Refolo Landscape Architects, is an established multidisciplinary
chartered landscape architecture studio with experience in a wide range of
sectors including residential, townscape regeneration, master planning, public
realm, leisure, education and surface water management systems. We design
outdoor spaces, including green roofs and roof gardens.
At Refolo we like to consider ourselves as a forward thinking landscape
architecture practice. We research before we act. We embrace challenges. We are
committed to designing outdoor architecture that is environmentally
sustainable, wildlife friendly, aesthetically pleasing, functional and lasting.
According to Vitruvius in his famous book De architectura a structure must
exhibit the three qualities of firmitatis, utilitatis, venustatis – stability,
utility, beauty. For Vitruvius, architecture is an imitation of nature. Nature
provides us with the fundamental geometric patterns of the cosmic order which
we apply in all architecture whether indoors or outdoors. Vitruvius, wrote
about climate in relation to buildings and location for cities. The landscape
is the setting. If the setting is well considered, all else will interlock.