FO NBCUniversal Campus 16 Garden Lounge Caitlin Atkinson
A landscape and pavilion precedent by Field Operations showcasing integrated timber louvers and drought-tolerant planting to create a shaded garden lounge.
- What we like about this project
- The dense vertical louvers offer complete visual privacy from certain angles while maintaining framed views outward to the garden.
Materials
- timber
- steel
- glass
- agave
- native-planting
Visual identifiers
- timber-louvers
- garden-pavilion
- agave-planting
- canopy-trees
Style tags
- contemporary
- biophilic
- landscape-led
Visual tags
- landscape-architecture
- outdoor-room
- biophilic
- corporate-campus
- shading-screen
- Geometry
- A linear timber-clad pavilion with vertical louvers sits adjacent to a lushly planted garden walk with sculptural agaves and mature trees.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber louver screen over steel structure with glazed enclosure behind.
- Structural guess
- Slender steel posts supporting a flat framed roof canopy with expressed timber joists.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale garden lounge and pathways designed for small groups and individual strolling.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight dappled through tree canopy, casting soft shadows across the planting and pavilion exterior.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, dappled, and sheltered, balancing crisp modern timber screening with organic desert planting.
- Environmental context
- Corporate campus garden setting with high-rise glazing visible in the background and mature native and drought-tolerant landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- Moving from the sunlit garden path into the shaded, louver-filtered pavilion creates a protected yet porous outdoor room experience.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical timber slats establish a steady rhythm along the pavilion edge, echoed by tree trunks in the garden.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic corporate landscape
- Program
- Corporate campus outdoor lounge and garden
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- landscape
- Materials
- timber, steel, glass, agave, native-planting
- Visual identifiers
- timber-louvers, garden-pavilion, agave-planting, canopy-trees
- Style tags
- contemporary, biophilic, landscape-led
- Visual tags
- landscape-architecture, outdoor-room, biophilic, corporate-campus, shading-screen
- Geometry
- A linear timber-clad pavilion with vertical louvers sits adjacent to a lushly planted garden walk with sculptural agaves and mature trees.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber louver screen over steel structure with glazed enclosure behind.
- Structural guess
- Slender steel posts supporting a flat framed roof canopy with expressed timber joists.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale garden lounge and pathways designed for small groups and individual strolling.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight dappled through tree canopy, casting soft shadows across the planting and pavilion exterior.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, dappled, and sheltered, balancing crisp modern timber screening with organic desert planting.
- Environmental context
- Corporate campus garden setting with high-rise glazing visible in the background and mature native and drought-tolerant landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- Moving from the sunlit garden path into the shaded, louver-filtered pavilion creates a protected yet porous outdoor room experience.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical timber slats establish a steady rhythm along the pavilion edge, echoed by tree trunks in the garden.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic corporate landscape
- Program
- Corporate campus outdoor lounge and garden
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- landscape