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Ethno Village – Reykjavik, Iceland

Ethno Village in Reykjavik, Iceland, is a free-form cultural and ecological campus. Featuring spherical traveler pods, a carnival center with a green roof, and an outdoor concert area, it offers space for festivals, retreats, and sustainable community living.

“A Cultural Landscape of Connection, Nature, and Community”

Conceptual masterplan visualization of Ethno Village with mist, spherical pods, geothermal pools, and pathways designed for cultural immersion and eco-tourism. — Ethno Village Reykjavik Cultural Landscape Vision

A Living Sanctuary in Icelandic Nature

Ethno Village is envisioned as a free-form cultural landscape where visitors can fully connect with the natural rhythms of Reykjavik. Designed for both locals and travelers, the space offers opportunities for weekend retreats, ethnic festivals, meditation and yoga classes, team-building, and cultural events.

Concept video of Ethno Village in Reykjavik, Iceland, presenting a futuristic cultural retreat with spherical eco-pods, geothermal steam, and communal gathering spaces, designed by LASD Studio.

Design Features

Spherical Traveler Pods – movable eco-pods that offer unique accommodation in harmony with the land.
Carnival Center – a main facility building with a green roof, blending architecture and ecology.
Concert & Event Area – an open-air gathering space for music, art, and community celebrations.

Sustainable Vision

The design embodies flexibility, ecological balance, and cultural storytelling. With relocatable pods and natural zoning, Ethno Village evolves over time, responding to the needs of its visitors while maintaining biodiversity and minimal impact on the land.

Global Relevance

Ethno Village reflects LASD Studio’s philosophy: creating landscapes that balance human culture with ecological continuity. It is both a destination and a living artwork — where tourism, community, and sustainability converge.

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Innovation HUB. Dusseldorf, Germany.

The Innovation HUB in Düsseldorf, Germany, is a visionary urban design project uniting landscape architecture, ecology, and digital creativity. A space for education, collaboration, and innovation dedicated to shaping a sustainable future.

Landscape design entails the creation and ornamentation of gardens, yards, grounds, parks, and other outdoor spaces. Landscape design is used to improve the appearance of buildings, public spaces, recreational places, and parks. It is a decorative art form associated with architecture, urban planning, and gardening.

Even the greatest metropolises are surrounded and penetrated by the vegetative environment that blanketed most of the Earth's continents before people began to construct. Garden design, as well as efforts to protect and promote sustainable open space in and around cities, are all attempts to keep in touch with the authentic pastoral, rural landscape. By filling open spaces in cities, gardens and created landscapes establish a continuum in space between structured cityscapes as well as the open rural landscapes outside. Furthermore, gardens and landscaped landscapes offer a unique form of chronological continuity. Structures, art, and sculptures may outlast single plants, but plants continuously grow and transform to give a continuous temporal dimension that static buildings and artwork cannot.

Design is a significant element of landscape architecture's profession, although it is by no means all of it. Landscape architecture encompasses planning and design, plan outlines, master planning, urban design, and environmental planning, and is defined as "the art of organizing land and the items on it for human use and enjoyment."

The majority of the population is aware of how to keep their gardens and landscapes in good shape by watering the plants and pruning the shrubs and trees. However, not everyone understands how to properly plant their outside areas. Wouldn't it be good to be able to stare out your living room window upon something lovely and fresh-looking? An abstract landscape might be the answer if your fantasy garden has natural lines, great contrast, and vivid colors. This landscaping style is suitable for almost any home, regardless of its design.

For this particular kind of landscape architecture, curvilinear shapes are highly suggested. A softer look is obtained this way rather than harsh lines. However, using squares and triangles in an abstract garden scene is still permissible.

Abstract landscape allows nature to guide you in the placement of hedges, paths, and flowerbeds in an area to balance the other aspects.

There's no need to be concerned about every element being symmetrical. True, when one plans a garden based on symmetry, a balanced, albeit classic, the appearance will be obtained. Traditional isn't what we're striving for with an abstract garden scene. As a result, you must think outside the box and employ asymmetry.

Forget about having hedges that are identical on both sides. Why don't we put one on the left that's tall and one on the right that's short? There's nothing wrong with trying out fresh ideas for landscaping. Instead of having a single focus point in the center, asymmetry allows each corner of the land to be distinct.

An abstract landscape allows a more engaging and captivating atmosphere to everybody since it is current and fresh. There are no restrictions or guidelines. You may use your imagination and create it however you like. You're also urged to play with color combinations to make each element stand out.

