Ruderal collaborated with local experts and nursery managers to develop species mixes to replace the monocultural plantings of Mtatsminda's south slope, near the village of Okrokana. This project is the first phase of a four-year plan to rehabilitate the Mtatsminda Urban Forest.
Veli is a 17-hectare arts and hospitality campus in historic Bakurtsikhe, Kakheti, a region famous for winemaking. The site includes a 19th-century vineyard estate, a former agricultural-technical college, and a landmark cypress allee. The new campus program begins with a rich landscape terrain that integrates a boutique hotel, a farm-to-table restaurant, an agricultural center, an artist residency, and a library.
The Vital Bosque is a landscape garden that unites a business center with a private residence. The landscape design for this site must both respond to the functional, operational needs of the complex and create a unique environment of shelter, contemplation, recreation, rejuvenation, and hospitality for the residents.
Bigger Darby is a land-use proposal for the 84 square mile territory governed by Big Darby Accord in Central Ohio. The project is an alternative, landscape-based approach to contemporary watershed planning that enhances the vernacular landscapes of the Big Darby region, improves the health of the watershed, and provides new development opportunities.
Beta Laydown is a site work articulating surplus capacity within a mineral reclamation system. In Beta, the reciprocity between slow, geological processes of evaporation mining is linked to the exceptional velocities of land-speed trials.
Art Villa Garikula is an international artist residency located in the Tedzami River Valley in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia. Garikula hosts the Fest I Nova festival, dedicated to Brothers Kirill and Ilia Zdanevich, two of Georgia's leading 20th-century avant-garde artists. Ruderal's master plan includes the preservation and reinterpretation of the landscape and architecture, additional parking and vehicle circulation, and siting new residences, exhibition spaces and workshops.
The Salt Mountain Disturbance, exhibited at Artisterium in Tbilisi, drew from field research on the vegetation and substrates of a salt stockpile site in Columbus. Through subtle grading changes and vegetation management, Salt Mountain converts what was a hazardous surplus—road salt—and channels it into a striking urban landscape of mineral gradients and salt-tolerant ruderal species.
A gateway to a unique cultural and ecological landscape including outdoor dining, interpretive trails, and a tourist service center.