At the turn of a century in which the perception, the habits and the ideals with respect to the territory, the city and public space evolve constantly, EMF landscape architecture, work with knowledge of the opportunities and limitations that it presupposes in working with living material, in this dynamic environment and ever more diverse public. EMF work world wide on projects and studies of Public Spaces, urban planning and the organisation of territories in public and private areas.
‘Estudi EMF’ was born in 1999 after a period of formation and professional training in Barcelona, Amsterdam, London and Berlin, in which the opportunity was taken to compare different approaches to landscaping, the culture of public spaces and the organization of cities and territories.
EMF is a team of landscape architects, architects and agricultural technical engineers and collaborates with other institutions and professionals participating in all aspects of the projects, such as the planning and writing and technical assessments, to guarantee the quality of all projects carried out.
Working on projects of various scales and themes: public spaces within the city: parks, promenades, squares, spaces surrounding public and communal buildings, houses and gardens. In projects for preparing natural spaces for public use: projects of leisure areas, the Study of Integration and Impact on the Landscape (EIIL), vantage points or view points, a manual of urban furniture and signs and the Plans of areas of Public use. On the large scale EMF work with the infrastructures concerning the landscape, in the syntheses of visions for the structure of public areas in the city, in the study and creation of leisure zones and the writing of urbanistic projects
Among the projects undertaken by EMF some of the outstanding projects are the organisation of the banks of River Têt in Perpignan (F); the environmental restoration project of Club Med at Cap de Creus and the Program of the organisation of the Punta de Cap de Creus, the Public Gardens of Can Framis in district 22 @ of Barcelona, the cemetery of Laroque des Alberes (F), the Leisure Area of Coll de Can Massana in PN of Montserrat, the Nautical Pole at Canet de Rosselló (F), preliminary sketches of the organisation of the landscape of l’Espai Fluvial of Llobregat in Molins de Rei, Sant Vicenç dels Horts, the Papiol and Sant Feliu de Llobregat, the water purification plant at Perpngnan (F)…
Martí Franch has taken and now gives classes for Superior Graduate of Landscape Gardening and for the Landscape Architecture Masters in the Superior School of Architecture in Barcelona (ETSAB) and the teaching of Landscape Supervision and Management at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
The EMF Team consists of professionals in all fields of Landscape Architecture, Architecture and Agricultural Technical Engineering and collaborates with other institutions and professionals to guarantee quality in all projects carried out. ‘L’Estudi EMF’ participates in all aspects of the projects; the planning and writing as well technical advice from and for others in both public and private sectors.
