OUR STORY.

SCLA was established in 2022 by a like-minded group of passionate design driven Landscape Architect in Dubai with a simple mission:
"Restore and create long-lasting connections with landscape to enrich and improve people's lives"
Since the establishment of SCLA in 2022, our growth to date has seen us go from a small start-up, to one of the leading Landscape Studios in the region. Our landscape led values, unique design process and commitment to our mission statement has become the blueprint for the Studio’s success and has resulted in the creation of truly world class landscape destinations throughout the GCC.

2019/20

COVID-19.

Covid-19 is first discovered in late 2019 and quickly spreads on a global scale.

Cities quickly become deserted as people across the world are forced into strict lockdowns. We subsequently lost the connection the one thing most people didn't even realise was so important, landscape!
2021

GLOBAL LOCKDOWN.

As the global lockdown continues to restrict people’s access to landscape, everyday spaces such as parks, streetscapes, playgrounds etc become inaccessible.

This has a major impact on people and reinforces the necessity for access to green space which we, as Landscape Architects, are ultimately responsible for creating.
2022

SCLA FOUNDED.

SCLA is established in 2022 by a group of like-minded Landscape Architects
with a strong purpose and goal.

We aim to improve people’s day-to day life experiences through exceptional landscape design and universal access to green space. We set in place a bold growth plan for the coming years and set bout realising it.
2023

BRAND ESTABLISMENT.

As we enter our second year of operations, we continue to build the team and create our studio’s DNA.

We start to work on larger and more complex landscape projects
which allow us to implement our unique design process and start to comprehensively fulfil our mission statement.
2024

SCLA GROWTH.

Fast forward to 2024 and SCLA has a team of thirty five Design and Technical staff who have delivered more than forty projects collaborating with some of the leading Architects and Developers on an international scale.

We deliver projects with meaning and purpose which are true to our values.

OUR VALUES.

Our studio values are ultimately shaped by who we are: Passionate Designers.

The team at SCLA come from backgrounds where landscape has defined us as who we are and ultimately led us all to becoming Landscape Architects. Our collective love and appreciation of landscape has defined the values of our Studio and dictates how we work as Design Professionals and operate as a Studio. Our studio values are embedded in our design process and studio DNA and have a distinct influence on the design of all SCLA projects and the creative environment and culture we are creating as our studio continues to grow.

WELLNESS.

WELLNESS.

On almost every project, the landscape often becomes the "sanctuary", a place for people to escape and enjoy a moment of calm, reflection or serenity.

At SCLA, we ensure every project we design has wellness at the core, whether on an active or passive basis. We understand how the concept of Wellness has become an engrained in people's lives and we see access to green, space and landscape as a fundamental requirement to achieving all round wellness.

We also understand the importance of Wellness in our studio and aim to provide an inclusive, supportive and comfortable environment for our amazing team to thrive.
PEOPLE.

PEOPLE.

We strongly feel that the success of a project is understanding who the end user will be and how they will engage and connect with the Landscape. As creative landscape designers Dubai, we passionately believe that the most successful spaces allow people of all ages to connect with them and come together as one. Our projects seek to promote inclusion and aim to foster a sense of community and bring people together.

The people who create the spaces are just as important to us as the people who use them, at SCLA we place a huge degree of value on our people as the creative driving force behind our visionary design and success.
TEAMWORK.

TEAMWORK.

We emphasis a huge degree of value on the importance of Teamwork both within our Studio but also how we collaborate with external organizations. Our Landscape design solutions require design collaboration with multiple disciplines and we pride ourselves on being pro-active and forward thinking on leading this process.

Our design studio is focused on providing a collaborative, inclusive and design led environment for our team whereby we work as one to arrive at the best design solution which is right for the project and Client.
NATURE.

NATURE.

Nature has had a huge influence on the team at SCLA and one way or another, we've all had meaningful interactions with Nature at some stage of our existence which heavily influenced us becoming Landscape Architects. We understand the importance of Nature and the huge impact it has upon people's day to day experiences with within the natural and built environment.

One of our main goals at SCLA is to allow every project to either add to, and compliment existing nature, or create new Nature for both our project and the wider contextual landscape that interfaces our project.
FUN.

FUN.

We're a group of young and energetic designers at SCLA who aim to have as much fun designing our projects as those who use them. We take a huge amount of pleasure in exploring unique design measures to inject fun into our schemes regardless of the project typology or whether they'll be used by adults or children.

We're lucky to find ourselves in a design industry where our creativity has no limits. We enjoy working with Clients and Architects who challenge us, and for us, every project should be fun and bring joy, smiles and happiness to all those who engage with what we design.
CREATIVITY.

CREATIVITY.

This is arguably our most important value and what we feel differentiates us from the other Landscape Architects out there. As designers, creativity is central to what we do and informs the way we work at all stages of the project lifecycle.

As part of our commitment to creativity, we have developed a bespoke design process which is unique to SCLA and allows us to work as a collective to develop our landscape visions on projects whilst pushing the realms of creativity.

OUR COLLABORATORS.