Designing for Connection

BareRoot Designs, PLLC works primarily in Asheville offering Landscape Architecture and Consulting services for residential and small scale commercial developments.

Our clients include residential homeowners, commercial builders, cities, towns, gardeners, developers and contractors.

Designing for Connection
Understanding landscape design as a living ecology of relationships.
We believe successful landscape design is more than just a collection of plants, spaces and structures.

 

Designing for Connection embraces systems based thinking between a network of relationships including people, place, water, soil, architecture and climate, experience and memory. With every design we ask how humans can connect with nature, how we shape the relationships between place, people and the ecological system we are a party of.
With acknowledgement of these elements in relationship to one another we can integrate them to become more than the sum of their parts. Designing for Connection means observing what currently is, identifying the relationships and thoughtfully shaping those relationships to create greater capacity for life through design.

 

We bring together principles of Landscape Architecture, Permaculture and Biophilic Design with a Climate Resilient and a Regenerative design approach. We design beautiful, functional and connected places that can adapt, evolve and become more valuable over time while also supporting the people who live in them. This is because we are not separate from these ecological systems, we are a part of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We offer professional Landscape Architecture services and hold a NC & SC Landscape Architecture license. We have over 15 years of industry experience.

Why Invest in Landscape Design?

There are many reasons why creating a thoughtful and intentional plan before breaking ground on your yard is important.

A comprehensive plan can bring order to your yard by creating specific areas for identified activities- from cooking and dining to celebrations outdoors. It can turn wasted and unused spaces into valued areas of your property and can meld man-made with natural. Not only does a professional landscape increase the value of your property it also lets you expand your living space into the outdoors. Having an intentional landscape can connect you with nature and improve your quality of life by taking you outside more often. The right plant in the right place as well as a good layout can transform any space.

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Commercial Landscape Architecture in Asheville

The Value of Landscaping

"Landscape plant material, size and design sophistication increase perceived home value" Journal of Environmental Horticulture 23 (3): 127-133.

Little consumer research is available to help landscape design and installation businesses develop service marketing strategies. We investigated the effect of three components of a landscape design on the perceived value of a home. This information would be useful in marketing lawn and landscape services to prospective clients. Our objective was to provide a consumer perspective on the value of the components in a ‘good’ landscape and determine which attributes of a landscape consumers valued most. Using conjoint design, 1323 volunteer participants in seven US states (Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas) viewed 16 photographs that depicted the front of a landscaped residence. Landscapes were constructed using various levels of three attributes: plant material type, design sophistication, and plant size. Results showed that the relative importance increased from plant material type to plant size to design sophistication. Across all seven markets, study participants perceived that home value increased from 5% to 11% for homes with a good landscape.

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