Urban Design • Community Planning • Sacred Geometry
Sacred Geometry and the Art of Urban and Community Design to Create Meaningful Places
Elevate the everyday with a fusion of timeless design connecting people to places, energy and purpose.
Balancing the art of nature with skillful design, Vashon Design Group honors the ever-expanding zenith of sacred geometry to conceive and design communities that harmonize with nature and fulfill the human soul. Sacred community design creates everlasting places that reconnect us to one another and to nature’s infinite majesty.
Symbolic Design Principles
Embedded in every thriving system in nature and virtually every building, work of art, and city that has stood the test of time, behind everything we regard as “beautiful” is a set of principles that serves as the foundation of harmony and balance. This is the foundation of the new wave of urban and community design.
Harmony
Design that is in harmonic resonance with all life forms.
Nature
Design that integrates proven best planning practices with the fundamental laws of nature.
Community
Design that celebrates the unique characteristics of place by honoring culture, preserving nature, implementing the foundational tools of all life forms and designing places for all.
Geometry
Design seeded deep in geometric symbolism, proportion and form to create beautiful places.
Nature
Design that speaks to the soul of place through symbolism, form and connection.
Place
Design that connects people to place by creating mind, body and spiritual connection.
Wisdom
Design that utilizes ancient wisdom with modern design solutions.
About
Vashon Marie Sarkisian
My interest in soul-filled community design began more than 30 years ago when I first began working as an urban designer. I wondered how aesthetics, nature, history of community design, the spirituality of landscapes and the evolution of societies all played a role in how I designed places where people would eventually live, work and play. It was this journey that led me to sacred geometry. I believe that the art of designing places with the foundational principles of nature to create dynamic, innovative and sustainable communities will serve as the template for the creation of neighborhoods, villages and towns of the future.
Approach
I have a strong desire to create communities that are sustainably designed, and this is reflected in every aspect of my approach to the design process. I look at each project individually and holistically to find a unique solution for each site through the lens of creative expression, problem solving and my love for placemaking.
Passion
I am passionate about designing communities that foster a sense of place, respect the higher laws of nature, inspire beauty and create connections. Connections formed to one another, to the cycles of nature and to the greater order existing in all life forms.
Experience
During my 30+ year career as an urban and community designer I have worked on a wide range of projects ranging from the development of new towns to small infill projects. My experience in land planning and design and my love for the land provides my holistic and integrated approach to creating soulful communities.
Design + consulting
Site Planning + Design
Vashon Design Group provides a wide range of design services for innovative communities of tomorrow, including those that incorporate neighborhood scale development principles.
Consulting
We consult and collaborate with architects, designers and developers who have a desire to incorporate sacred geometry in a wide variety of projects.
Public Speaking
Vashon speaks at in-person events and delivers online presentations about the topic of sacred geometry and the art of urban design and community planning to create meaningful places.
Projects
Baldwin Park Redevelopment
Orlando, FL
Vashon was a Designer/Community Planner for Baldwin Park, an 1,110-acre development based on the principles of New Urbanism. Providing a mix of uses, pedestrian friendly streets, schools, pocket parks, vernacular architecture and preservation of environmental systems, this community is one of the most sought-after neighborhoods in Orlando.
Horizon West
Orange County, FL
Vashon was part of a team of planners and designers to
master plan 24,000 acres of mostly destroyed citrus land to create a new town and series of walkable villages. With roots in the garden city movement of the early 1900’s, Horizon West is now a highly coveted, award-winning community in Central Florida.
Independence
Orange County, FL
Vashon was responsible for the design of the 1,396-acre master plan for the Independence Neighborhood in Horizon West.
She worked closely with the client, architects, landscape
architects and environmental consultants to develop a plan consisting of neighborhoods that are centered around schools
and parks, provides connectivity through trails and natural
systems, encourages architectural diversity and features a
diverse mix of land uses.
The projects represented here reflect work by Vashon during her tenure as a corporate urban and community designer and do not necessarily reflect elements of Sacred Geometry.
Sacred Geometry is the blueprint of Creation and the genesis of all form. It is an ancient science that explores and explains the energy patterns that create and unify all things and reveals the precise way that the energy of Creation organizes itself. On every scale, every natural pattern of growth or movement conforms inevitably to one or more geometric shapes.
Bruce Rawles
RESOURCES
If you feel inspired by what you see here and would like more information, here is a link to an excerpt of my upcoming book called, Sacred Geometry and the Art of Urban and Community Design to Create Meaningful Places.
Contact
This is a call to the true responsibility of architects, designers, and developers… to create lovable communities that nurture the best in our nature by virtue of the next generation of integrative design.