Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitors Center, designed by HMWhite, in #Brooklyn, #NY. ASLA 2013 Honor Award, General Design. #LandscapeArchitecture #STEM
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Project Statement: The Brooklyn Botanic Garden visitor center establishes a visionary public interface between city and garden. Fusing contemporary site engineering technology with sustainable landscape and horticultural design, the landscape design marks the Garden's centennial and demonstrates the institution's commitment to environmental stewardship and conservation. As a seamless, inhabitable extension of the Garden, the building's living roof design mergers landscape and architecture, redefining physical and philosophical relationships between visitor and garden, exhibition and movement, culture and cultivation.
Converging Ecologies as a Gateway to Acadiana, designed by @carbo.la, in St. Landry Parish, LA. ASLA 2016 Honor Award, General Design. #LandscapeArchitecture #STEM
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Project Statement: St. Landry Parish serves as the northern gateway to Louisiana’s Acadiana region. The proposal for a new visitor center along Interstate 49 was an opportunity to provide visitors their first glimpse of the forests, swamps, and prairies typical of this diverse landscape. Through interpretations of these native landscapes at the new St. Landry Parish Visitor’s Center, travelers are able to gain an understanding of the region’s distinctive character.
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The landscape goes beyond simple visual representations of native landscapes, performing numerous functions to create a comprehensively sustainable and resilient site. Innovative stormwater management, on-site renewable energy, and re-use of many salvaged materials are closely integrated with building systems to serve as a showcase for sustainable development strategies.
Tongva Park and Ken Genser Square, designed by @fieldoperations, in #SantaMonica, CA. ASLA 2018 Honor Award, General Design. #LandscapeArchitecture #STEM
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Project Statement: Tongva Park + Ken Genser Square transformed a former parking lot into a lush landscape of rolling hills, meadows and gardens. The design was shaped by an extensive community process and is now celebrated as an important destination and center for Santa Monica. The most dramatic aspect of the site transformation has been the restoration of its ecosystem - new forest types and amended soils respond to the design's microclimates and showcase a diversity of species specifically suited to each area. Over three hundred carefully selected new trees, thousands of new plants, and hundreds of California native and appropriately adapted species are part of the ambitious planting scheme. As such, it is one of the first large-scale contemporary urban projects to highlight California native plants as significant horticultural features, and was a trailblazer for climate-appropriate water use in the public realm. The project's sustainability is boldly evident not only in its ecology and use of water, but also in its diverse social use and vibrancy, as its varied and flexible spaces attract users of all backgrounds.
