We design landscapes that connect us to the places we live.
We work and live in the tropics of Central America, on land that we have designed and planted ourselves. We know the trees, the soils, and how the water moves. We are fluent in the culture and language of Latin America. It is this experience that allows us to design productive and beautiful landscapes and viable projects with our clients.
Porvenir Design facilitates a design process that balances the opportunities and constraints of the site with your needs and goals. We help you explore the conditions of the landscape and seek to understand its context to the larger region, in order to empower you to realize the full potential of the life you want to live. Our goal is to grow both your confidence and the productive capacity of the land you walk on. Our process flows from active participation and acceptance of responsibility by clients and land stewards; Porvenir Design provides mentorship and design guidance along the way.
The Landing Homestead
San Juan, Costa Rica
Finca las vegas organics
Parrita, Costa Rica
Finca luna nueva
San Isidro de Peñas Blancas, Costa Rica
finca Emilia
Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Valle Escondido Preserve
Monteverde, Costa Rica
Services
Porvenir Design helps you make the best choices possible to grow your own food, restore your watershed, and build soil. From helping you to clarify your goals, to siting infrastructure, orchards, and roads, to providing technical planting schematics, we encourage you to leverage our experience in order to accelerate the development of your home or project. See our full list of services here.
Vision
What does your landscape want to look like 10 years from now? How do you merge this vision with your desired quality of life? Porvenir begins our projects by drawing out the potential of place and people, leaving clients confident in how they can take active responsibility for the land they steward.
Plan
What practical steps are required to make this vision a reality? This is the due diligence phase of our design work that seeks to answer where, what, when and how. It is a participative process that results in a concept working plan, implementation guide, and maintenance schedules.
Work
Porvenir guides implementation oversight. This is boots on the ground; laying out orchards, training employees, sourcing plants, and monitoring progress overtime. We work side by side with your team to get a project off the ground and foundational soil, water and plant systems in the ground.
