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Shemagh. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

LASD Studio works across garden design, landscape architecture, urban design, and regional landscape design. Our goal is to live in balance with nature. With landscape design, we have to close the cycle of clean water, fresh air, ready to plant soil, and other vital resources for the next generation.

The Shemagh Project is a holistic approach towards mitigating the urban heat island effect, providing comfort to public. The Shemagh Project proposes to target the urban heat island effect by active and passive design approaches. An active part of the design includes the Urban Cooler that directly catches CO2, cleans the air of hazardous chemicals, viruses and bacteria, and significantly cools down the air; and pavilions that reduce UV and IR solar radiation, providing shade from the sun, serve as refreshing areas for the public, and providing useful urban facilities such as restrooms, storage, etc.

The passive part of the design involves using special coatings for the surrounding parking areas, as well as permeable pavement to increase the albedo ratio. The active part of the design project to lower air temperature in a range from 7 to 13 °C locally, depending on the urban cooler setup, while the passive design will reduce surface heat in the range of 5-12 °C. The holistic combination of active and passive approaches allows us to predict that we will be able to cool down the current area to about 13-16 °C from the original site under the no-wind urban environment condition.

The Shemagh Project is replicable and adjustable for other locations across the city. The establishment of a Shemagh Grid around the city center will create more powerful conditions of mitigating the urban heat island effect of the city and reduce the temperature to the level of ‘moderate heat stress’ and ‘no thermal stress’. We propose that such a solution should be implemented in a walkable distance grid across the city not only to mitigate the urban heat island effect on the larger area, but also to provide vital refreshment of public spaces for urban life.

Our landscape, ecology, civilization, and the future of the planet are at risk. We aim to create, shape, and restore the landscape and urban environments for the sustainable continuation of life on our planet. Our goal is to live in balance with nature and provide clean water, air, soil resources for the next generation.

We cannot achieve our goal alone. Whether you are an individual, commercial business, an NGO, or governmental institution, you are welcome to join our mission.

Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

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Butterfly garden. Poway, California.

The landscape is alive; it blooms years and years after our magical work. Private gardens in San Diego, California, nominated as one of the best landscape design for nature restoration. We created this garden to enhance wildlife and biodiversity and being able to live in unity as one gentle open synergetic system.

We cannot achieve our goal alone. Whether you are an individual, commercial business, an NGO, or governmental institution, you are welcome to join our mission.

Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

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Bishop Lucey Park Timeline. Cork, Ireland.

Timeline concept – visitors pass through the main alle and see vibrant, diverse activities and groups of people that form urban life. In a philosophical sense, this is a timeline of a human being's life. The design proposal intends to bring our community together. Bishop Lucey Park redevelopment proposal defines future achievements of unique space identity, vibrancy, mix-use, open possibilities for the future changes within the fixed grid that allows residents, visitors, tourism, and business attraction. The ‘Timeline’ design proposal combines recommendations and principles of The City Movement Strategy, The Cork City Council Corporate Plan, and Cork City Development Plan.

The ‘Timeline’ design proposal principles are:

1. Movement and Accessibility;

2. Play – Relax – Enjoy, the place will serve the needs of the vibrant community;

3. Multifunctionality for the all-ages, diverse interests, as well as for people with physical abilities;

4. Security of space by design;

5. Form a grid that allows the evolution of the space.

We cannot achieve our goal alone. Whether you are an individual, commercial business, an NGO, or governmental institution, you are welcome to join our mission.

Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

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Contemporary Landscape Design. Chula Vista, San Diego, California.

Contemporary Landscape Design Minimal planting, clear order, clean lines. With this design, we were targeting open living space with a clear bound to the minimalist movement. This work set out to expose the essence of space and its identity by eliminating all non essential forms. In Buddhism - the art of minimalism living.

Existing Condition

We cannot achieve our goal alone. Whether you are an individual, commercial business, an NGO, or governmental institution, you are welcome to join our mission.

Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

Contemporary garden

San Diego, California

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Baroque Garden. Hillcrest, San Diego, California.

Baroque gardens were intended to illustrate the mastery of man over nature.

They were often designed to be seen from above and from a little distance, usually from the salons or terraces of a chateau. They were laid out like rooms in a house, in geometric patterns, divided by gravel alleys or lanes, with the meeting points of the lanes often marked by fountains or statues. Flower beds were designed like tapestries, with bands of shrubbery and flowers forming the designs. Larger bushes and trees were sculpted into conical or dome-like shapes, and trees were grouped in bosquets, or orderly clusters. Water was usually present in the form of long rectangular ponds, aligned with the terraces of the house, or circular ponds with fountains. The gardens usually included one more small pavilion, where visitors could take shelter from the sun or rain.

Credit to: Kluckert, "Les Jardins Baroques", in L'Art Baroque – Architecture- Sculpture- Peinture (2015), p. 152

EXISTING CONDITION

Our landscape, ecology, future of the planet, and our civilization is under a big risk. We aim to create, shape, and restore the landscape and urban environments for the sustainable continuation of life on our planet. Our goal is to live in balance with nature and provide: clean water, air, soil resources for the next generation. But we cannot achieve our goal alone.

Whether you are private person, commercial, NGO’s, or governmental institution you are welcome to join our mission.
Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

Shemagh. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Shemagh

Butterfly garden. Poway, California.

Butterfly garden

Bishop Lucey Park Timeline. Cork, Ireland.

Timeline

Contemporary Landscape Design. Chula Vista, San Diego, California.

Contemporary garden

Baroque Garden. Hillcrest, San Diego, California.

Baroque Garden