SARKIS EQUINE
Shaping Places, Horses and People for All Life.
DESIGN TEAM PROCESS
Surrounded by an excellent team of surveyors, engineers, builders and specialized trades, Sarkis Equine builds customized design and build teams for each project, to suit your needs.
1) Initial discussions with the client to get a grasp on wishes and visions are followed by gathering all the information we can about a site. Here, the end of a full day of striking levels, recording existing species, soil core samples, microclimate analysis and context. The best days!
3) ...lots of sketching by hand. And always going back to site to ensure our sketches stay true to site. Hand and digital drawings, and drawing on nature's opportunities for growth until we arrive an iteration we can present. Pictured here,
Concept Site Plan for restored piggery to pool house pool, waterfall and rehabilitated creekside.
5) Building permit and pricing out of the way, the big machinery comes out. Excavating for new pond, to be in-line with protected stream for increasing protected shrimp habitat at horse show park.
7) Days and hours on site pay off. Water sitting right where it should be...ready for technical delegate check, and horses!
9) Frequent continuing education. Sunshine in La Drome, France, finishing up a 5-month regenerative design course. Amazing group.
2) At our farm studio, professional practitioners called upon to form the team unique to each project. Collaborating here with Gerry Zegerius of Tacoma Engineers on a living stable. Maybe these are the best days..Idea brainstorming and problem solving and sketching..
4) University students / junior landscape architects can be integrated into research work and esign development. Here, University of Guelph Equine Management students work on biofiltration plant lists non-toxic to horses.
6) It's all about the team. All hands on deck with specialized builders for every aspect. The sand layers going in one lift at a time, on top of a very large liner for the water complexes at the Pan Am Games. It takes 12 people to unfold a heavy liner.
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8) Details, details..Final site visit, Thrilled with how these large capstones feel underfoot, surrounded by perennial pollinator gardens.
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10) At night, all is quiet.