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Welcome to Design to share Q and A. I am Nicola and I am Irwin.

Nicola: Today, we are going to be talking about the importance of hiring a professional landscape architect.

Irwin: We feel strongly of course about hiring professionals for all aspects of the design project. Fortunately today, we are actually in the space in New York City that is quite special. It is very secluded and quite exclusive. We are also going to be meeting today the landscape architect who is working part of the space, Steven Alcanta.

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Nicola: We are here with Steven Alcanta who is a registered landscape architect and also has a master’s degree. What we are asking is what would somebody like your self, what are you trained to do exactly and how can this help the residential project?

Steven: Oh, thank you. When a residential project return to organize outer spaces and determine where different key owners should go in relation to other.

Nicola: What examples do we have here?

Steven: With the centrums the main frame is white, the face of the building is white, the client likes white flowers which change seasonally which we enforce to provide color of the architecture as well as some redecoration.

Irwin: Steven, if I want to hire someone like your self, I would like to share with I deal with, how do we find someone who is a landscape architect like yourself.

Steven: You could get most likely get referrals from other professionals group who have worked through a plan with our architect’s interior designers. There is also the professional organization in American society of landscape architects.

Irwin: I think we are going to be excited to see some of your work. Here we are looking at one of Steven’s projects. It is the New York City project and there is an inside courtyard that is very pretty. Steven is going to tell us about it

Steven: Originally, there is present in the bare bonds service chart between these two buildings. The challenge was to free the garden that would breathe the spaces and take advantage of what it offers which is mainly progress state. We are standing on the deck which is adjacent to the kitchen and dining space and the client wanted a modern overflow terrace for entertaining and working on over the garden and the space went perfectly for that and then stairs wicket and there is a diagonal pattern of lumen across it which makes the space seem larger.

Irwin: Now, I know that from the office from we are standing is a wonderful feature.

Steven: Yes, even where we are sitting inside there are series of buildings you can still hear quite a bit of street noise. One idea for the wonderful feature is they want stringed on the noises on the street. It really makes a difference.

Irwin: What I very much like about the space is while we are talking about is the railing which I feel it very simple, elegant. We are here in a traditional home with some traditional elements behind is quite clear. The railing has some very sort of temporary lines to it.

Steven: The railing is the design that it takes just very simple standard components like the done in the catalog of metal. The top row posts the whole central elements and join them up in a very simple and elegant way. What we are trying to do is heavy hand rail going down the steps has just enough support so that when you are coming down the step, you can hold it.

Irwin: Steven, tell us what are some of the trainings that you have seen in landscape architect the same.

Steven: One time, when I want to make maximum use of the space I think there is a trend to blunt beautiful pavements of the most elegant materials.

Irwin: Do you feel that it is also a kind of contemporary fill like consider sand or Asian style gardens. You find that deck is becoming sort of more fashionable now?

Steven: I think that is happening also. There is a sense of wanting to be free from the hectic pace of the city. I think simple designs are just tempted complement the architecture rather than complete repair have come more popular.

Nicola: We are here on the terrace which Steven also designed and actually Steven is a published author. I think you have written two books. Is that correct?

Steven: Yes, I have written two books that were surveys of landscape architect projects, innovative design solutions and landscape architecture and contemporary settlements landscape architecture and finishing of both books about three rooms some more on roof gardens and it includes examples from Europe and from North America. A discreet program which is similar to the other one but much more an intimate. It is just bedroom terrace just for the client and the paving is slate which has a rich green color with two simple planners with Japanese crab apples which are very hardy and there are simple water features which is very nice to just a little pool of water. It is a very simple and nice apartment.

Irwin: Steven, thank you for joining us. That was great and we enjoyed learning about what you have done here. I think we have decided to get a landscape architect.

Steven: Great! I would be delighted to work with you. Thank you so much for having me.

Thank you for watching Design to share Q and A. I am Nicola and I am Irwin.

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