We are excited to welcome the award-winning Shma as a new sponsor of World Landscape Architecture (WLA). This partnership will aid WLA’s mission to provide knowledge and championing the value of landscape architecture. It is through the support of design firms like Shma that we can continue to showcase innovative projects and landscape architecture thought leadership to the world.
Shma is a leading international design firm focused in landscape architecture and urban design. Founded in 2007 by three directors, Yossapon Boonsom, Prapan Napawongdee, and Namchai Saensupha, the firm is based in Bangkok, Thailand.
We are a multidisciplinary collective of landscape architects, horticulturists, construction managers, technicians, researchers, and urban designers who share the same vision of creating better environments and advancing sustainability through design. Shma brings together young professionals full of creative energy, passion, and commitment to delivering works of the highest quality.
The name ‘Shma’ means Earth, and we believe in the power of landscape architecture to transform our lives and our world. We put life into design and design into life to enable change for the well-being of people, places, and the planet.
Our progress and process-driven approach welds knowledge with passion and conscience to break boundaries and bridge possibilities of a better Earth of the future, where inclusivity, sustainability, and resilience abound.
Shma’s works seek simplicity in strategies and approaches that carefully respond to the complexity and diversity of both natural and human ecologies, including climate, topography, history, culture, and social phenomena. Each design emerges from the unique context of its site, revealing a distinct identity in every project.
Shma provides consultancy services in landscape architecture and urban design. The firm has extensive experience in numerous projects, both domestically and internationally, across a wide range of types and scales including residential, hospitality, institutional, commercial, public spaces, master planning, research, and experimental design.
Our design approach involves uncovering new possibilities and reinterpreting everyday territory through the exploration of innovative solutions, working comprehensively with clients and multidisciplinary teams.
Beyond aesthetic design, Shma’s work aspires to emulate the ‘growing process’ of nature, instilling every place we touch with a deeper layer of invisible beauty and value. Moreover, through rigorous research, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and active social contributions, we take the initiative to plant seeds of growth, allowing all stakeholders to share in Shma’s wealth of wisdom and value creation.
For over 18 years, we have been honored to create architectural solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations, pushing the boundaries of form and function. Our work has received numerous international design awards, inspiring us to keep moving forward. This pursuit of the greater good, from inner quality to outsized impact, is the legacy we envision to bring the world toward a better place.
Find out more about Shma at their website https://shmadesigns.com/