Community Engagement at OmVed Gardens
An exterior landscape and architecture precedent showcasing multi-tiered timber retaining walls and pitched pavilions defining a community garden terrace.
- What we like about this project
- The seamless integration of dining tables directly into the lower paved landscape without hard physical barriers to the upper terraces.
Materials
- timber
- concrete
- shingle
- planting
- steel
Visual identifiers
- timber-pavilions
- retaining-walls
- paved-terrace
- garden-landscape
Style tags
- contemporary
- rustic
- biophilic
- gardens
Visual tags
- outdoor-dining
- terraced-garden
- timber-cladding
- public-realm
- community-space
- landscape-architecture
- Geometry
- Multi-tiered outdoor layout featuring a lower concrete paving terrace, intermediate stepped timber retaining walls, and pitched-roof pavilion structures set against a sloping green backdrop.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber cladding and shingle roofing on modest gabled volumes.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction resting on stepped terraced ground.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled courtyard and outdoor seating area framed by domestic-scale pavilion volumes.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight with gentle overhead illumination casting minimal shadows across the terrace and garden beds.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, community-focused, and verdant atmosphere centered around outdoor gathering.
- Environmental context
- Lush, mature garden setting with dense trees and varied planting surrounding timber-clad structures.
- Spatial experience
- The composition creates layered garden rooms, moving from an intimate foreground dining zone up through stepped landscaped terraces to distant garden pavilions.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal timber retaining tiers contrast with the vertical pitches of the shingled pavilion roofs.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rustic garden architecture
- Program
- Community garden and public engagement pavilion
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape
- Materials
- timber, concrete, shingle, planting, steel
- Visual identifiers
- timber-pavilions, retaining-walls, paved-terrace, garden-landscape
- Style tags
- contemporary, rustic, biophilic, gardens
- Visual tags
- outdoor-dining, terraced-garden, timber-cladding, public-realm, community-space, landscape-architecture
- Geometry
- Multi-tiered outdoor layout featuring a lower concrete paving terrace, intermediate stepped timber retaining walls, and pitched-roof pavilion structures set against a sloping green backdrop.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber cladding and shingle roofing on modest gabled volumes.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction resting on stepped terraced ground.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled courtyard and outdoor seating area framed by domestic-scale pavilion volumes.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight with gentle overhead illumination casting minimal shadows across the terrace and garden beds.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, community-focused, and verdant atmosphere centered around outdoor gathering.
- Environmental context
- Lush, mature garden setting with dense trees and varied planting surrounding timber-clad structures.
- Spatial experience
- The composition creates layered garden rooms, moving from an intimate foreground dining zone up through stepped landscaped terraces to distant garden pavilions.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal timber retaining tiers contrast with the vertical pitches of the shingled pavilion roofs.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rustic garden architecture
- Program
- Community garden and public engagement pavilion
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape