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98 | CONNECTICUT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Borrowed Views / West Kill, NY This property in the Catskill Mountains is comprised of hundreds of acres that are all maintained in their natural state. Here James Doyle Design Associates found an easy alignment of their goals and their client’s goals: contribute to the natural ecological surroundings through the landscape design, respond to the vernacular of the place, and preserve the unobstructed views overlooking the West Kill valley. All of this was coordinated while the home was under renovation and a separate garage was built. Working with the architects, the garage was positioned close to the residence but not within view. This was achieved by sinking the garage and incorporating materials that would allow it to fade into the background. The landscape walls were designed with reclaimed barn-board and Cor-Ten steel, the same materials used on the garage. Local boulders were utilized to retain the grade and reduce the overall profile of the garage and parking area. The approach to the residence is a gravel ribbon driveway. The lawn, which also became the parking area, was stabilized by a subsurface grid that allowed the area to be camouflaged and utilized as vehicular access to the house while also minimizing impervious surfaces. The landscape around the home was planned with a mix of native trees, meadow plants, and woodland perennials. Existing fieldstone walls were restored, and oversized bluestone was utilized for the walkways and terraces. Connections to the site trail systems were planned with a trail-building company. The result of the various interventions is a seamless melding of the old and new, and a preservation of the attributes that make this landscape beautifully diverse. JAMES DOYLE DESIGN ASSOCIATES EXCELLENCE AWARD LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN – RESIDENTIAL Above: The garage is sunken into the landscape to minimize the visual impact on the surrounding landscape. A mix of native perennials is planted on top of the walls. Boulders were carefully handled to ensure that existing moss was maintained. Left: Rear terrace with peaceful valley view beyond.
SPRING 2023 | 99 CLIENT: PRIVATE RESIDENCE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: JAMES DOYLE DESIGN ASSOCIATES ARCHITECT: DOUGLAS C. WRIGHT ARCHITECTS CIVIL ENGINEER: KAATERSKILL ENGINEERING ASSOCIATES GENERAL CONTRACTOR: HOBBS INC. LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR: KERN’S LANDSCAPE & NURSERY TRAIL BUILDERS: TAHAWUS TRAILS, LLC IRRIGATION: PRO SPRINKLER SYSTEMS, INC. ARBORIST: HEALTHY TREES, LLC MASONRY: LUPPINO LANDSCAPING & MASONRY, LLC STONE SUPPLIER: STONE RESOURCE, INC. PHOTOGRAPHER: NEIL LANDINO Above: A gravel ribbon driveway provides a pervious surface for vehicular access adjacent to the home. Left: An old fieldstone wall was reconstructed to make it structurally stable while still maintaining the vernacular of an old wall. Below: The edges of the forest were enhanced with plantings of shade-tolerant native ferns, carex, and perennials.
100 | CONNECTICUT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Renewing Storm King Art Center’s Allées New Windsor, NY Three tasks comprised this collaboration between the Reed Hilderbrand design team and Storm King Art Center: analysis, design, and planting. The landscape architect-led team addressed the Museum Road Allée and Maple Allée. Over several months, they completed a forensic analysis of declining and dying sugar maples. Data was developed around the trees, soils, and general maintenance year-round. The team found damage associated with the original planting (e.g., unprepared soil, burlap-wrapped roots) and management practices used for the allées. The plan recommended replacing the existing trees with more adaptive species to restore the spatial composition and seasonal beauty of the allées. However, doing so required the team to evaluate criteria in the realms of art, horticulture, and ecology. Visitor perception was important as was REED HILDERBRAND HONOR AWARD LANDSCAPE PLANNING & ANALYSIS how well certain species might overcome circumstances that contributed to the failure of the existing trees. Resilience to a warming climate was also a factor. The allées were evaluated within the historic role and the land art vision of Storm King Art Center. Mixed deciduous woodlands and vast pollinator meadows support the allées and work in dialogue with the dramatic gesture of the allées sweeping up hill. Selection criteria determined a need for a species which adapts well to the variable hydrologic and elevation conditions and which possesses charismatic fall color. Nyssa sylvatica/Black Gum was chosen as the most fitting replacement species. To bolster soil health and give the trees their best chance at success, the team designed new amendments and infusions through compost teas and the establishment of a long-term composting program. Many sources of stress were found to be contributing to the decline of the 60-year old maples.
