Passive use, shaded areas are ideal for native woodland plants.

Active child + dog play is accommodated in the crushed limestone gravel area, between turf mounds.

What was once a flat, destroyed landscape now has dynamic surfaces, comfortable play zones and provides a setting for native plant habitats.

Family play is the key with this landscape.

What was once a flat bermuda landscape now has dynamic surfaces, comfortable entertainment zones and provides a setting for native plant habitats.

In addition to a custom designed shade structure, featuring expanded steel panels to absorb the sun's rays, this patio includes two of Ecotope's cantilevered benches for luxury seating.

Planted areas, limestone gravel paths, illustrated water flows (dry creeks) with local river stone and planted areas featuring exclusively native plants of the Edwards Plateau of Texas.

Native plants are tucked into the shady understory condition for this project, that features a dry creek and limestone gravel walking paths.

The finer crushed limestone on the outer boundaries of the dry creek simulates the finer particulates of broken stone created in natural creeks common in the Hill Country of Texas.

The expanded steel panel in this custom steel shade structure can be seen casting about a 50 percent screen on the limestone gravel below, making the space below more enjoyable on hot sunny days in Austin, Texas.

This is a dramatic example of the Ecotopes steel + stone patio, which is a steel frame, welded into place, then filled with gravel to create a walking surface. Steel confines the gravel for a permanent, flexible, permeable, comfortable surface space.

The site of this project offered a naturally occurring spring during rainy months, so the landforms we created where dramatically undulating + broken to accentuate this.

In this landscape, a cistern is used to create a simulated spring. When this cistern is filled by rain water, it slowly drains out over a couple of weeks into the constructed wetland/bio-swale.

5x3 steel angle was used to create two slightly elevated spaces in this shady patio, providing more spatial amenity and improved rain water flow.