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In progress toward the fulfillment of their 2022 Master Plan, Ethnos360 hired Heidt and Depth to assist in planning and developing guidelines for updated signage, landscaping, and lighting to help visitors, delivery personnel, and residents alike navigate their hilly, woodland campus more intuitively. Through the guidelines, Ethnos360 also hopes to help these users of their campus feel more welcome on campus and more deeply understand the campus's mission, vision, and brand.

Since it was founded in 1899, ZLS has built a reputation across northeast Denver for providing high-quality and Christ-centered K-8 education. Due to safety hazards and a lack of variety of activities, ZLS developed a rebuilt Kindergarten-8th Grade playground that fulfills the school's core value of providing "a high-quality Christ-centered education." We provided conceptual design and owner's representation on the project.

Ethnos360 is a Christian missionary agency that exists to share the Bible with corners of the world that it has never been. Their Training Center in Missouri provides a hands-on learning experience for new missionaries. Included in the curriculum are church planting, developing an alphabet for a language that does not have one, and life skills for living in remote parts of the world: off-grid technologies, simple living, agriculture, and more. Heidt and Depth provided site planning services and landscape architecture design guidelines for EMI in their development of a new master plan for the campus.

Kansas City has historically been divided by many things, including race, politics, income, and geography. The Parade of Hearts in Kansas City is an exhibition designed to unite people by bringing them together in public spaces over a common interest: art. We worked with Element Ten to bring their piece - a narrative of division and coming together told through an abstract neon-sign-like sculpture - to fruition. Photo credit: Element Ten

Providence Network provides many resources to those in need including transitional and affordable housing, mental health services, and spiritual resources. Through our CPF pilot grant in 2023, we provided funding to assist Providence Network with the construction of a therapeutic garden for domestic violence survivors. Photo credit: Providence Network (Pictured: The site before construction.)

Blue Spruce Hideaway is a cozy garden-inspired Airbnb in the southern Denver area. In addition to site design and small-scale construction services, we also provided the following supplementary services: planning and permitting submittals, color consultation, mural design, painting, interior design.

A husband-and-wife homeowner in the arid eastern Colorado climate approached Heidt and Depth about transforming their suburban home landscape into a drought-resilient, minimal maintenance garden. Entertaining, enhancing curb appeal, and creating garden spaces that will survive the wear and tear of a large, playful dog are also all high-priority needs for this client. In response, we developed a design that (1) expands the surface area of usable contiguous lawn for family yard games, such as croquet, yet reduces overall total surface area of lawn to reduce water usage; (2) proposes swapping the existing lawn species for a different species that better handles environmental conditions and the family dog, and (3) replaces a portion of lawn area with water-saving shrubs that create an aesthetic similar to an English-style garden.

Century Site Services, a property services company whose services include landscaping and excavation, needed a planting design for a townhome complex they were renovating. We provided them with a diverse arrangement of colorful species that would withstand a highly shaded environment as well as the salts Century uses in their ice removal.

CDS approached us requesting more opportunities for kinesthetic learning for preschool students in their system with autism, cerebral palsy, speech impediments, and other developmental delays. We responded by designing two pieces of vehicle-like playground equipment. These "buses" provide dozens of new opportunities for sensory learning for students: shapes, colors, textures, sounds, tactile experiences, and settings to build friendships through creativity. We then worked with a local carpenter to build and install these pieces, one each at two preschool locations.

Lisa Drey - a psychiatric nurse practitioner, licensed professional counselor, and equine-assisted therapy candidate owns a psychiatric practice and an equine facility in the Front Range of Colorado. When she considered consolidating her services into an equine therapy ranch, she turned to Heidt and Depth. "If I’d had to hire a designer, multiple contractors, and a ranch hand, it would have required a business loan," she says. "Yet, I found all of those things and more in (Heidt and Depth)... Without (their) reliability, trustworthiness, and consistency, I never could have focused my attention on my clients while maintaining my property and making the necessary changes to it to expand my business."

Deep Ellum is a popular mixed-use district in Dallas, but it lacks adequate public space. To address this need, Design Future Dallas hosted an international design competition to gather ideas for repurposing the underutilized Crowdus Street into usable public space at the heart of the neighborhood. Our competition entry was dubbed the "best suited proposal to successfully address the neighborhood's needs" by the jury. Shortly afterward, the Deep Ellum Foundation sought and obtained funding from the City of Dallas to make our proposal and two others a reality. The result was a month-long multi-block pop-up park event - Reimagine Crowdus - which served as the first long-term experiment of Crowdus Street repurposed as usable public space. Photo credit and design-build: Studio Outside Landscape Architects

SFUCHAS is a burgeoning health sciences university located in a village of 100,000 residents in central Tanzania. It serves as a launching point for hundreds of local students each year pursuing medical careers. By equipping these students with a college education, SFUCHAS is impacting the health crisis in rural East Africa by "teaching a man to fish," as the adage goes. In partnership with EMI and local Tanzanian design staff, we developed a master plan to guide SFUCHAS is it builds out a new campus to accommodate its growing programs and student body. Photo credit: Engineering Ministries International