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By Ar Aishwarya K
Landscape Architects – Ar Martha Schwartz
PHILOSOPHY:
• Design must create a “sense of place” -sense of
belonging and individuality.
• Create an emotional connection - character,
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,
• 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.
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
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.
Landscape Architects – Ar Martha Schwartz
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.
PHILOSOPHY
• Believes in deep embracing of nature, even
in its potentially destructive aspects.
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.
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