Alumni Gardens
Sep - dec 2024
Planting design
This design seeks to restructure the relationship between the spaces in Alumni Gardens, tying them together while concretely defining their borders. By changing the way people move through and see the gardens, visitors are encouraged to wander and linger longer, more fully experiencing Alumni gardens as an interconnected group of plantings spanning history.
Using architectural plantings to manipulate views, the new beds patch the hole in Alumni garden’s formal border and make the barley arch an effective entrance gateway. Within, the use of repeated elements creates continuity between the distinct garden areas, tying the herb garden, physically and aesthetically, into its surrounding, without homogenizing any of the existing spaces. A meandering path is positioned in such a way to encourage the most complete route through the garden, allowing a complete exploration without retracing steps.
