Landscape Architecture Services

Landscape Architecture

Landscape is the fabric that knits together our built environment, transforming performance-oriented infrastructure into human-centered spaces. It also supports natural systems in our rural and urban communities through enhanced soil health, water quality, habitat, and reduction in heat island effect among numerous other benefits.


Acorn recognizes the immense value that thoughtful, site-specific landscape design brings to a project, and aims to balance engineered and natural systems across our work. Whether we’re designing a public park, private garden, stabilized shoreline or senior housing development, we bring an attention to detail and a desire to create adaptive, regionally-specific landscapes that serve our Clients’ many goals. Balancing user’s immediate needs with the overall viability and longevity of a landscape design leads to greater success across our multidisciplinary projects.


Acorn’s Landscape Studio provides a variety of design services for its public and private projects, including:

Site Layout
Site Analysis
Planning Design
Hardscape Design
Grading and Landform Design
Permitting Assistance
Land Planning
Campus and Facility Master Planning
Watershed Planning
Plant Restoriation
Shoreline Design / Stabilization (with a focus on nature-based solutions)
Site Stormwater and BMP Integration (with a focus on vegetative solutions)
Invasive Plant Management
Graphic and Project Illustration/Rendering
Construction Administration Services
Conceptual Lighting Design

Because Acorn provides in-house Landscape Architecture services, landscape and civil disciplines adopt a collaborative approach to design that fosters innovation while enhancing coordination and efficiency.

Project Examples

Some examples of landscape architecture services provided for specific projects include:

Site layout and planting design at the Watt Samaki Buddhist Temple, which incorporates various gardens, worship areas, public gathering spaces and vehicular and pedestrian circulation across a vast campus in Westbrook, Maine.
Community engagement, site, grading, planting design and detailing at Saccarappa Park, a new public park in downtown Westbrook on an existing brownfields site along the Presumpscot River.
Site layout and specification of seed mixes and native shrub and tree layouts to comply with town landscape requirements for a Waldo Community Action Partners Housing Development in West Bath.
Specification of seed mixes for revegetation and naturalization at the Long Creek Gravel Wetland at the Maine Mall in South Portland.
Coastal resiliency visualizations for the Town of Scarborough’s planning work along Route 1 / Route 9.
Trail Planning and analysis for Portland Trail's Stroudwater Connector Trail in Portland, and trail design and concept planning for the Quill Hill Trail in Dallas Plantation.

For more information about Acorn's design approach, please read on below.

Landscape Architecture Design Approach
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