FO NBCUniversal Campus 16 Garden Lounge Caitlin Atkinson
A landscape and pavilion precedent by Field Operations featuring timber vertical louvers that seamlessly integrate outdoor corporate lounge spaces with lush native planting.
- What we like about this project
- The dense vertical timber slats offer partial enclosure while maintaining complete visual permeability with the surrounding garden.
Materials
- timber
- steel
- glass
- native-planting
- agave
Visual identifiers
- timber-louvers
- outdoor-pavilion
- agave-planting
- garden-lounge
Style tags
- contemporary
- biophilic
- landscape-led
Visual tags
- landscape-architecture
- outdoor-space
- biophilic
- corporate-campus
- shaded-terrace
- Geometry
- Linear louvered pavilion structure set amidst lush landscape beds containing agave and grasses.
- Facade system
- Open-air timber louver screen and slatted canopy roof.
- Structural guess
- Steel column supports with timber framing for canopy and screen walls.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled outdoor pavilion and garden seating area.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight filtering through overhead tree canopy and timber slats, creating speckled shadow patterns.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and shaded, balancing natural greenery with warm architectural timber elements.
- Environmental context
- Urban campus landscape with mature shade trees, succulent ground cover, and adjacent modern corporate architecture.
- Spatial experience
- Transition from sunlit native planting beds into the shaded, intimate shelter of a slatted timber pergola.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical timber slats create a rhythmic screen that frames views between the lounge and garden.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic landscape design
- Program
- Corporate campus outdoor lounge and garden
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- landscape
- Materials
- timber, steel, glass, native-planting, agave
- Visual identifiers
- timber-louvers, outdoor-pavilion, agave-planting, garden-lounge
- Style tags
- contemporary, biophilic, landscape-led
- Visual tags
- landscape-architecture, outdoor-space, biophilic, corporate-campus, shaded-terrace
- Geometry
- Linear louvered pavilion structure set amidst lush landscape beds containing agave and grasses.
- Facade system
- Open-air timber louver screen and slatted canopy roof.
- Structural guess
- Steel column supports with timber framing for canopy and screen walls.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled outdoor pavilion and garden seating area.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight filtering through overhead tree canopy and timber slats, creating speckled shadow patterns.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and shaded, balancing natural greenery with warm architectural timber elements.
- Environmental context
- Urban campus landscape with mature shade trees, succulent ground cover, and adjacent modern corporate architecture.
- Spatial experience
- Transition from sunlit native planting beds into the shaded, intimate shelter of a slatted timber pergola.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical timber slats create a rhythmic screen that frames views between the lounge and garden.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic landscape design
- Program
- Corporate campus outdoor lounge and garden
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- landscape