Yakima, Washington

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This Senior Community incorporates retirement apartments, assisted living and skilled nursing all within a 8 acre campus filled with unique garden nodes spaced periodically along the village trail and walks. The looping trail system allows residents to meet friends at a variety of gardens including a rose garden, perennial gardens, raised plant beds and even a quick stop by at the Village Center for refreshments. Macdonald Environmental Planning was responsible for the development of the outdoor garden spaces, the trails, walkways, the Alzheimer’s courtyard and the village center café patio.

Portland, Oregon

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Trenton Terrace is a highly-livable home provides 66-units, low-income, independent senior living apartments in a building located on a .9 acre site within North Portland’s New Columbia neighborhood
A thin, transparent bridge connection links the east and west wings, affording natural light and a view to the south terrace and the grand heritage tree which the project was planned. Greening elements include stormwater swales that treat the roof and parking lot runoff onsite.

Hillsboro, Oregon

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Initially this project was a 210 unit market rate apartments situated on approximately 7 acres in the Orenco Station light rail community. The landscape elements that we were responsible for included pocket parks, a mitigated wetland, a swimming pool and pool deck design and all the landscaping in the open spaces between the units. Later the project was converted to a condominium community and we were then asked to add the privacy fences between the units and the neighborhood connectivity walkways.

Sisters, Oregon

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Tamarack Village was a 33 unit affordable housing project for CORHA located in Sisters, Oregon. We provided the irrigation, landscape and play area design for this project.

Crosswater, Oregon

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The Olsen Residence was built in Crosswater, Oregon and located on the Crosswater G.C. It was a lodge like construction which used natural rock for the spa and patio off the rear of the home. We provided detailed design of the irrigation and landscape to meet with the Design Standards for Crosswater. Many native species were planted in this foot hill microclimate near Sunriver Oregon.

Woodburn, Oregon

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Vancouver, Washington

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Macdonald Environmental Planning, PC provided the landscape design and irrigation drawings for this condominium project located on Columbia River Drive.

Portland, Oregon

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This 537 Unit Condominium Conversion at the Portland Center vintage 1967 includes roof top plazas & extensive site landscape re-imaging.

Portland, Oregon

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Humboldt Gardens was a Hope VI, affordable housing project for the Housing Authority of Portland, which included a mixed use building that achieved LEED Silver certification from the USGBC.

As Landscape Architect we collaborated with the Civil Engineer to develop an award winning approach to a Green Street treatment for stormwater.  The plantings for the Green Street used water tolerant plants and swale seed mix in the swales  with more residential plant selections by the walkways leading into the units. The combination of the lawn and swale grass  panels as they move through the front yard and shrub beds allows easy maintenance by mowing both.

The project’s sustainable design elements including permeable paving, soft stormwater swales, a green street, a community pocket park and garden seating courtyards.  The landscaping approach throughout the project was child tough, low maintenance and complementary to a residential neighborhood.

Humboldt Gardens was recognized by the 2009 City of Portland BEST Awards as the winner of the Green Building for New construction/Major renovation.

Portland, Oregon

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ON THE BOARDS

Macdonald Environmental Planning will be providing landscape architectural services for the Rose Villa revitalization project. This 24 acre Senior Community will offer a variety of sustainable design element including greenroofs, rooftop gardens, stormwater collection into cisterns and naturalized creeks that will flow down through the site to wetland retention ponds.  All open areas are designed to engage the residents in gardens, outdoor activities and will serve to fully unify and connect the community.  The project is pursuing LEED ND.   Images provided by Myhre Group Architects.