maintain the existing building design and construction exactly as is improve the surrounding environment by keeping the mountain landscape in the background but make the foreground more welcoming and refined the immediate surroundings should be designed as a dry garden with natural gravel sandy textures native low maintenance vegetation and scattered rocks incorporate subtle landscaping elements that soften the first planes and create a calm warm transition between the architecture and the natural landscape the overall atmosphere should feel serene contemporary and well integrated with the mountainous context
