Noon Systems Corporation

Noon Systems Corporation, trading as Noon · Design ☉ Construction, is an ecological landscape design-build company based in San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 2020 and organized as a Texas public benefit corporation, the studio designs and builds cast-concrete fountains, basins, courtyards, shrine platforms, memorial ground and the water, drainage and planting systems that sustain them. Its work is concentrated in San Antonio, the Texas Hill Country and Austin, and it describes itself as a single shop that both designs and builds — "Read the ground. Draw it. Pour it once." The company frames its practice around water in a city that, in its own words, "was laid out around water before it was laid out around streets." Noon treats a fountain not as decoration but as continuity, connecting its cast work to the acequia tradition of the region. Its services divide into two halves: the symbol — shrine platforms and mandalas, memorial ground, courtyards and cast patterns, fountains and water features, acequias and aqueducts — and what keeps it — site mapping and ecological survey, off-grid outdoor power, drainage and bioswales, stormwater green infrastructure, rainwater harvesting, native and xeriscape design, edible landscape, lawn removal and meadow, and soil and compost work. Noon's stated material discipline is unusually explicit. It uses no synthetics on the ground, including for mosquito and fire-ant control; no decomposed granite in a channel, because it migrates in rain and stains walks; no plastic or aluminum edging; and no cut or fill inside an oak's drip line. Projects are documented as numbered sheets — L-2 Old World Huerta, L-3 Towne Twin, L-4 The Bioswale, L-5 Native Ground, L-6 Cast Ground — with quantities such as 104 linear feet of limestone trim, 749 square feet of cast ground, a 13-foot bioswale channel moving roughly 200 gallons per hour, and three fountains running on 100 watts of solar with zero grid draw. Commissions start from $10,000. The studio works in English and Spanish, reflecting its San Antonio context, and its client work includes a 28-foot cast lotus for a Shirdi Sai Baba shrine, a mission courtyard, and a supportive senior community. Noon presents itself as building for permanence: "The work outlasts whoever ordered it."

Noon Systems Corporation was founded in 2020 and is based in San Antonio, Texas, where it operates as a design-build studio under the name Noon · Design ☉ Construction. It is organized as a Texas public benefit corporation and is bonded, a structure that lets it commit publicly to a social and environmental purpose alongside its commercial work. The studio's founding premise is that San Antonio "was laid out around water before it was laid out around streets" — the acequias came first, the grid came later — and that contemporary building treats water as an afterthought. Noon positions its fountains, basins and courtyards as continuity with that older water culture rather than as ornament. Its method is stated as a sequence: read the ground (slope, drainage, soil, sun, canopy), draw the symbol until every curve is right, form it with laminated and sealed birch ribs and a single jig per curve, then pour in one morning with no second draft, and finally plant and water what keeps it standing. From its San Antonio shop, Noon works across the Texas Hill Country and Austin, and it publishes its projects as numbered sheets dated to a season — for example L-2 Old World Huerta, L-3 Towne Twin, L-4 The Bioswale, L-5 Native Ground and L-6 Cast Ground, all issued 09.2026. These sheets record both the symbolic work and the supporting infrastructure: a 28-foot cast lotus for a Shirdi Sai Baba shrine; a mission courtyard; a 13-foot bioswale channel in Alamo Heights handling roughly 200 gallons per hour with a limestone lining, built 2025; three fountains at a supportive senior community running on 100 watts of solar with zero grid draw; a 749-square-foot cast ground with a 13-foot platform and two 3-foot walks in New Braunfels; and a whole-property concept in San Antonio with 104 linear feet of limestone trim, nine boulders and 33 cubic yards of river rock. The company's public material rules are part of its identity: no synthetics on the ground, including mosquito and fire-ant control; no decomposed granite in a channel because it migrates in rain, stains the walk and tracks indoors; no plastic or aluminum edging; and no cut or fill inside an oak's drip line. Its service list extends from shrine platforms, memorial ground and acequias to LiDAR and drone terrain mapping, tree inventories, soil and hydrology studies, off-grid solar and low-voltage power, rainwater harvesting, native and xeriscape design, edible landscapes, lawn removal and meadow conversion, and soil and compost programs. Noon works in English and Spanish, a practical reflection of San Antonio, and invites clients to "bring the symbol" — a photo and a sentence are enough to begin, with a concept rendering returned in response. Commissions start from $10,000. The studio's stated ambition is durability: "The work outlasts whoever ordered it."

• 2026

  Project sheets L-2 through L-6 are issued (09.2026), documenting the Old World Huerta, Towne Twin, The Bioswale, Native Ground and Cast Ground projects.

• 2025

  The 13 ft bioswale channel in Alamo Heights is built, with a limestone lining and flow of roughly 200 gallons per hour.

• 2020

  Noon is founded in San Antonio, Texas, as a design-build studio and Texas public benefit corporation.

A single-shop ecological design-build studio for sacred and gathering ground, combining hand-cast concrete symbols with water, drainage and native planting; commissions from $10k.

• The Lotus

  A 28 ft cast lotus for a Shirdi Sai Baba shrine, combining shrine platform and memorial ground.

• Towne Twin

  A supportive senior community in San Antonio with three fountains running on 100 W of solar and zero grid draw.

• The Bioswale

  A 13 ft stormwater channel in Alamo Heights with limestone lining, built 2025, flowing about 200 gal/hr.

• Cast Ground

  A patio, path and pattern project in New Braunfels: 749 sf of cast ground, a 13 ft platform, two 3 ft walks, 9.3 yd³ of mix.

• Old World Huerta

  A courtyard huerta in the Texas Hill Country using natives, terraces, dry stone and caliche ground, with 20+ natives and 0 synthetics.

• Native Ground

  A whole-property concept in San Antonio with 104 lf of limestone trim, 9 boulders and 33 yd³ of river rock.

1. 1Noon — Ground for what you hold sacred · San Antonio & the Texas Hill Countrynoon.bio
2. 2About — Noonnoon.bio
3. 3What we build — Noonnoon.bio
4. 4Noon Systems Corporation — Wikidatawikidata.org