Congratulations to @lutskoassociates for winning a 2019 ASLA Honor Award in General Design for the Kua Bay Residence in Kona, Hawaii. #ASLAawards #NationalASLAWinner #ASLAProAwards2019 #LandscapeArchitecture
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Project Statement: This single family residence on Hawaii’s dry, volcanic Kona shore draws on the elemental forces that shaped the land to contextualize its material design and embed human aesthetic experience within the landscape. The site is on a transect from a mountain top to the ocean, two extremes of the Hawaiian landscape. The design team collaborated to develop a series of indoor-outdoor living spaces that trace the narrative from mountain to ocean, taking cues from Hawaii’s geological and cultural history. The material choices serenely distill the unique colors and textures of the surrounding landscape. Beginning on the mountain side of the site, a sequence of spaces emerges from a cleft in lava bedrock, proceeds through a freshwater oasis-like interior courtyard, finally opening out to an expansive view of the ocean. The visitor’s journey terminates at the pool deck where the pool emulates and seemingly merges with the vast ocean beyond.
Congratulations to @place_studio for winning a 2019 ASLA Honor Award in Residential Design for Hassalo on Eighth | From Urban Blight to LEED Platinum Neighborhood. #ASLAawards #NationalASLAWinner #ASLAProAwards2019 #LandscapeArchitecture
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Project Statement: Envisioned with ethos of an "eco-district," Hassalo on Eighth is LEED Platinum urban development with innovative sustainable technologies and amenities for renewable and clean energy, green roofs, a bike hub, and access to mass transportation. It is also one of the first and largest North American neighborhoods to treat and recycle wastewater on site. NORM, Natural Organic Recycling Machine, diverts away from the municipal sewer 100% of the wastewater generated in the three residential buildings. The system lessens the burden on public utilities, saving costly repairs and infrastructure expansion and garnering considerable support from the City and State DEQ. NORM treats 45,000 gallons per day through a series of trickling filters and constructed wetlands integrated into the design of the park-like pedestrian water street, an epicenter of the landscape. Unused treated wastewater is injected into dry wells for crucial groundwater recharge in a largely impervious urban area, ensuring that no element of this new 'waste' stream is wasted.
Congratulations to the Hocker Design Group for winning a 2019 ASLA Award of Excellence in Residential Design for Sonoma Mountain in Glen Ellen, CA. #ASLAawards #NationalASLAWinner #ASLAProAwards2019 #LandscapeArchitecture
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Project Statement: Situated on a 4-acre parcel within a 96-acre preserve on Sonoma Mountain, this hidden retreat offers private spaces for entertainment, recreation, and respite. A masterplan effort optimized the potential of the exterior spaces with adjacency to structures while hiding vehicles from sight, all along a sloping hillside. Elements of the site are organized along the sloping meadows amongst the predominant native Quercus agrifolia. Two small "weeHouse" structures, connective walks and steps, a pool, outdoor grilling area, privacy wall, and seating space are meticulously placed on and carved into the site, surrounded by re-sown native grasses. The dwelling spaces, both indoor and out, offer stunning valley views toward Matanzas Creek below.
Congratulations to China Construction Design Group for winning a 2019 ASLA Honor Award in General Design for Yellowhorn Farm Park: Battling The Threat of Desertification! #ASLAawards #NationalASLAWinner #ASLAProAwards2019 #LandscapeArchitecture
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Project Statement: The Yellowhorn Farm Park project, built in 2014, is a 150-acre hilltop of yellowhorn farmland located in Aohan County in Inner Mongolia, China. Inner Mongolia is China’s third largest province, and has been battling severe desertification for over a century. Over-grazing, logging, expanding farms, population pressure, wind, and drought have all turned this once-fertile grassland into sandy a plain. In the past 20 years, approximately three million acres of desert have been rehabilitated through enormous local and national effort. This project site is one of the most representative fields of this type of transformation, from severe desert to flourishing farm. The particular location of the overlook platform of this park was an onsite temporary office, during those years of fighting desertification, serving as a hub, providing space for observation, organization, rest, and service to thousands of workers devoted to fighting desertification. With an intention towards minimal environmental intervention, the landscape design team integrated historical resources (i.e., materials, plants, and construction methods) with contemporary uses (i.e., education, recreation, and technology integration) to commemorate several generations of effort to combat desertification and provide ecological, recreational, educational, and economic benefit to the local area.
