, tracks have been made and a process of emergence set underway for a tree-based sculptural piece.

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THE NBF process:

Literally ‘Neighbouring’ one another along the length of Hackney’s Queensbridge Road, Juan & Sam develop landscape potential via the studio’s neighbourhood scale, up…
A NEIGHBOURHOOD PROJECT therefore focuses on our local environment and it’s community links. The objective of a NEIGHBOURHOOD PROJECT is for each decision to increase planted biomass, critically, the interconnection of NbF’s input to existing Borough biodiversity networks.
As a starter for ten, we offer a fast, agile assessment of existing, iterative or emergent landscapes.
Undertaken for a small, commitment-free fee, a Field Review makes management, care and speculative recommendations.
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We consider FIELD WORK to cover near e Field Review, we then draw on Neighbouring Fields’ specialisation; landscape concept and strategy.
Together with you as the landscape’s custodia, we work to design and agree a way forward across all scales and timelines.
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Neighbouring or fields?

Neighbouring Fields Planting Design Stipa tenuissima

A red ladder leaning against a tree with green leaves and small green apples, in a farm or orchard setting with a grassy field and trees in the background, under a partly cloudy sky.

Although we’re Landscape Architects, Neighbouring Fields’ designs never start with a form.

We start with a force, knowing that every potential site holds an underlying logic, ecology, history and material. We take on the task of finding these, and with care and creativity, make them visible.

Neighbouring Fields works across all scales and contexts. Whilst landscape briefs and sites constantly change, the approach remains constant.

We start with a Field Review; analysing place carefully, understanding what it already holds. Working with each client, our designs and outcomes amplify what is already there, as well as introducing new forces to awaken other waiting processes.

A garden, a park, a forgotten corner of infrastructure; all sites Neighbouring Fields treat with the same curiosity and rigour.

OUR EXPERIENCE:

We understand that as an emerging practice, we need to offer credibility, justifying our thoughts and existence, and of course, fees!

Together with our listed projects, we hope our past experiences will do some of the talking. If not, let us know below in the contact section below:

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Juan is a registered Architect from the Universidad de Chile. He practiced as a Landscape Architect in Chile across a wide range of scales and project, working from concept development through to construction.

Due to his academic excellence and professional achievements, he was awarded a Chilean National Scholarship to pursue a Master’s in Landscape Architecture at UCL in the United Kingdom.

Following graduation, he worked on projects across London and Cambridge for award-winning Landscape Architect’s J&L Gibbons before founding Neighbouring Fields.

Sam is an emerging Landscape Architect and Creative Project Manager with a broad, cross-disciplinary background founded in multi-scale design, production and promotion.

Having also studied the Bartlett School of Architecture, during which he earned three Landscape Architecture awards, including the overall MLA Bartlett Medal and Environmental and Technical Design Prize, he has recently concluded a tenure at Foster + Partners, working on Oxford’s Ellison Institute of Technology suite of projects.