Open spaces are under increasing pressure from many sides. Studio Vulkan seeks to gain a deeper understanding of these diverse demands as well as the contradictions that arise from countervailing expectations. Designing landscapes for us means to accept and moderate these contradictions, using the productive tension they bring about as a driver for developing new solutions. We devise strategic and experimental design languages that interpret the conditions of the site and its users in innovative and lucid terms. Our goal is to sound out designs that are at once conceptually convincing and eminently pragmatic, this approach allowing us to explore the potential of a given landscape in a direct, dynamic, and playful manner. We question the landscape, at large and small scale, in its physical as well as social context, and as atmospheric and experiential space. Apart from the confrontation with the everyday professional tasks, through our wide palette of projects, we simultaneously explore possible questions and responses that we believe are central to further developing the contemporary discourse and creating a landscape architecture able to increase human sensitivity, meaning and responsibility towards our natural and built environment.

Founded in 2014, Studio Vulkan was formed through the merger of Schweingruber Zulauf Landscape Architects and Robin Winogrond Landscape Architects. From 2014 – 2020 Robin Winogrond was one of the principals and had a relevant input into the work of the office.

Today the team of Studio Vulkan Landscape Architecture, with headquarters in Zurich and Munich, comprises around 40 professionals including around 10 different nationalities. Lukas Schweingruber and Dominik Bueckers are the main principles of the office. As a partner Jochen Soukup has his focus on integrating and developing conceptual strategies during construction. Florian Strauss completes the directors board as the managing director and partner in our Munich office.