Services offered by the firm

The firm provides full services in planning, design, working drawings and specifications, supervision, project co-ordination, cost control and contract administration for the types of projects described below.

Landscape Design

• Inventory, planning, master plans, overall and detailed design for institutional, commercial, industrial, residential and office buildings as well as for parks, resorts and natural sites.
• WAA projects are found in downtown, suburban, rural and regional park locations. The firm has a particular expertise in roof-terrace design.
  

Heritage Landscape and Design

• Studies and inventories of sites with historical character.
• Development of design strategies for commemoration, interpretation and integration within a particular historical context.
• Design of exterior spaces to enhance and interpret historical buildings.
  

Master Planning, Urban Planning

• Overall and detailed design of public spaces, urban plazas and streetscapes including circulation systems for vehicles and pedestrians, structures, retaining walls, fountains, urban furniture, lighting and planting.
• Development of open spaces for specific needs and requirements both public and private, institutional and commercial.
  
• Planning and design of office parks, housing development projects, resort grounds, recreational and institutional layouts. Integration of open space networks within urban and institutional environments including historic precincts.
• Design of park systems, linear parks, theme parks and industrial parks with their required facilities and equipment. Concept development and planning for housing and resort projects.
  

Municipal and Regional Parks

• Overall and detailed planning and design for large-scale sites supporting intensive use, including planting, sports and recreational equipment, children's playgrounds, amphitheatres and outdoor areas for large gatherings.
• Design of installations for outdoor staging, lighting design, festival venues, pedestrian and vehicular circulation and parking for special events.
  

Interior Gardens

• Development of concepts for interior garden displays for museums including live animal exhibits.
• Design of exhibits to represent tropical scenes, desert and temperate-climate ecosystems, arctic and antarctic displays and marine animal life.
• Concept development, educational functions, visual effectiveness and programming.
• Responsible for drainage, irrigation systems, interior lighting and soil separation.
• Design with living and artificial materials.
  

Studies and Reports

• Studies for natural and developed sites in view of conservation, renovation, and development as well as for the restoration of historical sites. Inventory and analysis of existing vegetation.
  
• Visual studies of natural and urban environments.
• Sun and shade studies.
• Analysis and evaluation of impact of proposed projects in natural and constructed environments.
• Feasibility studies for large-scale projects.
• Presentations and reports for public hearing consultations and permit obtaining purposes.