A lot of time and work will go into planning and constructing an abstract landscape, when it comes to organization, it's preferable to be a little more laid-back. After all, we're trying for an abstract appearance here. Consider being in a forest where the trees and flowers are not planted in a straight line but rather in random spots. They are dispersed and separated at random distances from one another.

It's also a good idea to use flowers and plants that appear to be unkempt and unruly. This will give your landscape a more natural feel.

Abstract landscape design is all about freedom of expression!

LASD Studio works across garden design, landscape architecture, urban design, and regional landscape design. Our goal is to live in balance with nature. With landscape design, we have to close the cycle of clean water, fresh air, ready to plant soil, and other vital resources for the next generation.

The Innovation Hub will educate, motivate, inspire, develop, test and create a final product to make our planet a better place to improve people's lives. The innovation space intends to establish a creative environment for enthusiastic and full of potential people to develop their ideas to the next level. Digital innovation hub Düsseldorf

Our landscape, ecology, civilization, and the future of the planet are at risk. We aim to create, shape, and restore the landscape and urban environments for the sustainable continuation of life on our planet. Our goal is to live in balance with nature and provide clean water, air, soil resources for the next generation.

We cannot achieve our goal alone. Whether you are an individual, commercial business, an NGO, or governmental institution, you are welcome to join our mission.

Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

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Shemagh. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The Shemagh Project in Abu Dhabi is a holistic urban design that mitigates the urban heat island effect. Featuring urban coolers, pavilions, permeable pavements, and reflective surfaces, it creates healthier, cooler, and more livable public spaces.

The Shemagh Project is a holistic approach towards mitigating the urban heat island effect, providing comfort to public. The Shemagh Project proposes to target the urban heat island effect by active and passive design approaches. An active part of the design includes the Urban Cooler that directly catches CO2, cleans the air of hazardous chemicals, viruses and bacteria, and significantly cools down the air; and pavilions that reduce UV and IR solar radiation, providing shade from the sun, serve as refreshing areas for the public, and providing useful urban facilities such as restrooms, storage, etc.

The passive part of the design involves using special coatings for the surrounding parking areas, as well as permeable pavement to increase the albedo ratio. The active part of the design project to lower air temperature in a range from 7 to 13 °C locally, depending on the urban cooler setup, while the passive design will reduce surface heat in the range of 5-12 °C. The holistic combination of active and passive approaches allows us to predict that we will be able to cool down the current area to about 13-16 °C from the original site under the no-wind urban environment condition.

The Shemagh Project is replicable and adjustable for other locations across the city. The establishment of a Shemagh Grid around the city center will create more powerful conditions of mitigating the urban heat island effect of the city and reduce the temperature to the level of ‘moderate heat stress’ and ‘no thermal stress’. We propose that such a solution should be implemented in a walkable distance grid across the city not only to mitigate the urban heat island effect on the larger area, but also to provide vital refreshment of public spaces for urban life.

We cannot achieve our goal alone. Whether you are an individual, commercial business, an NGO, or governmental institution, you are welcome to join our mission.

Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

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Bishop Lucey Park Timeline. Cork, Ireland.

Bishop Lucey Park in Cork, Ireland, reimagined as an urban “Timeline.” This design proposal blends movement, accessibility, play, and multifunctionality into a vibrant public space that reflects community life and future city aspirations.

Timeline concept – visitors pass through the main alle and see vibrant, diverse activities and groups of people that form urban life. In a philosophical sense, this is a timeline of a human being's life. The design proposal intends to bring our community together. Bishop Lucey Park redevelopment proposal defines future achievements of unique space identity, vibrancy, mix-use, open possibilities for the future changes within the fixed grid that allows residents, visitors, tourism, and business attraction. The ‘Timeline’ design proposal combines recommendations and principles of The City Movement Strategy, The Cork City Council Corporate Plan, and Cork City Development Plan.

The ‘Timeline’ design proposal principles are:

1. Movement and Accessibility;

2. Play – Relax – Enjoy, the place will serve the needs of the vibrant community;

3. Multifunctionality for the all-ages, diverse interests, as well as for people with physical abilities;

4. Security of space by design;

5. Form a grid that allows the evolution of the space.

We cannot achieve our goal alone. Whether you are an individual, commercial business, an NGO, or governmental institution, you are welcome to join our mission.

Life begins with you. Join our mission today.