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MUNDEN FRY LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATES


DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE DESIGNS WITH AUTOCAD

AutoCAD Customer Success Story


Courtesy of Munden Fry Landscape Associates



CREATING THOUGHTFUL DESIGNS WITH EXISTING LANDSCAPE AND ECOLOGIES

Munden Fry Landscape Associates is a leading landscape architecture firm with
projects across Northern California. With AutoCAD, they embarked on an ambitious
landscape design and infrastructure project to be one of the first International
Living Building Challenge Certified residences in California.


TAKING A "NATURE FIRST" APPROACH

Santa Lucia Preserve site. Courtesy of Munden Fry Landscape Associates.

Nestled in the Santa Lucia Mountains just outside Carmel-by-the-Sea, California,
the Santa Lucia Preserve offers a unique residential community bound by a
commitment to preserving and respecting its natural surroundings. Eighteen
thousand of the 20,000 acres are permanently protected. Appreciation of the land
and use of architectural design in line with the environment are first and
foremost. 

But the owners of one future home are taking it one step further. They are in
the process of building one of the first residences in California to meet the
rigorous requirements of The Living Building Challenge. The certification is a
performance-based standard of regenerative design that creates positive impact
on human and natural systems. The building and landscape will work in tandem to
protect surrounding ecologies as well as implement net-positive energy systems,
water harvesting, and responsible materials in the project's design.  

The site itself is an undulating topography within an oak woodland habitat and a
meadow in the foreground. The meadow restoration replenishes the health and
biodiversity of the soil, redistributing site won soil and supplementing with
organic amendments. With the home designed by Feldman Architecture, Munden Fry
Landscape Associates (MFLA) is providing the entire landscape design—from
sustainable recommendations for the ideal site location to grading, a greywater
system, indigenous plants, and more. 




FINDING THE PERFECT SPOT

Rendering of Santa Lucia Preserve project. Courtesy of Munden Fry Landscape
Associates.

Determining the site location wasn’t a siloed experience. Open collaboration
between the two firms enabled exploration and finalizing the ideal location for
the building in the surrounding landscape. Having previously completed work on a
Living Building Challenge for Silver Oak Winery, MFLA provided important
insights to the project. While Feldman Architecture modeled and generated
drawings in Autodesk Revit, CAD files were easily exported for MFLA to pick up
and work on the design in AutoCAD. 

“We had a really great process sketching and developing ideas together and
exchanging them in AutoCAD,” says James Munden, partner, MFLA. “As things
progressed, we got more and more excited about the idea of really pushing the
boundaries of what this project could be.” 




EMBRACING SUSTAINABILITY

Entrance to Santa Lucia Preserve Project. Courtesy of Munden Fry Landscape
Associates.

For Munden, thinking sustainably for landscape design comes down to “good design
sense.” Every aspect of the design, materials, and energy should be put into
consideration. By keeping the soil on site for restoration instead of hauling it
away, the embodied carbon is reduced in that one change alone.  

But there are also much bigger challenges that come along with Living Building
Challenge parameters for certification. Despite a well on the property, it is
not counted as a water source. Due to California’s historic droughts and dry
spells, the residence will require two 20,000-gallon tanks above ground which
will serve the primary irrigation needs of the project.  

The Living Building Challenge requires zero use of any municipal water for
irrigation purposes to meet their certification requirements. Four additional
underground tanks work in combination with these two tanks for a greywater
system that reduces potable water use in the house. MFLA faced these design
challenges and more with the help of AutoCAD. 


"THE HOME AND LANDSCAPE ARE VERY MUCH TIED PHYSICALLY AND VISUALLY TO THE
NATURAL CONTOURING OF THE LAND. LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE HAD TO WORK WELL
TOGETHER TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE SITE’S NATURAL CHARACTERISTICS, THE
VIEWS, AND MEET THE SUSTAINABLE GOALS."

- James Munden, Partner, Munden Fry Landscape Associates


EVALUATING THE SITE WITH AUTOCAD

Tree protection plan in AutoCAD. Courtesy of Munden Fry Landscape Associates.

When the MFLA team first embarked on the Santa Lucia Preserve project, an
arborist identified all the trees and shared a “map of trees” in AutoCAD. A
civil engineering surveyor also provided more specific information for the firm
to evaluate the site location, considering the incredible views and grading due
to a steep hillside. All the information was overlayed in AutoCAD for a full
view to identify and preserve as many trees as possible. 

“With the information from the arborist and the surveyor in AutoCAD, we could
start looking at the site in depth,” says Ambrose Luk, senior design associate,
MFLA. “We use the offset tool in AutoCAD to draw the boundaries and identify
tree protection zones. We also relied on AutoCAD to trace different alignments
for the road and zoning for the driveway to make sure a fire truck can move
through it.” 


"WITH AUTOCAD, WE CAN LAYER EVERYTHING FOR A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW, WHICH IS
ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESSFUL DESIGNS. FOR THIS SITE, WE HAVE TREES TO PROTECT WHILE
DESIGNING AROUND A VERY STEEP SLOPE. WE HAD TO CONSIDER HOW TO BURY AND INSTALL
LARGE WATER TANKS. ALL OF US—INCLUDING THE ARCHITECTS AND CONSULTANTS—COULD WORK
TOGETHER TO IDENTIFY THE BEST LOCATIONS."

- Ambrose Luk, Senior Design Associate, Munden Fry Landscape Associates


USING AUTOCAD ACROSS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS

Exterior of Santa Lucia Preserve project. Courtesy of Munden Fry Landscape
Associates.

The Santa Lucia Preserve project is one of many landscape architecture projects
currently underway for MFLA. With AutoCAD as their main design tool, they can
dream and deliver a wide range of upcoming projects—from personal residences to
an urban housing project in the Western Edition of San Francisco with just over
2.5 acres of open space and the Ocean Beach Climate Change Adaptation Project,
led by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. 

“AutoCAD is one of the most versatile tools you can use to communicate your
design with precision,” Luk says. “In landscape, we work with so many different
scales. We might need to draw details for a small bench or work on a master plan
that covers large acreage. With AutoCAD, everything is scalable and seamless,
from the tiniest detail to the macro scale. For a landscape designer, this is
very powerful.” 


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