Landscape Architecture

Landscape Architects
By Ar Aishwarya K
Landscape Architects – Ar Martha Schwartz
BORN : 1950, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United

States
NATIONALITY: American
ALMA MATER: Harvard Graduate School Of Design ,
University Of Michigan
OCCUPATION: Landscape Architect
ORGANIZATION: Martha Schwartz Partners
BRANCH: United Kingdom, United States, PR China
Martha is very well known in the world of Pop-

Culture, which uses traditional design elements, but
not in the tradition way.
PHILOSOPHY:
• Design must create a “sense of place” -sense of
belonging and individuality.
• Create an emotional connection - character,
By Ar Aishwarya K , RRSA , 2019

memory, identity, orientation and individuality.
• Urban landscape is shaped by social, cultural,
economic and political operations of people and
communities.
• The character of a city comes through good
planning , the quality of the housing stock, and the
design of attractive streets and pedestrian
walkways, parks and open spaces.
STYLE
• Schwartz approaches garden design first and
foremost as an artist.
• The boundary between art and landscape
design has been partially erased
• Martha Schwartz’s landscape design works
deny the reality of material, synthetic replaced
real, ironic replace serious.
• Everything we encounter daily are landscape
to her.
• Does not conform to traditional, romantic,

botanical design methods. Often including
colorful, geometric and functional sculptures,
her work is unconventional – sometimes there
are few plants at all.
CASE STUDY - WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE Location: Cambridge, MA, USA

SPLICE GARDEN Client: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Design Team: The Office of Peter Walker and Martha
Schwartz (Martha Schwartz, Bradley Burke)
• STYLE : The Splice Garden is combination of Size: 875 square feet
tradition Japanese concept and French Status: Completed 1986
Renaissance Garden.
• PLAN :
• The Splice Garden, a 25-by-35-foot
rooftop garden sits atop a nine-story
office building, Whitehead Institute, a
microbiology research center.
• The open space was converted into a
two pieces garden “room”. The
garden can be overlooked from both a
classroom and a lounge on the ninth
floor.

• The sculptural objects and
imaginative treatment energizes the
spaces.
• It has a diagonal vector with a strong
diagonal communication line, like a
knife cutting the plan - splicing to
create new life forms
CASE STUDY - WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE SPLICE

GARDEN
DESIGN:
• The French side is a cozy, sociable place, while
the Japanese side is a compositional void and
a viewing garden.
• The sand used in Japanese gardens is not
beach sand but a crushed granite.
• Simplicity and beauty of the Zen Garden is
expressed by the use of plants instead of
rocks, as well as a green-dyed sand with
ripples.
• Geometry pattern is put as a way to orient
people in those spaces.
• Popular culture shares many things with
minimalism but pays more attention to details

and individual parts to complete the design as
whole.
MATERIALS:
• She bravely arranges off-the-shelf or temporary
materials as her controversial design elements.
• She used plastic instead of real vegetation to
make it low cost.
CASE STUDY - WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE SPLICE GARDEN
The garden doesn’t need maintenance staff or sources of water. That is there is not enough
money to care for a real planted garden properly.
• The garden will be green when other gardens are gray and snowy.
• It is a successful way to control people’s feeling and altering the sense of the space using this
simple color.
• Abstraction of wilderness and nature is skilfully carried out in her designs.

Landscape Architects – Turenscape (Ar KongjiyanYu)
TURENSCAPE (Ar Kongjiyan Yu)
Turenscape is one of the first and largest private

architecture, landscape architecture and
urbanism practices in China.
Earth (Tu), symbolizes the livings and the spirits
of what we dwell.
Ren means people, the man, human being.
Kongjian Yu (1963) is a Chinese landscape

architect, professor for landscape architecture
at Peking University (PKU) and the founder of
the planning office Turenscape in Beijing.
PHILOSOPHY
• Believes in deep embracing of nature, even
in its potentially destructive aspects.

• Be native in terms of material and plant
use.
• Landscape architecture is an art of survival.
• Negative planning is needed in order to
preserve ecological infrastructure.
• Create a harmony between land and
people.
CASE STUDY - QINHUANGDAO RED RIBBON

PARK
 Location : China - Qinhuangdao City

 Designer :Turenscape
 Project Year : 2008
 Client : The Landscape Bureau, Qinghuangdao
City, Hebei Province, China
 Area Surface : 20 Hectares
Concept
• The minimum intervention approach to urban
greenway while preserving as much of the
natural river corridor as possible during the
process of urbanization.
• The site is a linear river corridor (Tanghe River)
covered with lush and diverse native vegetation
that provides diverse habitats for various
species.

Issues
• Unkempt and Deserted: Located at the edge of a
beach city, the site was a garbage dumping site
with deserted slums.
• The site was virtually inaccessible and insecure
for people to use.
• Development Pressure-natural river corridor was
likely to be replaced with hard pavement.
CASE STUDY - QINHUANGDAO RED RIBBON
PARK
Design features
• A “red ribbon” was designed against the
background of green vegetation and blue
water.
• This ribbon stretches for 500 meters along
the riverbank, integrating a boardwalk,
lighting, seating, environmental
interpretation, and environmental
orientation.
• Four pavilions in the shape of clouds are
distributed along the ribbon, which
provide protection from the weather,
meeting opportunities, and visual focal
points.
• Four perennial flower gardens of white,
yellow, purple and blue, act as patchwork
on the former open fields, and turn the
deserted garbage dumps and slum sites
into attractions.
• The natural site has been dramatically

urbanized and modernized, two attributes
that are highly sought after by the local
residents while keeping the ecological
processes and natural services of the site
intact.
• Many of the park visitors are former
farmers and “newly urbanized.” The park
provides helps maintains visitors’
environmental connection with rural
China.

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BORN : 1950, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United

Martha is very well known in the world of Pop-

By Ar Aishwarya K , RRSA , 2019

By Ar Aishwarya K , RRSA , 2019

CASE STUDY - WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE Location: Cambridge, MA, USA

By Ar Aishwarya K , RRSA , 2019

CASE STUDY - WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE SPLICE

By Ar Aishwarya K , RRSA , 2019

CASE STUDY - WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE SPLICE GARDEN

By Ar Aishwarya K , RRSA , 2019

TURENSCAPE (Ar Kongjiyan Yu)

Turenscape is one of the first and largest private

Kongjian Yu (1963) is a Chinese landscape

By Ar Aishwarya K , RRSA , 2019

CASE STUDY - QINHUANGDAO RED RIBBON

 Location : China - Qinhuangdao City

By Ar Aishwarya K , RRSA , 2019

By Ar Aishwarya K , RRSA , 2019

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