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About
Founded in 2002 by architect Patrick Farley, Watershed is an award-winning design firm on a mission to foster healthy sustainable communities through innovative design informed by ecological principles and social consciousness. Our process strives for effective and beneficial engagement of human and natural systems with the goal of making architecture that is bioclimatic, healthful and culturally responsive. Toward this end, our approach follows ecological guideposts such that building solutions result from a holistic process that addresses and integrates the primary concerns of global and community impact, watershed and ecosystem integrity, passive energy flows, resource conservation, and the use of non-toxic, healthy materials and products. Toward this end, in spring of 2007, Watershed adopted the Living Buildings Challenge as a matter of intensifying our mission and bolstering our aspirations.
To us, good design is synonymous with “green” and as such relies upon an integrated, multi-disciplinary systems-oriented approach that is as much about the consideration for the world we are leaving future generations as it is about the performance and aesthetic quality of our projects. In the end, we simply want to make buildings that are comfortable, healthy, energy and resource-efficient, functional, durable and profitable while responding appropriately to and enhancing their surroundings - - which, for us, constitutes the essence of sustainable architecture. In our pursuit of the highest quality, we believe that the horizons of good design can only be broadened through a keen awareness of the myriad interconnections between site, climate, culture and technology, and it is this unifying sensibility that has become the touchstone of our work.
Based in Richmond, Virginia, Watershed offers a comprehensive range of integrated design services including architecture, landscape and master planning. Our practice is primarily regional and includes residential, light commercial and cultural/institutional work, with an emphasis on environmental learning facilities.
What happens on the land is reflected in the water - Unknown
