Firms of Florida - Prosser

Jacksonville, Florida
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Legacy Walk and the Mori Hosseini Student Union at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida
As the campus planner, integrating the facility needs of the institution while creating an outstanding student experience is one of the primary roles we have provided. Our team envisioned a revitalized pedestrian promenade along with a new campus quadrangle as a key to advancing the university's mission. Legacy Walk is a tree lined pedestrian linkage that includes plaza spaces for students to study, dine, and congregate as well as a plaza that chronicles the history of flight. The Mori Hosseini Student Center is the heart of the renewed campus experience with a multi-tiered water garden to sustainably address stormwater quality and volume.

UF Health North Campus, Jacksonville, Florida
The landscape architecture at the north campus is based on three primary principles: implement a solution that speaks to notion of place, create an unrivaled patient and staff experience, and infuse the design contemporary queues established in the architecture. These mandates are the basis for the design of the courtyard that marries the hospital with the outpatient/emergency department. Utilizing the lines in the architecture, as well as superimposing the City of Jacksonville's central business district's grid network of streets as a primary form giver, the courtyard is a place for respite, conversation, and solitude. Water features, a bamboo garden, and "lounge lawn" work together complement the architecture, while creating an immersive outdoor environment.

Durbin Park Plaza, St. Johns, Florida

 
Drawing from design lessons at Paley Park and Greenacre Park, Durbin Park Plaza is a destination space supporting leisure and dining. The client wanted to create a space that supported the brand of the overall mixed-use development, while mitigating the challenges of traffic noise on adjacent streets. We envisioned this space as both an enclave and a visual icon utilizing lighting, water, plantings, and human interaction to create a signature experience.

Durbin Park Plaza, St. Johns, Florida
Drawing from design lessons at Paley Park and Greenacre Park, Durbin Park Plaza is a destination space supporting leisure and dining. The client wanted to create a space that supported the brand of the overall mixed-use development, while mitigating the challenges of traffic noise on adjacent streets. We envisioned this space as both an enclave and a visual icon utilizing lighting, water, plantings, and human interaction to create a signature experience.

The National POW/MIA Memorial and Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
The symbol honoring Prisoners of War and those Missing in Action was born in Northeast Florida, the location identified for the future national memorial and museum dedicated to these heroes. The design carefully integrates an array of elements that utilize orientation, shade and shadow, and spatial arrangements to pay tribute to those that served, honor families, educate, and solicit an emotional response from visitors of the memorial and museum. This award-winning design will be a national destination functioning as a park and museum, with strong references to the nation's capital, the plight of our servicemen and women and the enormity of those still missing. Among the many design elements, the project integrates a large projection wall that scrolls the "intangible" names of those missing across sheets of glass. Names of significant others are electronically linked to visitors in a way that allows projected names to follow family members/friends throughout the complex. Prosser also linked the design to National POW/MIA Day by aligning the entry spire with the museum's entrance, casting a shadow across the structure, symbolically etching the earth's position on the third Friday of September into the architecture.

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Legacy Walk and the Mori Hosseini Student Union at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida
As the campus planner, integrating the facility needs of the institution while creating an outstanding student experience is one of the primary roles we have provided. Our team envisioned a revitalized pedestrian promenade along with a new campus quadrangle as a key to advancing the university's mission. Legacy Walk is a tree lined pedestrian linkage that includes plaza spaces for students to study, dine, and congregate as well as a plaza that chronicles the history of flight. The Mori Hosseini Student Center is the heart of the renewed campus experience with a multi-tiered water garden to sustainably address stormwater quality and volume.

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UF Health North Campus, Jacksonville, Florida
The landscape architecture at the north campus is based on three primary principles: implement a solution that speaks to notion of place, create an unrivaled patient and staff experience, and infuse the design contemporary queues established in the architecture. These mandates are the basis for the design of the courtyard that marries the hospital with the outpatient/emergency department. Utilizing the lines in the architecture, as well as superimposing the City of Jacksonville's central business district's grid network of streets as a primary form giver, the courtyard is a place for respite, conversation, and solitude. Water features, a bamboo garden, and "lounge lawn" work together complement the architecture, while creating an immersive outdoor environment.

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Durbin Park Plaza, St. Johns, Florida
Drawing from design lessons at Paley Park and Greenacre Park, Durbin Park Plaza is a destination space supporting leisure and dining. The client wanted to create a space that supported the brand of the overall mixed-use development, while mitigating the challenges of traffic noise on adjacent streets. We envisioned this space as both an enclave and a visual icon utilizing lighting, water, plantings, and human interaction to create a signature experience.

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Durbin Park Plaza, St. Johns, Florida
Drawing from design lessons at Paley Park and Greenacre Park, Durbin Park Plaza is a destination space supporting leisure and dining. The client wanted to create a space that supported the brand of the overall mixed-use development, while mitigating the challenges of traffic noise on adjacent streets. We envisioned this space as both an enclave and a visual icon utilizing lighting, water, plantings, and human interaction to create a signature experience.

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The National POW/MIA Memorial and Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
The symbol honoring Prisoners of War and those Missing in Action was born in Northeast Florida, the location identified for the future national memorial and museum dedicated to these heroes. The design carefully integrates an array of elements that utilize orientation, shade and shadow, and spatial arrangements to pay tribute to those that served, honor families, educate, and solicit an emotional response from visitors of the memorial and museum. This award-winning design will be a national destination functioning as a park and museum, with strong references to the nation's capital, the plight of our servicemen and women and the enormity of those still missing. Among the many design elements, the project integrates a large projection wall that scrolls the "intangible" names of those missing across sheets of glass. Names of significant others are electronically linked to visitors in a way that allows projected names to follow family members/friends throughout the complex. Prosser also linked the design to National POW/MIA Day by aligning the entry spire with the museum's entrance, casting a shadow across the structure, symbolically etching the earth's position on the third Friday of September into the architecture.

For us, landscape architecture is the synthesis of design, planning, engineering, and technology executed through a collaborative process involving the professional, client, and a varying array of stakeholders. For more than 35 years, Prosser has practiced along these lines embracing this blend as part of its core values. This mantra speaks heavily to the notion of a multi-disciplinary firm, which is what and who we are. We offer landscape architecture, civil engineering, transportation engineering, architecture, and graphic design with a client-centric focus and a "think tank" approach. Prosser's five principals encourage our 58 employees to recognize the value and significance of creative thought in all we do without losing sight of the primary tenet aimed at ensuring those ideas can be implemented.

Editor's Note: With the ASLA annual meeting and EXPO in Miami canceled this year due to safety concerns amid the COVID-19 health pandemic, LASN still wanted to highlight the landscape architectural work of firms from the southeast region. LASN asked the firms to send us a short biographical profile, plus photography from selected projects, with a brief description of the design work for each project. We let the firms speak for themselves in their profiles and in describing the projects, although some editing was required because of space restraints and not all photography and projects could be included. Thank you, firms of Florida and Alabama for participating!

As seen in LASN magazine, September 2020.

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