ABOUT
Scharen Design Studio is a landscape architecture and planning firm that provides design services for residential, commercial, and public clients.​ The studio's mission is to create places that are culturally relevant, environmentally responsible, and a delight to inhabit.
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After years of working with cultural landscapes, many situated in environmentally sensitive areas, the idea formed to create a studio that nurtures both cultural and biological aspects of place. Our studio works on restoring ecological health and expressing landscape stories that may have been unheard or neglected for years. We create habitat for biodiversity and habitat for humans to connect to their heritage and community. We come to every project in a spirit of collaboration and curiosity. SDS is a Certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE) in the State of Oregon, No.: 14398
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Services Include
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Landscape Architecture: Parks, Public Spaces, Streetscapes, Open Spaces & Trails, Playgrounds, Campuses
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Landscape Rehabilitation for historic and cultural landscapes
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Planting design for climate-adapted gardens
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Planning: Master Plans, Cultural Landscape Reports; Resource Studies; Heritage Plans
Shelby Scharen
PRINCIPAL
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Shelby Scharen, RLA, ASLA, is a licensed landscape architect (OR LA0934) with over ten years of professional experience. Her work focuses on planning and design for residential and public places. From large-scale master plans, historic rehabilitations, and intimate gardens, her designs emphasize the integration of culture and ecology into vibrant landscapes that work as living systems.
Shelby has received awards for her work at Indian Mounds Regional Park in St Paul, Minnesota; Voyageurs National Park; and has served on the executive board of the Oregon ASLA. Shelby has a B.A. in Anthropology and graduate degrees in Landscape Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Colorado.