| LAND PLANNING/CONSERVATION
New West Land Company defines a new variety of professional services that are not bound by conventional understanding and preconceptions of the role of an architect, land planner, or conservationist. We strive instead to integrate all of these perspectives into one visionary approach to the places we live in, laying the groundwork for new relationships to emerge. The goal of our work- healthy re-engagement with the Land- derives from sustained action on physical, cultural, economic and spiritual levels.
An important component of our land planning practice is “pure restoration” of critical habitats ranging from spring creeks to urban estuaries, funded both by public agencies and private conservationists. However, restoration and enhancement is a goal of all of our land planning efforts, and an important element in the value-adding aspects of our architecture and development design. One of the best tools available for effecting timely and strategic conservation efforts is, ironically, “conservation development”. This type of development, what we call place-appropriate inhabitation, can not only bring resources to enhance and protect threatened places of critical cultural and ecological value, but also design for the type of informed human community that will assure its stewardship well beyond the life of the “project” itself.
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