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/ FINE ART MEETS FIELDWORK
Our aerials yield actionable insights into progress, safety, and potential.
/ ALOFT, ATTUNED, ARTFUL
/ THE ART OF THE DELIVERABLE
Your projects are distilled into data-rich, portfolio-ready updates.
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Client: Landify US.
Location: Santiago Canyon, Orange County, California.
Acreage: 67.7 acres.
Current site usage: quarry/landfill.
Destination: public green space.
Deliverables: floristic research, 3D modeling, 3D artist’s views (stills and 4K clips), NIMBY defense before/after comps.
Aerial intelligence and photography: Yogan Muller, Ph.D.
Lead 3D artist: Kahin Vasi.
/ PROJECT HISTORY
Since April 2026, Topographica has been supporting Landify US to restore 67.7 acres of land located in Santiago Canyon, near the City of Orange, California. Known as the “Sully Miller Site” among the local community, it currently serves as a quarry. Landify’s vision consists of a green space for the local community to rest, exercise, contemplate, go run, bike, and ride horses. As an extension of ECT Group, a French firm specializing in the repurposing of excavated earth since the 1970s, Landify US aims to restore the Sully Miller Site by forming a new terrain based on soil they will gather from nearby construction sites.
/ THE CHALLENGE
Transforming a 67.7-acre site that currently doesn’t generate nuisances, but one that doesn’t serve the local community, into a desirable environmental masterpiece that adds to Santiago Canyon’s green belt.
Site reconnaissance, Santiago Canyon, Orange County, California, April 2026.
Site reconnaissance, Santiago Canyon, Orange County, California, April 2026.
Site reconnaissance, Santiago Canyon, Orange County, California, April 2026.
Site reconnaissance, Santiago Canyon, Orange County, California, April 2026.
Site reconnaissance, Orange County, California, April 2026.
/ AERIAL INTELLIGENCE
Topographica acquired high-fidelity gaussian splats of the site’s surroundings, ensuring photorealism and the seamless integration of the artist’s view in the existing landscape.
/ CAD FILE INGESTION AND 3D MODELING
Working from Landify’s CAD files, Topographica designed a full-fledged 3D artist’s view of the restored landscape, from dusty quarry to desirable community space.
FLORISTIC RESEARCH /
Topographica populated the site with clusters of trees and plants that are native to our floristic region. The site became a moving painting to be marveled and traversed by the local community.
We helped Landify secure Mayoral and HOA approval, as well as a unanimous City Council vote in August 2026, all settling a 50-year history of competing development proposals, community debates and referenda.
This is “Fine Art Meets Fieldwork,” at work.
This is “Fine Art Meets Fieldwork,” at work.
We respond creatively to a variety of terrains, conditions, and aerial scenarios over the long haul.
BEYOND JPEGS /
We turn site data into rich chronicles of progress, safety, and potential.
DEPLOYING FROM SANTA MONICA, CA /
We serve Southern California with fast response and local knowledge.
Fine-art-grade footage informed by 15+ years of landscape photography experience and research.
2D and 3D mapping (orthomosaics, photogrammetry, and gaussian splatting):
Full range of aerial mapping approaches and products tailored to complex, fast-evolving projects.
LiDAR mapping (soon)
We flesh out your finished project through immersive 3D renderings that secure stakeholder buy-in.
Progress monitoring and updates:
We document the evolution of your projects over the long haul using repeatable capture pmethods that ensure precision, transparency, and stakeholder alignment.
Building envelope mapping:
Our as-built facade and roof 3D capture archive the completion of your most complex projects.
Measurements (informational only):
Aera and stockpile measurements are performed in-house to assist you in keeping an eye on material location and usage.
Project-specific branding and storytelling
On-site photography to humanize operations
NIMBY defense shots (aerial and terrestrial)
3D hyperlapses
Show: All | Architecture | Art + Land | Construction | Inspection
67-acre restoration project with Landify US
Santiago Canyon / Orange County, CA / Avril 2026–Present /
/ PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Since April 2026, Topographica we have been supporting Landify US to restore a 67-acre site located in Santiago Canyon, near the City of Orange, California.
Known as the “Sully Miller Site” among the local community, it has served as a sand and gravel mine for almost a century (1919-1995), and has been the subject of several competing transformation visions.
Landify’s vision consists of a green space for the local community to rest, exercise, contemplate, and ride horses, expanding Santiago Canyon’s green belt.
Topographica deployed aerial intelligence, ingested Landify’s CAD files, modeled and populated the finished site, generated 3D flyover videos, and NIMBY defense shots.
The result? Landify secured Maroyal and HOA approval, as well as a unanimous city council vote in August 2026, all settling a 50-year history of competing visions for the site.
/ PROJECT ID
topo-2604-land-001
T.E.U.C.L.A. Sculpture
UCLA Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden / Westwood, CA / August 2025 /
Topographica acquires aerial views of contemporary sculptor Richard Serra’s T.E.U.C.L.A. sculpture installed in front of the UCLA Broad Art Center.
Project ID:
topo-2508-pa-001
Categories:
Photography
3D model
Public Art
The Biophilia Treehouse
Encino, CA / February 2023–present /
The Biophilia Treehouse is a UCLA Design Media Arts Counterforce Lab public art project directed by Professor Rebeca Méndez to grow a series of living sculptures offering birds a place to nest and thrive.
Biophilia Treehouse is also conceived as an outdoor classroom, a community storytelling center, and a sequence of stepping stones designed to restore landscape connectivity across LA County.
The first Biophilia Treehouse was conceived and produced at the UCLA Design Media Arts fablab and installed in Encino, CA, on the grounds of the Holy Spirit Retreat Center stewarded by the Sisters of Social Service.
Full project description: https://counterforcelab.org/biophilia-treehouse
Project ID:
topo-23-25-pa-001
Categories:
Photography
4k video
3D model
Public art
Drones and L.A. Water Narratives
UCLA Design Media Arts / Winter 2024 /
Undergraduate class introducing drone photography, FAA regulations, sectional charts, weather, and drone flight and safety.
Students focused on the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a critical water conveying system that brings life to our homes and campus, from Sylmar, CA, to Mono Lake.
The class culminated in a 132-page book students co-designed, printed and bound at the UCLA Design Media Arts print lab.
This class earned Yogan Muller the 2024 UCLA Unit-18 Professional Development Award and was featured in the Spring 2024 UCLA SOAA faculty spotlight, and in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) magazine in July 2024.
Read:
• Spring 2024 UCLA SOAA faculty spotlight: https://arts.ucla.edu/single/faculty-spotlight-spring-2024/
• Interview for the ucla IoES magazine: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/article/ucla-counterforce-labs-yogan-muller-publishes-book-on-la-aqueduct-following-cop21/
Project id:top-2403-ph-002
Project id:
topo-2402-03-ph-002
Categories:
Photography
4k video
Infrastructure
Research
Reaching
Utilities
Drones and LA Water Narratives
UCLA Design Media Arts / Winter 2024 /
Drone footage Yogan Muller captured for the “Drones and LA Water Narratives” undergraduate class he led at UCLA Design Media Arts, introducing drone photography, FAA regulations, sectional charts, weather, and drone flight and safety.
Project id:
topo-2402-03-ph-001
Category:
Photography
Infrastructure
Teaching
Utilities
Westwood, CA / September 2026
Topographica acquires aerial views, inspects the facade, and a 3d map of the UCLA Broad Art Center’s south-facing facade, designed by Richard Meier, located on UCLA north campus.
Project id: topo-2609-ar-001
Categories:
Photography
4k video
3D model
Orthomosaic