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At Inhabitect, we’re committed to sharing our knowledge of green stormwater infrastructure and ecological landscaping with our clients, collaborators, and community. We’d love to discuss your ideas and how we can help.
Since 2013, Inhabitect has embodied the principles of environmental responsibility and resiliency. By working collaboratively with clients and stakeholders on all levels, we elevate your landscaping by inserting nature-based solutions – contributing to a more sustainable future. With our experienced know-how, we guide you through the design, construction and maintenance processes.
We’ve got a keen understanding of horticulture, landscape architecture, engineering, and architecture, as well as the know-how to bring your outdoor spaces to life. We’re also serious about our environment’s health and creating resilient, sustainable communities to support it.
With experience in green infrastructure and landscape design, construction, policy-backed consulting, and project management, we’ve learned to look at things differently.
Partnering with a design-build firm eliminates the headache of managing multiple designers, contractors, and tradespeople. Inhabitect handles everything – from site analysis and design through budgeting, installation, and ongoing maintenance – so you don’t have to.
We blend horticulture with the technological abilities of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and architectural firms with the practicality of a landscape contractor. Clear communication and collaboration are also at the core of our process, saving you time and money.
From initial sketches to large-scale site plans, we design with native plants, build and restore habitats, support pollinators, embrace innovative materials and install green stormwater infrastructure – bringing sustainability to life on every project.
We design, build, and grow ecologically friendly landscapes that utilize native plants, sustainable landscaping practices, and green stormwater infrastructure. From residential gardens to commercial landscape installations, our work blends beauty with biodiversity. These spaces and places are thoughtfully crafted to create unique “outdoor rooms” that manage stormwater runoff, support pollinators, create habitat, and improve soil health. Every project reflects our commitment to resilient, low-maintenance landscapes that exceed client expectations and thrive for years to come.
We transform rooftops into vibrant vegetated spaces and dynamic outdoor living environments. Whether it’s extensive or intensive green roofs, pedestal pavers, or amenity decks, our rooftop solutions improve building performance, biodiversity, and aesthetics. These systems manage rooftop stormwater, increase the value of the building, extend the life expectancy of rooftop waterproofing membranes, reduce urban heat island effect, and create functional outdoor spaces. With thoughtful design and expert installation, we are bringing life to commercial and residential rooftops across Michigan.
Our natural shoreline restoration services protect Michigan’s waterways by using soft-armoring and bioengineering techniques that stabilize banks, slow runoff and damages caused by erosion, create vegetated buffers, and restore habitats. We specialize in shoreline solutions that blend into lakefronts and streambanks. By combining coir logs, deep rooted native vegetation, and expertly placed aggregates and boulders, we build living systems that evolve with their environment. Whether on high-energy lakefront properties along Lake Michigan, riverbanks, or one of Michigan’s lower energy inland lakes, we create shorelines that safeguard both your property and our shared ecosystem.
Developers, homeowners, and municipalities turn to drone technology for accurate mapping, site analysis, and real-time project tracking. Inhabitect’s certified drone team provides high-resolution aerial surveys that streamline the design process, reduce costs, and enhance decision-making at every stage.
Our licensed drone operator captures precise, site-specific data without the expense of traditional on-site surveys. By integrating aerial mapping early in the planning phase, we help prevent costly errors, optimize design efficiency, and ensure a seamless transition from concept to construction.
Our Stormwater Treatment Train philosophy uses a combination of resilient and ecologically mindful landscape installations — like green roofs, rain gardens, green walls, porous paving, and other bio-infiltration systems — to effectively capture, filter, and evaporate your excess stormwater. The result: aesthetically pleasing landscapes that deliver a slower and reduced volume of runoff.
A green roof — or vegetated roof, garden roof, living roof, or eco-roof — is a multi-layered system of plants, lightweight growing media, and other geotechnical components that are installed over a man-made, waterproof membrane. It's the most popular form of Green Stormwater Infrastructure and helps transform a rooftop into a beautiful amenity space.
A rain garden includes native shrubs, perennials, and other vegetation, planted together within depressions in the landscape, usually along a natural slope. It's designed to allow for a large portion of stormwater runoff to soak into the ground rather than rush by, preventing erosion and other issues downstream.
Rooftop Living — also known as rooftop amenity spaces, sky terraces, or rooftop decks — transforms underutilized rooftops into vibrant, functional environments. These spaces can feature seating areas, greenery, outdoor kitchens, and more, creating a unique extension of livable space while enhancing urban sustainability and well-being.
Through an ecological and sustainable approach to landscaping, we use design practices that are rooted in long-term success. We employ native plant materials in our installations to manage stormwater, eliminate the cause and effects of erosion, and create natural habitats that encourage biodiversity and environmental richness.
A green wall is a vertical, vegetated surface that can be installed indoors or out. It brings a dramatic design element to any project, with the added benefits of increased air quality and stormwater management.
Green street installations use a combination of vegetated and permeable surfaces to provide a resilient system that supports a municipality's existing stormwater infrastructure. Used at street level, they reduce and slow down stormwater runoff volumes while increasing infiltration rates into native groundwater systems.
A rain garden includes native shrubs, perennials, and other vegetation, planted together within depressions in the landscape, usually along a natural slope. It's designed to allow for a large portion of stormwater runoff to soak into the ground rather than rush by, preventing erosion and other issues downstream.
Natural shorelines couple eco-friendly components and plant materials together in a bioengineered system that provides a natural, vegetated buffer between your commercial or residential property and its neighboring body of water. It's an eco-minded solution that stabilizes a shoreline while protecting its ecosystem.
At Inhabitect, we’re committed to sharing our knowledge of green stormwater infrastructure and ecological landscaping with our clients, collaborators, and community. We’d love to discuss your ideas and how we can help.
Inhabitect is a full-service firm dedicated to designing, building, and growing all forms of living architecture. Based in Traverse City, Michigan — and consulting throughout North America — we create green roofs, natural shorelines, and other stormwater management and eco-minded landscape solutions for clients across the state. We’re bringing a new meaning to ‘GREEN.’