Friday Focus on Landscape Design

Each Friday Studio W will post new and relevant information regarding Landscape Design and Architecture.  We hope you will find this useful and share with family and friends.  Please feel free to reach out to us at info@thestudiow.com or 405.285.5610.

How much value does landscaping add to the value of your home or commercial real estate?

Investing in your property, can add value to
to your home

Residential:

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) recommends that homeowners invest 10 percent of the home’s value in landscaping. Landscape architecture goes beyond plantings, or softscaping, to include structural features like lighting, fences, garden paths, fire pits, swimming pools, and ponds. Outdoor rooms, terraces, and decks are also high-yield structural or hardscaping investments. A landscape architect can work with the client to generate a detailed plan. 

Landscape design can do more then just add value to your home, just three trees in the right location can save up to $250 a year in heating and cooling costs, says the source for energy-saving stats: the U.S. Department of Energy.

Commercial:

Oklahoma Farm Bureau Plaza Design
Designed by Studio W

Commercial real estate can be a lucrative investment.  But in order to get the most out of our investment, it is vital to enhance and maintain the property to attract tenants or customers.  This will protect your long-term investment of your property.

By having well maintained landscape and mature well-groomed trees, this can improve and protect your commercial property for years to come.  

Commercial property owners can also gain respect and admiration from their community by offering water features or unique stonework or landscape designs.  Adding these features to your commercial property will not only increase its property value, it can help make your property a focal point in the community and a place families want to gather.

Studies show commercial office space with a high quality landscape design have up to 7% higher rental rates.  

Investing in your home or commercial real estate will add value, increase community involvement and yield a return on your investment for years to come.

For more information on commercial or high-end residential landscape design, contact:  Studio W at info@thestudiow.com or 405.285.5610.

Friday Focus on Landscape Design

Each Friday Studio W will post new and relevant information regarding Landscape Design and Architecture.  We hope you will find this useful and share with family and friends.  Please feel free to reach out to us at info@thestudiow.com or 405.285.5610.

What is a Landscape Designer:
A landscape designer, sometimes called a landscape architect, creates attractive, functional outdoor spaces for homeowners, businesses, schools and other organizations.  They combine nature and culture.   Landscape Designers influence Natural Processes, Social Processes and Aesthetic Processes. 

ASLA:
"Landscape architects design the built environment of neighborhoods, towns and cities while also protecting and managing the natural environment, from its forests and fields to rivers and coasts. Members of the profession have a special commitment to improving the quality of life through the best design of places for people and other living things. In fact, the work of landscape architects surrounds us. Members of the profession are involved in the planning of such sites as office plazas, public squares and thoroughfares. The attractiveness of parks, highways, housing developments, urban plazas, zoos and campuses reflects the skill of landscape architects in planning and designing the construction of useful and pleasing projects."


Studio W is a professional landscape design firm offering creative solutions to maximize function and durability in our projects.

Headquartered in the rapidly growing Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area, Studio W is fortunate to have access to virtually limitless opportunities. With that in mind, we are driven to influence not only our professional design community, but our civic community as well.

For more information, or to contact a professional Landscape Designer, email info@thestudiow.com or call 405.285.5610

Landscape Architecture: Harmonizing Geography and Architecture

What does a Landscape Architect do?

Landscape architecture covers a huge spectrum, perhaps best understood by the profession’s mantra: achieving a balance between the built and natural environments. It requires a multidisciplinary approach involving environmental science, art, ecology, and much more, leading to extraordinary results like restoring endangered wetlands, reducing hospital stays, securing government and other buildings, and removing toxins from rainwater. These aren’t pie in the sky. These are what landscape architects are designing right now.

Landscape architecture encompasses the design of almost anything under the sky. Think of iconic places like Boston's Emerald Necklace and the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C. But also consider your downtown square, your local park, or even your own backyard. Green roofs, urban farms, and corporate campuses—all define landscape architecture.

Founded in 1899, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is the national professional association representing landscape architects. ASLA promotes the profession and advances its practice through advocacy, education, communication, and fellowship. Central to ASLA’s mission and all outreach is stewardship of the land.

ASLA also works to increase the public’s awareness of and appreciation for the profession of landscape architecture and its contributions to quality of life. ASLA is an active advocate for the profession at the local, state, and national levels of public policy involving licensure, the environment and sustainable design, livable communities, surface transportation, historic preservation, and storm-water management issues, among others.

At Studio W, our team of professional landscape designers create solutions while maximizing function and durability in every project, both commercial and residential.  We know the importance of serving the community we live in and are proud to serve on the board of our local ASLA chapter.

For more information, contact us at info@thestudiow.com or go to www.thestudiow.com.  

Read entire article at:  National Building Museum

Passion and Community Involvement Drive Studio W

The team at Studio W takes pride in their involvement in the community as well as the local Oklahoma chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).

Since 2009, Jason Wilke, Owner of Studio W has been the Treasurer of the Oklahoma Chapter of ASLA.  As he moves into the role as President-Elect in 2017, Studio W's Associate/Production Manager, Ryan Grider will take over as Treasurer at OKASLA.

The mission of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is to lead, to educate and participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning and artful design of our cultural and natural environments.

ASLA seeks to improve the public understanding of the profession and advance the practice of Landscape Architecture.

"Our team here at Studio W takes an active role not only in the professional design community, but in the civic community as well," said Jason Wilke, Owner of Studio W.  

"We know how important it is to stay involved not only with the leaders in our community, but with the local universities educating and speaking to college students about Landscape Architecture and Design and the impact it has on our environment."

Wilke, a graduate of Oklahoma State University, feels it is crucial to stay connected to your roots.  His goal is to grow Studio W into a nationally known design firm and travel around the country educating others on his passion to preserve and restore the environment and natural habitat.

"We love when we educate a class of college students and when they graduate, they come to work for us.  You either love what we do, or you don't really understand our passion.  We like to think anyone taking landscape architecture courses has the same passion we do."

Studio W is a professional design and architecture firm offering creative solutions to commercial and residential clients.

For more information, or to schedule a speaking engagement, contact: Studio W at info@thestudiow.com or 405-285-5610.