Landscape Architecture Studio & Collective
landscape CARE THROUGH CREATIVITY
We design, build and nurture landscapes of all size, scope and scale, prioritising gradual ecological development over blanket changes.
The Neighbours:
The Neighbours:
Literally ‘Neighbouring’ one another along the length of E8’s Queensbridge Road, Juan & Sam, as founders of the Studio & Collective, sniff out landscape potential across Hackney and beyond.
We (they, us) operate in deliberately literal ‘Neighbouring Field’ to the by now mega-industries of traditional Landscape Architecture or Garden Design, becoming specialists in the sites, gardens or outdoor spaces others might well overlook…
Together with Neighbouring Fields Collective, we’d love to hear about your landscape…
field notes:
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, expanding ‘into’ the Collective, should project scope allow it. Whilst landscape briefs and sites constantly change, the approach remains constant.
We start by 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.
Research and experimentation are at the core of our practice, rather than separate from it, and is evident in all ongoing projects:
FIELDS OF PRACTICE:
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Fast, agile assessment and review of existing residential, public or commercial landscape forces, conditions and actors.
As both a Studio & Collective, Neighbouring Fields regularly undertakes ‘Landscape Assessments’ for a commitment-free fee.
We use in-person and digital-only techniques developed in-house by Neighbouring Fields.
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Neighbouring Fields specialises in landscape concept and strategy.
Together with the landscape, and you, its custodian, we work to design and agree a way forward across all scales and timelines; a metaphorical seed-to-forest process.
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We’re most excited when a design concept moves off the page and into the living, breathing landscape.
Neighbouring Fields implements, builds and commences the physical and ecological processes reflective of an agreed design. This includes planting design, procurement and well, planting…
Landscapes of all scales take time and care to come to life - Neighbouring Fields will present throughout this ride!
Field work:
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![A small outdoor patio area with a fire pit, wooden chair, small side table, and lush green plants and flowers along a wooden fence.]()
The Garden of Memories
Hackney, London
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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![Neighbouring Fields Concept Masterplan]()
Old Rectory Rooms
Dorset, UK
Ongoing concept development and planning of a phased garden renewal; over 100 years of heritage and legacy design, revised for modern family use.
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![A small orchard or garden with a central tree, surrounded by a circular border made of gathered branches or twigs. There is a red ladder leaning against the tree and a bowl or container attached to it, possibly holding fruit or plants. The ground within the circle is cleared and grassy, with other trees and grassy areas visible outside the circle.]()
Labour of Paradise
South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Very much a conceptual project, tracks have been made, and a process of emergency set underway for on a tree-based sculptural piece.
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![Modern house with white exterior, large glass doors, and balcony, surrounded by trees and lush garden.]()
Casa Mariposa
Mallorca, Spain
Traditional, yet with a Neighbouring Fields flare, the gardens of Casa Mariposa are now over two years old, settling the architecture into the Mallorcan hillside.
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FIELD EXPERIENCE:
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.
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:
INTO THE FIELDS:
Come and see for yourself, and arrange a call, coffee or better yet, site visit.