SPRING 2023 | 101 CLIENT: STORM KING ART CENTER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: REED HILDERBRAND ENVIRONMENTAL/SOILS CONSULTANT: F2 ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN PHOTOGRAPHER: JERRY THOMPSON Sensitive and strategic approaches to treating the Maple and Museum Road Allées will strengthen bonds between art and preservation and advance Storm King’s mission for generations. Left: With its drooping lower branches and strongly horizontal branching, black gum produces a tunnel-like experience, encouraging close inspection and evoking the feeling of being held.
102 | CONNECTICUT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan Cambridge, MA The Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan is an evidence-based, community-driven, and climate-forward response to decades of canopy loss. While tailored to Cambridge, the techniques, tools, and technologies could be applied in all cities. Reed Hildebrand led a diverse team — from soils scientists and arborists to lawyers and data analysts — in detailed research to understand root causes behind canopy loss, and ultimately, to direct resources wisely. Their findings dispelled myths about the City’s mismanagement of its trees, identifying the varied decisions of private property owners as the primary cause of urban tree loss. The consultant team projected forward, exploring the impact of increasing temperature, new pests, droughts, and floods over a 50-year horizon and determining the most threatened species and horticultural conditions. They also modeled the cooling effect of increased canopy, demonstrating its impact as green infrastructure for all. REED HILDERBRAND HONOR AWARD LANDSCAPE PLANNING & ANALYSIS The consultants presented 50+ strategies ranging from policy initiatives to outreach tools and a five-year plan to deploy the most impactful options first. Envisioning a healthy and equitable urban forest, the plan prioritizes investment in neighborhoods with populations at greatest risk of negative urban heat island impacts. Because much of the city’s canopy lies on private property, the plan also sought to galvanize residents citywide to become urban forest stewards. The impacts are already being felt — from the planting of hundreds of bare root trees in the last year to an increasingly engaged public. Beyond Cambridge, this notable demonstration project resulted in open-source techniques and procedures that were published as a technical manual for other cities to replicate. Above: The engagement plan built a series of accessible graphic tools to educate people about the urban forest and motivate stewardship. Right: Historical practices like redlining have had lasting impacts on canopy cover, shifting urban heat island impacts onto the least resilient communities.
SPRING 2023 | 103 CLIENT: CITY OF CAMBRIDGE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: REED HILDERBRAND ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE ENGINEERING: KLEINFELDER PUBLIC POLICY STRATEGY: CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION ECOLOGY: APPLIED ECOLOGICAL SERVICES SOILS SCIENCE: F2 ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN ARBORIST: BARTLETT TREE EXPERTS COMMUNICATIONS DESIGN: OVERUNDER PUBLIC OUTREACH CAMPAIGN COMMUNICATIONS: LIBRETTO PUBLIC OUTREACH STRATEGY: AANDA PHOTOGRAPHER: WHITE BIRCH MEDIA (CASEY PRESTON) Master plan recommendations rest on three pillars — equity, resiliency, and shared responsibility. Impacts accrue at the scale of the tree, the community, and the forest. Left: A series of innovative street and sidewalk sections respond to the unique patterns of Cambridge neighborhoods. The city’s ambitious planting of hundreds of bare root trees last year was an early win and a call to citizens to play their part.
104 | CONNECTICUT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Riverfront Retreat / Westchester County, NY Overlooking a bend in a tidal river joining Long Island Sound, a beloved 1927 Tudor in Westchester County presented its owners with daunting challenges. Located along a wetland complex and in a flood zone, this 1.1-acre property comprised an aging and poorly sited swimming pool, a disparate array of plants, fences, patios, and 360 lineal feet of failing seawall. The existing seawall buffer consisted of a solid row of Chinese junipers blocking most all views. The family’s goals were to create a wonderful family environment for entertaining that was respectful of their period home, resilient to seasonal flooding, and an enhancement to the river ecology and views that they wanted to enjoy both from inside the home, and throughout the property. The team at Renée Byers Landscape Architect transformed RENÉE BYERS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT MERIT AWARD LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN – RESIDENTIAL the property by engineering multi-level terraces linking formerly disjointed spaces from both upper and lower floors of the home. Boat storage is accommodated beneath the new upper terrace. Large drifts of native understory plantings travel from sinuous perimeter rain gardens to envelop a new swimming pool and family gathering spaces, improving water quality and welcoming pollinators. Existing heritage oaks and natural landforms were preserved. Garden rooms within the restored, resilient landscape enhance the house architecture, and forge visual and physical connections to the river.
