A Garden for the City

A civic building that gives its ground to a public garden.

Type: Concept study
Images: Two visualizations and the original study

A civic building whose terraces carry hanging vertical gardens beneath a broad roof edge, fronting a public garden of palms, lawns and curving paths where people walk, push a stroller and cycle. — Visualization of the original rendering.

Interpretation

Elevated horizontal terraces, a broad planted roof edge and an open ground plane let the garden run beneath and around the building.

Vertical gardens hang from the terraces, so planting climbs the facade and the building shares its ground with the people who cross it.

Visualizations

Alternative visualization of the pavilion edge.

A rendering of a civic building with vertical gardens hanging from its terraces under a broad overhanging roof, above a public garden with palms, paths and people. — Original rendering.

The original

The rendering is the original study. The visualizations develop its material language, from precast concrete to fine bronze screens, while keeping the public garden at the center.