STANDARDS

From the smallest to the largest projects, Prototype strives for thoughtful design by:

  • utilizing methods that are considered best practices; tried and tested; technologically current

  • specifying materials that are considered ecologically appropriate; responsibly harvested / made / produced / managed; domestically sourced and native when possible


PROCESS

Re- prefix
Used to add the meaning "do again," especially to verbs:

reimagine the ordinary; revise the accepted; reuse the overlooked; restore the neglected; respond to the ignored…

To ‘do again’ isn’t foreign to the design world and to landscape architects, and is taken seriously at Prototype.

We start with something- a preliminary design, concept, model, understanding-
and develop it further, improving, advancing, prototyping until that something is totally satisfactory- and then back to the drawing board to ‘do again’.

 

“In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but what we refuse to destroy”
-John Sawhill, The Nature Conservancy