SPRING 2023 | 105 CLIENT: PRIVATE RESIDENCE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: RENÉE BYERS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT CIVIL ENGINEER: RACE COASTAL ENGINEERING & HUDSON ENGINEERING PHOTOGRAPHER: GEORGE E. BYERS The serene pool garden is sizable yet intimate. Bluestone planks are set above a subsurface leaching system to collect stormwater. The firepit glows beneath flood-tolerant Nyssa sylvatica. Arborvitae elegantissima and Ilex opaca obscure the pool equipment and neighboring house, forming a structural backdrop for the soft understory plantings.
106 | CONNECTICUT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Alexander Walk at Yale University / New Haven, CT Many urban universities struggle with issues of campus identity, cohesiveness, and pedestrian safety, as their campuses are often interrupted by the city street grid. As the culmination of a decades-long process, the transformation of portions of New Haven’s Wall and High streets into a pedestrian promenade, renamed Alexander Walk, unifies Yale University’s campus by knitting together four university-owned blocks into a campus core with a strong sense of place. Two blocks of Wall Street (running from York to College Street) and two blocks of High Street (running from Elm to Grove Street) are now universally accessible pedestrian thoroughfares that connect key campus buildings and embrace students, cyclists, and the greater New Haven community. This project entailed the replacement of concrete sidewalks and asphalt roadbed with lush plant beds and unique concrete TOWERS|GOLDE, LLC MERIT AWARD LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN – CORPORATE/INSTITUTIONAL SPACES unit pavers selected to be visually compatible with adjacent historic limestone facades. Bluestone and granite cobblestone accent paving is flanked by granite planter curbs. Traditional wood and custom granite benches are placed to provide spaces for respite and gathering. Great care was taken to free the existing street trees from restrictive paving. Historic-style site light poles conceal high-efficiency LED lamps and security is supplemented with blue-light intercoms and cameras. The storm drainage system includes filtration and large below-grade recharge galleries, which take advantage of New Haven’s naturally sandy subsoil. The result is a vibrant, verdant, and safe space that has fully transformed the core of Yale’s campus. On an urban campus interrupted by the city grid, this project presented a unique opportunity to bring together four Yale-owned city blocks and create a more cohesive, vehicle-free campus core. The site plan indicates the extent of former city streets to be converted to pedestrian boulevards.
SPRING 2023 | 107 CLIENT: YALE UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF FACILITIES LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: TOWERS|GOLDE, LLC CIVIL ENGINEER: LANGAN ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION MANAGER: DIMEO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY GENERAL SITEWORK: NORTHEAST CONTRACTORS, INC. LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR: EDI LANDSCAPE, INC. ELECTRICAL ENGINEER: AKF ENGINEERING SITE ELECTRICAL & LIGHTING: PAUL DINTO ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS LIGHTING MANUFACTURER: SENTRY ELECTRIC LLC IRRIGATION: AQUA-LAWN, INC. ARBORIST: SAVATREE STONE MASONRY & UNIT PAVERS: SUMMIT MASONRY GRANITE CURBING: SWENSEN GRANITE CO. LLC GRANITE SETTS: CONNECTICUT STONE UNIT PAVERS: HOMER C. GODFREY MASONRY SUPPLY, HANOVER ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS Where there was once concrete, expansive plant beds now provide continuous seasonal floral displays. Alexander Walk now provides the critical link on Yale’s campus core by replacing vehicles with people. Above: The existing narrow streets divided the campus. Continuous traffic and parked cars along narrow sidewalks caused unsafe conditions for students during class changes and detracted from the campus aesthetic. Custom-designed granite bench.
