ABOUT
Landfour Landscape Architecture designs landscapes for every type of client, site, use and budget. From a 300-square foot, urban garden for a family of four to a ten-acre botanic garden and everything in between we take a unique approach to designing your landscape.
Landfour’s philosophy isn’t wordy and our attitude isn’t exclusive. We just think that every client and every site deserves excellent design. Our approach is simple. Our goal is to create a landscape design that connects the client’s needs and the structure’s character to the site’s unique features. And get this… every project that we design is designed to meet a construction budget.
PROCESS
Creating the perfect landscape starts with a good conversation. After taking the time to get to know our clients, their lifestyle, wants, wishes, needs, personality, and budget the project goals and budget are developed. To connect the projects goals and budget with the site, the unique characteristics of the land, existing elements and the surrounding area are carefully considered. After the project has been studied the client is presented with three key pieces of information: a basic sketch of the project site and key elements, a construction budget and a design proposal. With these three elements, the client is empowered to make a sound decision in moving forward with their landscape project. Once the goals and budget are set, design begins.
PEOPLE
Cielo Sichi, the Principal Landscape Architect at Landfour Landscape Architecture has been professionally designing and building landscapes since 2003. While his primary focus has always been residential design, he has extensive experience designing and building landscapes of all types including single and multifamily residential, commercial, institutional and recreational projects.
Cielo graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2003 with a degree in Environmental Horticultural Science with a focus on landscape design and construction. Afterwards he moved to the San Francisco Bay area to work for a well-respected Design Build Landscape Firm as a Landscape Designer. Over the next eight years he performed in several different rolls for the firm including lead designer, estimator and general manager. By working on hundreds of landscape projects with the firm his skills in designing, budgeting and building landscape were developed and honed.
In 2010, he became a licensed Landscape Architect and the next year he started Landfour Landscape and has been working with clients in California, Nevada and even as far as Canada to design landscapes that meet their needs, create solutions to their landscape problems and meet their budget.
Throughout his career Cielo was asked to guest lecture on landscape and design related subjects at several colleges and universities. In 2015 he had the opportunity to teach horticulture part time at Merced College. He is currently the Department Chair of Horticulture at American River College where he teaches the Landscape Design and Construction courses.