What we build · Sheet B

Cast the symbol. Build what keeps it.

The piece your people gather around, and the water, drainage and planting that keep it standing. Drawn on one side of the seam, built on the other.

The symbol

Cast by hand, drawn to the inch.

The Lotus: the CAD plan in its own colours on one side of a travelling seam, the poured slab seen from the air on the other, the drawn joints meeting the poured ones at the seam.Plan · as built, from the airThe Lotus · the plan and the slabShrine platforms, mandalas & memorial groundA lotus, a cross, a star, a seal, a name and a date — drawn to the inch and cast at courtyard scale. The plan you approve is the slab you walk on.Seen at L-1 · The LotusDrawn, then struckTowne Twin, and a stamped patioCourtyards & cast patternsPoured and laid floors with the pattern struck into them, for gathering ground. The drawing is set out on the ground to the inch; the pattern is tamped into the wet concrete by hand.Seen at L-3 · Towne TwinA resident reaches into the jet of the cast basin at Towne Twin on planting day, the crowd behind her.Her hand in the waterTowne Twin · planting dayFountains & water featuresCast basins, spillways, jets and runnels.Seen at L-3 · Towne TwinGravity-fedTowne Twin · the rillAcequias & aqueductsChannels that move water with no pump and no power, laid block by block.Seen at L-3 · Towne Twin
What keeps it

Water, ground and canopy, so the symbol is still there in fifty years.

A backyard read from one LiDAR scan, shown as layers in turn: the scan, the tree stands, the ground's height, contours, spot heights, the way water runs, slope, and the design map drawn on the scan.
  1. 01Scan
  2. 02Stands
  3. 03Ground
  4. 04Contours
  5. 05Spot heights
  6. 06Water
  7. 07Slope
  8. 08Design map
LiDAR · eight layersNative Ground · the backyard, eight readingsSite mapping & ecological surveyThe lot scanned by LiDAR, then read in layers: the ground's height, contours, where the water runs and where it will not drain, slope, the stands of trees — and the plan drawn on that same scan, so what is drawn is what is there.Ask about it · Sheet COne season on: a sunflower taller than a person beside the stone-lined channel, the street's runoff held against the rock.About 200 gal/hrAlamo Heights · one season onDrainage, bioswales & stormwaterChannels that take the storm and let the caliche drink, from one curb to municipal scale.Seen at L-4 · The Bioswale
Also kept

Lawns, beds and trees, kept with no synthetics.

Final scope and price are set on site. Commissions from $10k. Every estimate is issued as a drawing set like this one, with a revision letter, so the number you hold is the number that was agreed.

What we build
The symbol, and what keeps it
Prepared by
NOONDesign ☉ Build ☉ Systems
Issue
09.2026
Studio
San AntonioAustin · By commission anywhere
Sheet
B
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