108 | CONNECTICUT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Pointer Perch / Fishers Island, NY Pointer Perch, a rustic Fishers Island property overlooking the Atlantic, is within a residential park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. in the 1920s. At the time when Olmsted laid out the park’s meandering lanes and hilltop homesites, the island featured unobstructed views across native grasslands sprinkled with boulders. A century later, the property had become overgrown with dense brush and invasive vines, completely obscuring the views. The design goal was to restore Olmsted’s original vision, creating a meadow of native grasses as a setting for a new tower house, perched upon the site’s highest point. The meadow concept responded to the clients’ goal of creating a low-maintenance landscape in harmony with the surrounding protected lands. Selecting drought-resistant plantings was crucial given the windy site’s sandy soil and southern exposure. Mowed grass on the property is limited to a series of undulating paths through the meadow and surrounding the house and drive. HAVER & SKOLNICK ARCHITECTS (in collaboration with RACE ROCK GARDEN CO.) MERIT AWARD LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN – RESIDENTIAL The woodlands bordering the meadow were edited to reveal a wealth of mature oak, hickory, maple, and sculptural cherry trees. Occasional crabapples and shadblows provide spring blossoms. Invasive underbrush was carefully removed below the trees while preserving native inkberry, winterberry, and bayberry shrubs. Decorative plantings, selected to complement the native grasses, surround the house in undulating beds of beach stones, punctuated by massive boulders, which also conceal an underground roof drainage system. A terrace of jumbo bluestone pavers provides a vantage point to enjoy the rustic landscape and a strategically placed outdoor shower features ocean views. North entry, with ocean views beyond. Undulating beds of beach stones surround the house, accommodating both plantings and roof drainage
SPRING 2023 | 109 CLIENT: PRIVATE RESIDENCE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: HAVER & SKOLNICK ARCHITECTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH RACE ROCK GARDEN COMPANY, INC. ARCHITECT: HAVER & SKOLNICK ARCHITECTS CIVIL ENGINEER: CHA GENERAL CONTRACTOR: H.P. BROOM HOUSEWRIGHT, INC. LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR: RACE ROCK GARDEN COMPANY, INC. ELECTRICAL ENGINEER: CES PHOTOGRAPHER: ROBERT BENSON PHOTOGRAPHY Left: The overgrown woodlands surrounding the property were carefully edited, revealing many sculptural cherry trees, native shrubs, and large boulders, remnants of the ice age. Casual groupings of Caryopteris, Dwarf Fountain Grass, Lavender, and Mondo Grass complement the surrounding meadow grasses.
110 | CONNECTICUT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Return to the Riverbend / Middletown, CT The Return to the Riverbend Master Plan, a collaborative effort led by Langan and Cooper Robertson, envisions a reinvigorated riverfront for the City of Middletown, CT. Currently, the riverfront properties include abandoned industrial uses, restricting public access to the water. The overall goal of this plan is to reconnect Middletown to its Connecticut River waterfront. Key project concepts include a rich system of parks and trails, new streets which create new development blocks, and new development on existing parcels. Additionally, certain elements of the transportation network are shown, such as the multi-use trail stretching the length of the project area, new transit hubs, and critically important improvements to key riverfront streets. This holistic Master Plan was carefully formulated to be implementable and able to be built in discrete phases. Financial feasibility criteria were developed based on LANGAN (in collaboration with COOPER ROBERTSON) MERIT AWARD LANDSCAPE PLANNING & ANALYSIS discussions with property owners, local and state agencies, conceptual cost estimating, and potential public financing strategies. The project focused on envisioning concepts for key areas within the over 200 acres of newly developed and reinvigorated riverfront and their potential to fulfill the community’s guiding principles. The landscape architecture team led the open space design as well as reimagined the current vehicular and pedestrian circulation of the downtown area that effects travel to and from the waterfront sites. The Master Plan is a comprehensive vision built on decades of past planning efforts and public input, to bring new amenities and investment to the riverfront. The goal was to create a mixed-use riverfront, support environmental stewardship, plan for accessibility and affordability, promote community health and equity, provide a green approach to flood resiliency, and attract private investment. Center Street Pedestrian Bridge restores the historic Center Street alignment which was eliminated as part of urban renewal. Lined with active landscape areas, flood-tolerant native plantings, and seating areas, the plaza promises to activate Harbor Park in new and exciting ways.
SPRING 2023 | 111 CLIENT: CITY OF MIDDLETOWN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: LANGAN ARCHITECT: COOPER ROBERTSON CIVIL, TRANSPORTATION, WATERFRONT ENGINEER: LANGAN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ORGANIZER: KARP STRATEGIES The Union Street Gateway is an iconic new arrival point to the riverfront. It features walking paths, boat access to Sumner Brook, and a memorial plaza honoring the Wangunk tribe and their contributions to the Middletown community.
