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CSU San Marcos Student Health and Counseling Center

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 1.3 Acres
Partners: RNT Architects
Client: CSU San Marcos
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2012

About the Project

landLAB and RNT collaborated on a design build competition for the new Student Health and Counseling Services facility at the California State University, San Marcos campus. The landscape concept utilizes the existing topography; incorporating the concept of hillside, valley and plain. The ‘Hillside’ slopes will be vegetated with Coast Live Oak trees and a fragrant, native understory. The ‘Valley’ is represented by the buildings negative space; this more private North face is perfect for shade loving plants and Riparian species as the lush landscape spills out in to the open meadow. The ‘Plain’ or meadow area lies in the footprint of the future Phase 2 building. Native grasses and flowering perennials double as a sensory, healing garden and storm-water retention garden.


Proposed Site Plan

Site West & North Elevations

Camp Vernon Kilpatrick

The Facts

Location: Santa Monica, CA, USA
Size: 18 Acres
Partners: KMD Architects, Balfour Beatty
Client: LA County Public Works
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2014

About the Project

landLAB teamed with KMD Architects and Balfour Beatty Construction on the Camp Vernon Kilpatrick Replacement Design build Competition.  Integrating the facility into the existing native hillside was one of the many design challenges this unique project and program presented.  The initial landscape concept drew inspiration from the site’s natural surroundings and a prerequisite to create a restorative environment.  The overall landscape design stems from the necessity and the desire to create a sustainable campus. By using sustainable principles as a guide, everything in the landscape has dual purpose.   A large perimeter of native shrubs and trees screens the facility while also providing a beneficial natural wildlife corridor. Special vocational features include creating raised vegetable beds or other growing facilities for on-site vegetable and herb production, plant reproduction and site landscape restoration. The Design for Camp Kilpatrick will become the new paradigm for youth correctional facilities.


Proposed Site Plan

Architectural Plan

Hardscape Plan

Site Tree Plan

Riviera Hotel Las Vegas

The Facts

Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Size: 15 Acres
Partners: Graham Downes Architecture
Client: Riviera Hotel Las Vegas
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2012

About the Project

landLAB and Graham Downes Architecture collaborated on a hotel refresh concept to revitalize the historic Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The design aspires to restore the Riviera Hotel to the iconic resort status that it once had in the mid 1900’s. Outdoor spaces that will be upgraded in the initial phase are the main hotel pool deck, private patio spaces, courtyards, walkways, and entry spaces such as the main lobby and visitor drop-off areas adjacent to Las Vegas Boulevard, also known as, ‘The Strip’. The concept modernizes the mid-century modern design aesthetics of the Riviera through refined geometric landscape features and decorative planting and paving accents that define space and circulation. The pool experience includes creating space for relaxation, places to be seen, and private cabanas. Daybeds are provided for sunning and recovery, poolside pavilions for events and parties, and lounge areas for enjoying a cold beverage on a hot Vegas afternoon.



Main Courtyard Plan

West Lawn Plan

Podium Pool Club

Cal Poly Pomona Student Housing

The Facts

Location: Pomona, CA, USA
Size: 35 Acres
Partners: Steinberg Architects, PCL
Client: Cal Poly Pomona
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2015

About the Project

landLAB teamed with Steinberg Architects and PCL Construction on the Cal Poly Pomona Student Housing Design Build Competition. The landscape concept for the new student housing village is connection and community.  Creating an attractive, fun, safe and healthy neighborhood and home for students and their families.  The landscape strives to increase opportunities for social interaction and collaboration, places to study, hang out or play.  While the proposed landscape is cohesive in character, smaller zones within the larger development provide a variety of different spaces for the residents.



