We recognise that all we experience is through relationships, to place, to each other, technology and to nature. At times we withdraw from the wider environment to the security and comfort of our buildings, alternatively we may wish to extend our living space outdoors into nature or include it within our living space.

Ultimately, inside and outside of a building are not different places. No building is permanent, we are passing through the garden and how we relate to this is the legacy we leave to the future.

By building nature in and creating a guarded Eden (garden) outside, these aspects of the built environment combine to make a home or working place a living reflection of the ecology of peace and enduring security.

Buildings and built spaces offer the ability to adapt and create niches and places for nature to flourish in controllable and beneficial ways. Vegetation can be used to cool and shade as well as provide fresh food. In the highest densities of urban living, nature, given the opportunity, will provide and sustain a measurable improvement in the quality of human life.

The community environment of spaces to play, grow food, celebrate and relax are all extensions of our living space found in nature. The recognition of this is the basis of the concept and practice of Llan

User centred design is a fundamental part of our design process, incorporating the best of current human factors and human ecology science.

The more sustainable a building is, the more generations can enjoy it.

We aim to build for many generations and our thinking extends to conditions in which our grandchildren and their children may live.

Sustainability means taking the long view and our buildings incorporate this from the outset.

Llan means resilient low dependency living for the natural needs of people and communities.