Rehabitation by design
Rehabitation is the name T. Barnabas Kane & Associates has given to the fresh approach we bring to new landscape design, construction and renovation. Rehabitation is an architectural and landscape design method that goes beyond sustainable landscaping to create productive habitat by considering how the built environment and natural world can benefit each other. It takes into account how people, nature and structures co-exist, and considers how their activities and presence can fill each other’s needs. These activities are not mutually exclusive, but improve the environment for all. How rehabitation works:
- Mitigates site disturbance
- Begins with intensive observation of site nature and ecology
- Exploits environmental and climactic opportunities
- Treats flora, fauna and humans as productive participants in habitat
- Depends on informed plant selection, soil treatment and run-off manipulation
- Depends on understanding of regional plant communities
- Enhances site by fully integrating new and existing structures
- Takes a system-based, logical approach
Rehabitation landscaping balances the needs of all inhabitants of a built environment to generate life. To learn more about the components of this new landscape design approach, visit the architect's journal section of this site.