Housing Masterplan

Masterplan Phasing

Site Hydrology

Site Planting Typologies

Rady Children’s Hospital & MOB

The Facts

Location: Murrieta, CA, USA
Size: 4 Acres
Partners: Taylor Design
Client: Rady Children’s Hospital
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2015

About the Project

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Proposed Site Plan

Proposed Gardens

UCSD East Campus Health Sciences Parking Structure

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 5 Acres
Partners: Scarpa Architects, Watry Design, McCarthy
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2010

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Pugh + Scarpa Architects/Watry Design and McCarthy Construction, and on the design/build project for the East Campus Health Sciences Parking Structure adjacent to the new Cardiovascular center at Thorton Hospital at UCSD. The team was one of the three finalists in a design build competition for the project. The project vision included storm water retention areas, adjacent restored San Diegan Coastal Sage Scrub habitat, restorative & medicinal gardens, seating and greeting spaces, enhanced pedestrian connections, connection of existing bicycle lane + additional bike storage, 1200 space multi-story parking garage design with anticipated LEED certification.



Proposed Site Plan

Biological Resources

Site Elevations

UCSD North Point Entry

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: ?
Partners: N/A
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2013

About the Project

landLAB conducted a series of studies for entry signage options to be located at the University of California San Diego north point entry, at the intersection of north torrey pines road and north point entry drive. The solution is comprised of three 6 foot rammed earth walls that mimic the sloping terrain. Signage lettering will be made of corten steel. The walls are positioned to achieve maximum visibility from all sides of the intersection. The planting concept establishes swaths of low-water use and native California plants, succulents, and groundcovers with a backdrop of mature torrey pine trees to provide a naturalized – yet still somewhat formal – landscape character.



Montreal Symphony Public Art

The Facts

Location: Montreal, Quebec, CA
Size: ? Acres
Partners: Noel Harding Studio
Client: Montreal Symphony
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2008

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with artist Noel Harding on a public art competition for the Montreal Symphony. The work consists of three lighting structures that suggest oversized desk lamps. The polished stainless steel lamps contain LED light arrays that are powered by a pole-mounted wind turbine, providing character from afar and within through reflection and light; choreographed by season, weather, light, clouds and night. The lighting structures illuminate a ‘stage’ space for public participation, interaction, and convergence. The installation is balances and complements the scale of adjacent architectural lighting, while creating an immediate psychological enclosure open to the sky with glowing red light, expanding and retreating ever changing. The team was one of five teams shortlisted for this project



Proposed Site Plan

Red Light Breeze

Green Corridor Urban Wetland

The Facts

Location: Windsor, Ontario, CA
Size: ? Acres
Partners: Noel Harding Studio
Client: City of Windsor
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2008

About the Project

The Green Corridor is a ground breaking initiative for generating a green redevelopment of the International bridge corridor linking Canada to the United Sates in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Green corridor aims to generate local, national and international focus by integrating Public Art, sustainable technologies, and scientific monitoring along the two kilometer multi-lane trade route. Traveling along its 2km length, visitors will experience a new conception of the urban landscape –shifting from a concrete jungle to a “regenerative green zone” where landscape ecology is celebrated. landLAB collaborated with the Green Corridors team on the conceptual design of an interpretive wetland located between The University of Windsor’s Sports Complex and the Assumption Catholic high school in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The project will incorporate native habitat restoration, as well as interpretive outdoor classroom areas and boardwalks that will be linked to other green corridor projects including the adjacent “green bridge”. landLAB will work closely with the City of Windsor to link the project with the City’s bicycle master plan, as well as the University of Windsor proposed pedestrian spine.




Proposed Site Plan

Landscape Typologies

Outdoor Classroom

Concept Scheme 1

Concept Scheme 2

Arriva Public Art Competition ‘Landscape River’

The Facts

Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Size: N/A
Partners: Noel Harding Studio
Client: City of Calgary
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2007

About the Project

Artist Noel Harding and landLAB collaborated on an urban public art project for a mixed use residential/commercial project in downtown Calgary. Landscape River offers an image of Calgary refracted in landscape impositions and reflections. A mountain outline silvered in the sun toward an evening inner glow. A narrative instilled with mirroring vessels and containers that attenuate and embolden the stature of living trees. Held in the hill is a symbolic vessel remembering watering. It is a magnification of the plant in the window with a turning tree signifying the rise of the sun each morning. A river of people as ripples, a stream that stretches extending the site giving weather and seasons. A sequence of LED video screens and linked cameras located to establish “being there”. Events like this are given to commentary, the community talks, the community listens. The team was one of five teams short-listed for this project.



Site Plan

Camera Plan