哈佛大学阿诺德植物园 M. Victor and Frances Leventritt花园
M. Victor and Frances Leventritt Garden at The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
Reed Hilderbrand, Watertown, Massachusetts
项目地点：美国马萨诸塞州波士顿市
设计单位：美国Reed Hilderbrand事务所
项目委托：哈佛大学
"A project of love, you can just see it in the details. It's exquisite, contemporary yet traditional and unique in how it's presented. It looks very sustainable and appears low maintenance. The accessibility is addressed subtly and effectively."
— 2007 Professional Awards Jury Comments
“一个充满爱的作品，这一点从细节上就可以看出来。它表现了精致、既现代又传统的独特风格。只要很少的养护就可以实现可持续性。亲近的感觉得以巧妙并有效的实现。”
——评委会评语
A Contemporary Parterre for Shrubs and Vines
This garden realizes the Arnold Arboretum’s evolving scientific and public mission by bringing landscape architects together with research scientists to develop a flexible and engaging shrub and vine collection. Applying horticultural display traditions—bedding and terracing—to a 3.5-acre irregularly shaped hillside, the project develops a contemporary, fully accessible framework for changing collections emphases, educational programs, and daily enjoyment. By fusing the primary concerns of topography, plant culture and habit, spatial character, and interpretation, the project advances the collaborative legacy of Charles Sprague Sargent and Frederick Law Olmsted.
The Organic Parterre: Integrating Curators, Gardeners, and the Public
To establish a new demonstration garden for over 150 species and cultivars of shrubs and vines, the Arboretum set forth an open-ended collections policy without a specific curatorial direction. The scheme therefore depends on a flexible bedding layout that dynamically responds to the site’s thirty vertical feet of grade change and its irregular outline. The result is a torqued organic parterre that integrates cultivation and experimentation with public walks, a gathering space, and an outdoor classroom pavilion. The parterre contains a central lawn that expresses an arcing, moving gesture down slope and toward the adjacent historic collections areas of the Arboretum.
Movement: Integrating the Garden with the Arboretum
The circulation scheme for the project was conceived as a continuous, connective itinerary that re-scales the experience of the Arboretum for more intimate interpretive activity than may be found elsewhere on the 200-acre property. With thirty feet of vertical change, a traditional expression of garden ramps and steps links terraces to achieve universal accessibility—turning the barrier-free ethic to a distinct asset for the project.
Sustainability: Integrating Growth, Maintenance, Moisture, and Drainage
Soils on the project, blended on site to exacting specifications, were designed to provide uniformly suitable growing conditions and all-season vehicle support. The scheme addresses microclimate effects of exposure and dry conditions at terrace walls for drought-tolerant species, and a supplemental irrigation infrastructure provides capacity for hand watering in areas of greater moisture demand. These provisions satisfy the client’s low-input maintenance goals and helped form the interpretive collections framework for the project.
Collaboration: Integrating Science and Pleasure
With the terrace and bedding structure finally in place, the team of designers, horticulturists, and educators have continued to develop an evolving framework for ordering the collections. Curatorial, interpretive, cultural, and spatial criteria are balanced. Changing thematic organizations structure the site, grouping a sub-collection of endangered plants, plants introduced by the Arboretum, collections of taxonomic affiliation, and special endowed collections on individual terraces. Within those collections, plant locations are determined by cultural requirements, habit and size, seasonal change, horticultural tastes, and—eventually—turnover and replacement, after research or interpretive activity has concluded on a particular sector or individual. The shared expertise that shaped this framework integrates the landscape architect’s spatial and historical perspective with current scientific and practical aims. In turn it produced a set of guiding principles for planting instead of a fixed planting plan—recognizing the dynamic, flexible needs of living collections.
Project Resources
Architect : Maryann Thompson Architects
Environmental/Civil Engineer : Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.
Geotechnical Engineer : Haley & Aldrich
Structural Engineer : Arup
Irrigation Design : Irrigation Consulting, Inc.
General Contractor : Lee Kennedy Co., Inc.
Landscape Contractor : ValleyCrest Landscape Development
Masonry : M. F. Construction Corp
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