Designing nature-based spaces that celebrate the natural world while inspiring and educating future generations through creativity and collaboration.

Studio Outside is committed to forming relationships with mission-driven environmental education and habitat stewardship organizations to explore the full potential of these unique nature-based destinations. We are inspired by the importance of nature centers and camps in the communities they serve – encouraging current and future generations of nature and outdoor enthusiasts. They provide unique immersive experiences in diverse habitat environments. Our collaborations identify, explore, and celebrate what nature is, and can be, within the specific site and resources of each client.

Environmental education projects mandate exceptional levels of creativity, multi-disciplinary collaboration, group participation, and concern for the realities of operations. We bring to each collaboration a rich knowledge of these unique contexts – possibilities, opportunities, and challenges – in which these venues exist and flourish. Our team of talented and impassioned designers work progressively and responsibly toward designs with a purpose. We have extensive leadership experience in all aspects of environmental education planning and design, including a familiarity with how ecological, cultural, programmatic, and operational issues influence the physical property and vice-versa. The site experiences that result are artistic expressions of place that contribute to engaging and inspiring encounters with the natural world.