We design projects that create connection between people and place.
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. 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 explore the conditions of the landscape and seek to understand its context to the larger region, in order to realize the full potential of your project and the surrounding community. Our goal is to grow both your confidence and the productive capacity of the land you walk on. Our process is rooted in active participation 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 guides you make the best decisions possible to realize the full potential of your project. 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. We seek to uncover the potential of place and create a bridge between the context of the present and the vision for the future. See our full list of services here.
Vision
What could your landscape look like 10 years from now? How do you merge this vision with your desired quality of life? Porvenir supports 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
Our team guides the exploration process that incorporates the greater and deeper elements of a site: the ecology, geomorphology, hydrology, historical land use, as well as local culture and community. We identify how a project is nested within the greater whole to understand how it can serve and benefit the surrounding context. We plan and design the unfolding of the unique project potential. The result that follows is site specific, place based, long term design. This is our Working Concept Plan, a living, evolving guide to for the future of the land.
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. Our experience allows us to provide clarity around decision making, project costs, and possible results.
