Overview
Hill Studio is a firm of architects, landscape architects, and planners, with expertise in community planning, town and urban design, housing, master planning, and historic preservation. Hill Studio involves our clients as participating members of our diversified project team to produce results. We have won awards with our clients from numerous local and international professional societies for our uniquely-tailored designs and creative approaches to projects. Since 1988, we have been involved in over 1,800 projects, serving in both lead and team-member roles. Our work includes contracts with local governments, and state and federal agencies, as well as private individuals, business, and organizations.
The firm's areas of specialization include the following:
Community Planning
Hill Studio provides expertise in community development, comprehensive planning, land use and zoning. Our skilled, professional planners and designers work with local governments, community groups, and private property owners to undertake a diversity of planning projects, including town, city and county-wide plans, downtown revitalization plans, neighborhood plans, and land use/zoning studies.
Landscape Architecture
Hill Studio's landscape architects design quality projects, facilities and master plans for land development and streetscapes. Our services range from schematic design to construction documents and administration. Our landscape architecture projects include trails, planned communities, business parks, college campuses and commercial developments, recreational facilities and public buildings. We specialize in creating special and unique community places and in integrating responsible environmental design into our projects.
Architecture
Hill Studio excels in residential, commercial, and institutional architecture. Our projects include designs for resorts, municipal facilities, community centers, schools, multi-family housing, visitor centers, amphitheaters, downtown plazas and private residences. We specialize in the adaptive reuse of older buildings and design creative projects working with limited budgets.
Historic Preservation
Hill Studio offers technical preservation and architectural history services. We make a special effort to design our projects and plans by drawing from the existing community context and architecture as well as its history. Our services include historic inventories and documentation, National Register nominations, Section 106 review, restoration, adaptive reuse, and historic tax credit applications and assistance.
Sustainable Design
Hill Studio's planners, architects, and landscape architects are committed to incorporating sustainable design principles into every project that we undertake. Since our firm's inception, we have successfully integrated responsible, sensitive environmental practices into our designs. Our designers include LEED Accredited Professionals and others experienced in EarthCraft construction, alternative energy, green materials, and sustainable building practices and technologies. Our diverse in-house technical capabilities provide a broad knowledge of various disciplines, allowing quality collaboration and creativity in order to achieve environmentally appropriate solutions.
Community Design
Hill Studio successfully integrates our expertise in planning, architecture and landscape architecture to achieve quality town and urban design in our projects. Many of our clients are local governments and neighborhood organizations who emphasize sensitivity to the environmental and architectural context for new development. In established communities, we take special care in designing new development that enhances existing development, builds consensus among interests, and provides design guidance for future development. Several of our downtown master plans and community revitalization projects have won professional awards.
Land Development
Hill Studio works with government agencies, community organizations and private developers to evaluate land development opportunities and prepare master plans and construction documents for site specific and planned unit industrial, commercial, residential and recreational developments. Our services include site analysis, development alternatives, project/site design, and architectural illustrations of the project. We work with our clients to help them visualize sustainable land development concepts and in many cases, assist them with implementation strategies and funding applications.
Park and Environmental Planning
Hill Studio's projects have included the design and construction of various local, regional and national parks. Hill Studio emphasizes the natural patterns of the site in these designs, which are as cost-effective as environmentally sensitive. Our firm also assists in environmental planning for projects, including resource identification and impact analysis.
Interpretive Planning and Graphic Design
Hill Studio offers interpretive planning for cultural and recreational facilities. Our interpretive specialists assist clients in creating effective public exhibits and communication strategies for conveying key messages and themes. We also offer graphic design services and comprehensive signage programs.