Hyphae Design Laboratory

11/12/2025

Award News!

We’re honored that the Green Heart Louisville Project has received the Witte–Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning. The Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania will presenting the award at the ceremony this evening (11/12).

Hyphae Design Lab is proud to serve as the lead design and planning team for this groundbreaking collaboration, which is testing how large-scale urban greening can improve heart health and community well-being.

Since 2015, Hyphae has been part of the Green Heart executive committee and leads the project’s Greening Core Team, translating complex health research into actionable, landscape-scale design. Our work bridges science and implementation—developing precision greening plans, cost-benefit frameworks, and spatial tools that make evidence-based design possible.

Supported by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (Grant ES029846), an SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation ( #2218499), and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Hyphae helped to conceive of the project and was a founding partner alongside the Envirome Institute and TNC.

The Green Heart Project has shown us that public-health research requires higher-resolution, higher-precision measurements of urban ecosystems—and that designing greener, healthier cities demands the same rigor as clinical science.

From precision medicine to precision greening, we’re proud to be advancing the science of urban health through design.

Learn more about the award, GreenHeart Project and NIH supported work in our linktree - link in bio.

09/06/2025

Hyphae is looking for a CAD/GIS Mapping Specialist to help weave data and design together.

This person will move rapidly between analytical tools and design tools — one moment running a spatial analysis or terrain model, the next drafting a site plan — and back again.

You’ll be tasked with turning fast-moving design thinking into precise technical documentation, offering insights rooted in data and scientific hypotheses.

In parallel, you’ll help refine our geospatial workflows to be more repeatable and efficient (automating them in whole or in part whenever possible).

In short, you’re the bridge between our creative design ideas and the hard spatial documentation that grounds them.

If you love diving into maps one day and CAD drawings the next, and if the idea of bridging science-driven urban design concepts with rigorous environmental data makes you giddy, we want to meet you.

LINK IN BIO!

09/05/2025

WE'RE HIRING!!

We're on the lookout for a CAD/GIS Mapping Specialist who's as enthusiastic about mission-driven work as we are.

This isn't your typical mapping role – at Hyphae you'll bridge design, data, and environmental justice every day to help create healthier, more connected communities. If you're fluent in AutoCAD and QGIS and love weaving data into design (and vice versa), let's talk.

This is a hybrid position (Bay Area or Philly preferred, open to remote). Join us in tackling complex urban ecology challenges with rigor and community vision!

Full job description: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tBELIdcy4dBdETnFF4V80QsnwoV4Kjzh/view?usp=drivesdk

Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbnr5BdhE5f7f-wgfG5xkQXuBv7OPXWxyVRDbQybSQZf5qug/viewform

LinkedIn: Share via https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4296643207/

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06/25/2025

Big News for a Greener, Safer, and Healthier Texas!

The Texas Trees Foundation is thrilled to announce a $25 million investment from the State of Texas to support the Southwestern Medical District Transformation Project – a visionary public-private initiative to reimagine over two miles of the Harry Hines Corridor in the heart of Dallas’s medical district.

Thanks to legislative champions like State Senator Royce West, Representative Rafael Anchía, Senator Tan Parker, Representatives Morgan Meyer and Angie Chen Button, State Representative Venton Jones and others, this funding accelerates a bold plan to:

Advance critical infrastructure
Combat urban heat with 4,000+ trees
Enhance public health and safety
Create an 8-acre Green Park oasis
Deliver over $1.69 billion in economic impact

Together, we’re turning the Southwestern Medical District into a healthier, safer, and more economically thriving area with our partners at the City of Dallas - City Hall, Dallas County, North Central Texas Council of Governments, Southwestern Medical District, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Children's Medical Center Dallas, Parkland Health, Field Operations, Hyphae Design Laboratory, MIG, Kimley-Horn, Terrapin Bright Green, DRW Planning, and Rise360Consulting. This isn’t just an investment—it’s a game-changer for Dallas, and a model for the nation.

Learn more: www.texastrees.org/swmdtransformation

03/13/2025

Project Manager and coolest tree on the block, Mei Visco, is out with our community partners , , and volunteers signing up West Oakland neighbors for trees!

Want all the benefits of a tree on your block in West Oakland? Go to WOEIP.org/trees3 to learn more about getting a FREE tree for your home. This round’s signup deadline is March 31st!

This work is funded by CARB's Sustainable Transportation Equity Project (STEP) Grant. For more information visit: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/sustainable-transportation-equity-project

09/27/2024

Hyphae is heading to Corpus Christi for AWM&A’s Ports of Entry Conference (9/30-10/1).

Hyphae Project Manager, Mei Visco, will present on the Prescott Greening project, highlighting how green infrastructure is helping to mitigate particulate pollution in West Oakland.

Hyphae is serving as the technical lead for the Prescott project, which builds on nearly a decade of research and planning for greening efforts in West Oakland. We are working alongside our longtime partner, the with support from the and the . The project is funded by the Alameda County Transportation Commission and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, our county and regional transportation agencies.

A big thank you for everyone involved in the collaboration!!

Full conference program: https://www.awma.org/portstechprogram

08/27/2024

04/03/2024

By September 2019, the Kutupalong refugee camp had become the largest refugee camp in the world, housing 600,000 people. To create housing in the camp complex, millions of poles of bamboo were harvested and then treated with solution to prevent pests and disease. The treatment of the bamboo being a crucial step in the construction process, we worked the IOM team at Kutupalong, Wicked Ops and dozens of refugees to design, build, commission and operate the world's largest bamboo pole treatment system to remove build-up of bamboo sap, rendering the treatment solution indefinitely recyclable.
The stills continues to this day and is in dire need of support.

03/20/2024

02/08/2022

We are hiring! Check LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyphae-design-laboratory) for more details.

06/29/2016

Here's a great article about the new Esalen Lodge. Hyphae is proud to have done the Civil Engineering on this project!

05/07/2016

Read about the back story and the challenges involved with the creation of the SFMOMA living wall http://sf.curbed.com/2016/4/29/11540278/sfmoma-living-wall

Will the record-setting design shape up and grow in time for the museum's big opening?