Cascade
LANDSCAPE PILLAR SITE INTELLIGENCE · LAND AND WATER DESIGN

Know what the land can carry before the money is committed

Cascade reads a site the way it behaves: terrain, water, soils, access, ecology, use, and returns a design and a build sequence the project team can act on and an investor can read.

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TERRAIN, WATER, AND LAND-USE DESIGN
A Site You Can Build On
WHAT THE WORK DECIDES

Developing a deep understanding of the land, its potential, and its limits.

To cultivate a deep understanding of your site, Cascade brings ecological insight, agronomic knowledge, and years of experience in the field. The design is never finished unless checked against real observation and field verification.

Selected work

SAMANÁ PENINSULA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC · 20 HA

Samaná water layer design

Basin delineation and cascade hierarchy — Samaná Located water interventions — Samaná Numbered site plan, aerial — Samaná Proposed interventions plan with legend — Samaná 3D slope model — Samaná

A karst site where water was the decisive question. LiDAR at 0.5 m, 15 micro-basins on site, a cascade hierarchy design, and a karst-informed reading of how water moves through the landscape, creating a clear reading for it's implications down the slope, and in the final vision of the owner.

OUTCOME
  • 24 located interventions sequenced into four phases
  • Work starts high in the landscape and moves down the cascade
AVOIDED
  • Pond sites that looked ideal from above and would likely have drained
  • Road-edge drainage that needed protection before anything upslope was built
FOUND
  • A mid-cascade pond candidate high enough above the crop zone to support gravity-fed irrigation
  • Pending field verification
LIDAR TERRAIN ANALYSIS HYDROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT IMPLEMENTATION SEQUENCING
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More landscape work

What a site can support only becomes clear through robust technical analysis. That is also what makes the investment behind it sound.

Where it applies

The scale changes and the technical depth changes with it. The question does not: what can this place realistically support, and how should its systems fit together?

DELIVERABLES

What you get

Scope runs from a focused site read to a full master plan. Each output exists to settle a decision, not to fill a report. Select an output to see what it looks like.

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Start with the site check

Six questions on where your site currently stands: what is already known, what still needs to be understood, and which starting point is likely to be useful. It is a directional read rather than an assessment, so book a free call to discuss the results.

THE SITE CHECK

Clarify what your land is ready for, in about four minutes.

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ORIGIN

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