112 | CONNECTICUT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Shifting Minds Towards Greenspace and Well-being / Connecticut, New York & New Jersey This collaborative study, conducted by University of Connecticut and James Corner Field Operations, provides a novel approach to understand human perceptional changes in their experiences of and interactions with public green spaces during the early months of COVID-19. Using social media data and machine-learning techniques, it delivers new understandings of how people began to feel differently about their experiences compared to pre-COVID times. The study illuminates a renewed appreciation of nature as well as an emerging but prominent pattern of emotional and spiritual experiences expressed through a social media platform. UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT & JAMES CORNER FIELD OPERATIONS MERIT AWARD LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH Given that most studies have almost exclusively examined whether park use increased or decreased during the pandemic, this research provides meaningful implications beyond the simple extensional visit pattern. It highlights the preeminent roles parks and green spaces played during the pandemic and guides a new direction in future park development practice to support more natural elements and nature-oriented experiences from which emotional and spiritual well-being outcomes can be drawn. The research aimed to understand people’s perceptional changes in their interactions with parks and green spaces during the early months of COVID-19 using social media data combined with a machine-learning approach. Above: Twitter data were collected from all Twitter users in the study area (CT, NJ, and NY). The number of valid tweets included for data analysis for two-month window (March 13 –May 12) in each year from 2016 to 2020.
SPRING 2023 | 113 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT/RESEARCH TEAM: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SCIENCE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, JAMES CORNER FIELD OPERATIONS User experience keywords illustrating recreational activities associated with public green spaces were statistically grouped into 50 topic areas; of those, 19 topics were deemed interpretable and relevant to the study. This research suggests the need for deliberate incorporation of biophysical characteristics of wilderness settings into our park and green space systems to facilitate the emotional and spiritual dimensions of our experiences.
114 | CONNECTICUT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Albany Skyway / Albany, NY The Albany Skyway was an initiative to reclaim an under-utilized highway overpass for the cultural, economic, recreational, and ecological benefit of the city. In the 1960s, the construction of the I-787 elevated highway system cut Albany neighborhoods off from the Hudson River. The highway serves as a physical and economic barrier to surrounding neighborhoods. STANTEC MERIT AWARD LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN – PUBLIC SPACES The Skyway re-imagines a highway off-ramp as an iconic connection and park, re-uniting the downtown with its waterfront. This new regional destination serves as a linear park that is inviting, engaging, accessible, and creates missing links to the region’s expansive trail network, providing leisure activities for all to enjoy. The design demonstrates a technically complex implementation achievement and creative adaptation of single-use transportation infrastructure for public benefit. This project is serving as a catalyst for equitable change in the surrounding residential communities and an economic driver for downtown investment. The design team at Stantec provided quantitative research to evaluate the project’s financial viability and to ensure that the City would see a return on investment that would provide a variety of benefits to residents, workers, and businesses. The design’s flexibility allows for active, passive, and seasonal programming and the creation of 90,000 square-feet of additional park space within the heart of the city. The community desired flexible space for pop-up events that can evolve over time.
SPRING 2023 | 115 CLIENT: CITY OF ALBANY & NYSDOT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: STANTEC CIVIL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEER: STANTEC LIGHTING DESIGNER: STANTEC IRRIGATION: STANTEC The Skyway creates a half mile of car-free pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure connecting downtown with the Hudson River. Cross slope corrections, existing parapet walls and existing expansion joints posed technical challenges that the landscape architect overcame by strategic placement of planters, railings, and lighting.
116 | CONNECTICUT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Creekside Residence / Scarsdale, NY On a newly purchased 1.2-acre site, a young family with small children desired to create a large family garden which would also be wheelchair-accessible to the husband’s disabled brother. However, they faced significant site constraints such as a stream that bisected the back lawn and a rear yard which was a full one story lower than the front. Decaying wood decking, brick walls, patios, and a poorly executed swimming pool made for an unappealingly overbuilt and hardscape-covered back yard. RENÉE BYERS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT MERIT AWARD LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN – RESIDENTIAL Renée Byers Landscape Architect transformed the unremarkable, suburban environment by creating a lush, amenity-filled family garden united to the home. In the process, an important tributary to the Bronx River that ran through the lot was protected and enhanced. The lines between interior and exterior spaces were blurred through continual physical and visual links between the two. Collaboration with the architects gave character and functionality to both the house and grounds. Despite a one-story slope from front to back, grades were manipulated to create attractive and natural wheelchair access. Riparian plantings and a new stone bridge over the brook now beckon the visitor to explore the creek — now a highlight that mitigates neighborhood flooding, rather than the barrier it was originally considered by the owners. A tapestry of plant textures support the gradual diffusion of paved surfaces to the most natural parts of the garden. The children’s play structure is visible in the background, ready for hide-and-seek beneath an existing specimen weeping beech.
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