Elevated timber boardwalk and seating area overlooking forested
A landscape and architecture integration precedent by DELVA showing multi-story residential buildings embedded within a steep forested hillside, viewed from an elevated timber boardwalk.
- What we like about this project
- The buildings are nearly swallowed by the dense forest canopy, making the architecture secondary to the landscape.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- metal
- native-planting
Visual identifiers
- timber-boardwalk
- forested-hillside
- recessed-balconies
- canopy-integration
Style tags
- biophilic
- contemporary
- site-responsive
Visual tags
- landscape-integration
- woodland
- residential
- boardwalk
- natural-topography
- outdoor-living
- Geometry
- An elevated timber boardwalk extends horizontally across a steep wooded slope, framing views toward multi-story rectilinear buildings integrated into the tree canopy.
- Facade system
- Glass and dark metal framing with recessed continuous balconies across multiple stories.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam elevated timber decking on a reinforced substrate; concrete and steel structural frames for the residential volumes.
- Spatial scale
- Human scale at the foreground viewing platform, contrasting with the multi-story residential blocks nestled in the valley below.
- Lighting
- Dappled overhead daylight filtering through dense tree canopy, creating soft highlights on the timber boardwalk.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, immersive, and deeply connected to the surrounding woodland environment.
- Environmental context
- Steep hillside forest with native understory planting, mature deciduous trees, and natural boulder outcrops.
- Spatial experience
- The vantage point provides an expansive framed view from a wooded overlook down to lower terrace levels and residential volumes.
- Composition rhythm
- Foreground horizontal deck boards intersect with vertical tree trunks and rectilinear building facades.
- Style reading
- Biophilic contemporary landscape architecture
- Program
- Residential development in a natural forest setting
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape
- Materials
- timber, glass, metal, native-planting
- Visual identifiers
- timber-boardwalk, forested-hillside, recessed-balconies, canopy-integration
- Style tags
- biophilic, contemporary, site-responsive
- Visual tags
- landscape-integration, woodland, residential, boardwalk, natural-topography, outdoor-living
- Geometry
- An elevated timber boardwalk extends horizontally across a steep wooded slope, framing views toward multi-story rectilinear buildings integrated into the tree canopy.
- Facade system
- Glass and dark metal framing with recessed continuous balconies across multiple stories.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam elevated timber decking on a reinforced substrate; concrete and steel structural frames for the residential volumes.
- Spatial scale
- Human scale at the foreground viewing platform, contrasting with the multi-story residential blocks nestled in the valley below.
- Lighting
- Dappled overhead daylight filtering through dense tree canopy, creating soft highlights on the timber boardwalk.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, immersive, and deeply connected to the surrounding woodland environment.
- Environmental context
- Steep hillside forest with native understory planting, mature deciduous trees, and natural boulder outcrops.
- Spatial experience
- The vantage point provides an expansive framed view from a wooded overlook down to lower terrace levels and residential volumes.
- Composition rhythm
- Foreground horizontal deck boards intersect with vertical tree trunks and rectilinear building facades.
- Style reading
- Biophilic contemporary landscape architecture
- Program
- Residential development in a natural forest setting
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape