An animated design diagram uses blue ‘flow’ lines to visualize visitor movement and circulation through the project site, highlighting site planning, user experience, and spatial interaction.

A moment of arrival.
Reclaimed stone and gentle curves transform an everyday route into a place of memory and celebration.

Athletic Fields
Gateway Landscape

Springfield, PA

Located along a primary route to the school's athletic fields, this gateway landscape transforms a familiar passage into a place that celebrates both movement and memory.

Studio Edition was tasked with designing a gateway using stones salvaged from a former school building, including keystones, datestones, and fragments of a demolished entrance arch. Reimagined within a new landscape setting, these materials reconnect the site to the school's history while becoming part of students' daily routines.

  • Client: Springfield High School
    Collaborator: CID Group LLC
    Scope: Concept Design, Construction Observation
    Status: Completed, 2022
    Size: ~6,000 SF

Existing reclaimed stone site visit photos animated with simple white outline overlays in a journal-style format, highlighting material texture, site context, and design inspiration.

Design Process

Following our initial site visit with the client group and masonry contractor, we began by mapping circulation patterns across the site, identifying points of entry, moments of pause, and key sightlines to define the gateway's role within the broader campus landscape. This helped shape the project not simply as a passage, but as a subtle moment of arrival along a well-traveled route.

The design evolved into two gently curving stone walls that guide movement while maintaining an open and welcoming character. Their form helps orient visitors, reinforce a sense of place, and bring the reclaimed stonework into closer view.

By giving historic materials a new role within the landscape, the project connects past and present. The result is a gateway that supports daily movement while inviting moments of reflection along the way.

Animated design sketches illustrate three thematic approaches and potential iterations, drawn in minimal black ink on trace paper with neon orange highlights showing scale figures in plan view.
A hand sketch in minimal black ink on blue grid sketch paper showing reclaimed stone dimensions, emphasizing craftsmanship, material detail, and thoughtful landscape design.
A simple animated design diagram illustrates the prototyping process for a small gateway landscape stone wall, showcasing thoughtful design development and material exploration
design diagram shows two curves create a invitation to visitors
design diagram shows two curves create a invitation to visitors "sense of place"
design diagram shows where memory meets movement, A gateway of reclaimed stones and Everyday moments.

As the project moved from drawing to construction, the wall geometry was refined to respond to site conditions and methods of assembly. We are especially grateful to the masonry contractor, whose careful integration of new and reclaimed stone helped carry the design from concept to completion.

Stone wall under construction, with construction tools and scattered stones in the foreground.

Through reclaimed stone and gentle curves, a familiar route takes on new meaning, connecting everyday movement with the history of the campus.

a minimal illustrated site plan with blue outlines and simple legend showcasing a proposed gateway landscape

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