Landscape architecture involves designing outdoor public spaces and structures to achieve environmental, social, and aesthetic goals. It requires understanding existing site conditions and designing interventions to produce desired outcomes. A landscape architect's work can range from public parks and corporate campuses to residential estates and reclamation of degraded lands. They work with both hard structures and soft plantings while promoting ecological sustainability, especially by making valuable contributions during initial site planning.

2. 01

3. Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor public areas,
landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental,
social-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic
investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions
and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions that will
produce the desired outcome. A practitioner in the profession of
landscape architecture is called a Landscape Architect.
What does landscape architect
do?
The activities of a landscape architect
can range from the creation of public
parks and parkways to site planning for
campuses and corporate office parks,
from the design of residential estates to
the design of civil infrastructure and the
management of large wilderness areas
or reclamation of degraded landscapes
such as mines or landfills. Landscape
architects work on all types of structures
and external space - large or
small, urban, suburban and rural, and
with "hard" (built) and "soft" (planted)
materials, while integrating
ecological sustainability. The most
valuable contribution can be made at the 02

4. 03
Name:
Marcus Tan
Age:
32
Started working at the
company 6 years ago
as a contractor.
Started to do both
being a contractor and
a Landscape Architect
as a group for about 3-
5 years ago
It’s a family business
Firm:
URBANiS
Work:
Landscape
Architect
The company’s finished projects
Residential Community
&Condominium Project
Resort & Hospitalities
Mixed used &Commercial Development

5. 04
Q&A with Marcus Tan
How did you start up a company?
= “we started of as landscape contractors,
and currently we diversify during the 6
years and we did design as well so we are
both consultants and contractors”
Do you appreciate working
as a landscape architect?
(knowing that this is a
family business) and is it
more pressure to work
there?
= “I think it was sort of like
a brainwash when you’re a
young kid, my dad used to
bring me to construction
sites and I think that is
where I got the
appreciation for landscape
and also a bit of
construction. Obviously
there is a bit of pressure
because family has a
business of the same
certain level and I think I
coped with it pretty well
In terms of design, tell us about the
moment you decided that this is where
you want to go. And how did you start
doing it?
=“I guess starting your job as a contractor
in the early years we decided to just try a
bit of design and when you are doing the
projects we tend to familiarize yourself
with all the latest design as well and we
thought we can also do just as well as
what these people can do so what I
decided to do is that I form a partnership
with few other landscape architects” “I
think that landscape architecture has
played a very significant part nowadays”