Social Impact Spaces by RPKLA

At RPKLA we have a fundamental understanding that good outdoor places have the ability to impact the health and mental well-being of people. Below are several key examples of what we can achieve through sustainable design. View our gallery by clicking through the images below.

Social Impact Spaces:

  • Green Roofs

    There is a new-found interest in utilizing rooftops for underused spaces as opportunities for green roof development. Up to 25 percent of a cities' land area are rooftops and are among cities most exciting spatial resources. reach out to us by clicking the button below to learn more about how we can design and curate a green roof for your home, business, organization, or institution.

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  • Outdoor Breakrooms

    Providing a way for people to go outdoors and connect with nature can have a huge impact on productivity - and that by spending time outside it helps employees to relax away from the stress of work. The outdoor break room offers endless possibilities to create a space that is inviting. Click below to reach out to us about creating this vital space for your employees.

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  • Outdoor Classrooms

    One of the fastest growing trends in education, outdoor classrooms provide safe social distancing options and a new learning environment for students. A mental health promoting resource makes perfect sense in a learning environment. Reach out to us to learn how we can design the perfect engaging space for you and your students.

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  • Public Greenspaces

    RPKLA offers a range of public greenspace creations such as pocket parks or parklets that are designed to impact neighborhoods, main streets, and the urban realm. Let us impact your community by providing comfort spaces and places that allow for outdoor social gatherings.

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Learn more about our Social Impact Spaces below:

Green Roofs

There is a new-found interest in utilizing rooftops for underused spaces as opportunities for green roof development. Rooftops are among a citi’s most exciting spatial resources and may offer solutions that include sustainable infrastructure and urban farming to social spaces and cultural or corporate venues.

Greening rooftops could allow new leisure space while improving the environmental situation. Green rooftops will help the city solve global problems by making it less vulnerable by allowing cities to improve their environmental situation and the health of their residents.

RPKLA is committed to the values of Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and continues to add projects that impact the public realm - reach out to us by clicking the button below to learn more about how we can design and curate a green roof for your home, business, organization, or institution:

Outdoor Breakrooms

A new trend of public spaces we love comes from the corporate and commercial world of office spaces looking for innovative solutions to provide places for their workforce to connect. This up-and-coming trend in office design is creating break areas outside to provide a space that’s innovative and inspiring, to offer employees a reprieve from the hours of sitting at their desks, and as a healthy social distancing solution to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

Studies show that providing a way for people to go outdoors and connect with nature can have a huge impact on productivity - and that spending time outside it helps employees to relax away from the stress of work. RPKLA is committed to creating spaces that are inviting with key design features built on combining the beauty of nature with the utility of providing an outdoor social living space. Click the button below to reach out to begin planning for your company’s new innovative outdoor breakroom.

Outdoor Classrooms

One other recent public design trend includes the increase in the creation of outdoor classroom spaces. The New York Times recently reported that schools across the United States have embraced the idea of classes in the open air, as Americans did during disease outbreaks a century ago. With the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic educational institutions have been faced with the need to innovate their outdoor spaces into functional learning environments.

Key design features of outdoor classrooms include equitable access to nature, being immersed in a natural environment, movable and flexible furniture, and canopies that offer shade and protection from the rain. RPKLA has qualified experience working with educational institutions to maximize these outdoor spaces in order to support a full range of developmental needs & learning outcomes. Begin preparing for the 2022-2023 academic year by reaching out now.