美国的蜂鸟花园/Colwell Shelor事务所

发布于：2023-05-14 22:07:33

The hummingbird gardens in the United States

设计方：Colwell Shelor事务所

位置：美国

分类：花园

内容：实景照片

图片来源：A. Draizin, Bill Timmerman, Allyssa Williams

图片：9张

这个景观位于弧形的房屋墙之后，从一个被遗忘的空间，变成一个充满色彩、材质、艺术和自然的花园。这个花园展示了沙漠中美丽的空间，创造了一个放松，休闲，尊重建筑本身结构的景观。蜂鸟房屋位于Mmmy山北侧，房屋边界与自然场地结合，为自然植物的生长提供了非常良好的环境。在一年之内，这里长满了自然的缤纷植物，为蜂鸟提供了生存家园，吸引了小兔子等动物前来觅食。花园为入口处提供了更加艺术的景观，利用水泥，金属等材料创造了更多的现代艺术形式。设计师利用金属条编织的墙与建筑墙相结合，提供了一个重要的观察点，利用植物形成包围房子的背景空间。

译者：Jevin

This landscape jewel in a tiny, previously unused space between curving planes of house walls, once a forgotten space, has become a treasured outdoor room, abound with color, form, texture, art and nature. The garden showcases and celebrates desert morphology and the astoundingly beautiful genus that thrive in the harsh arid environment. The design balances the client’s desire to honor and respect the geometry of the original architecture designed by Will Bruder, whilst creating a contemporary courtyard that provides a place to retreat and relax, but is also viewed from within the residence as a living sculpture.

The Hummingbird House is sited on the declivitous embankment on the north side of Mummy Mountain. The incline along the road features nearly vertical walls of exposed schist. Matching boulders were salvaged , transported to the property and sited to appear to naturally flank the walls to allow for establishment of native trees and shrubs, providing a dense growth for privacy and reduce erosion. The landscape on the perimeter of the property was restored, re-vegetated and enhanced to seamlessly blend into the surrounding flora of Mummy Mountain. After less than a year, native and colorful shrubs and cacti spill onto the driveway, teeming with hummingbirds, quail scurrying across the drive, and rabbits foraging for food.

This colorful, native landscape alongside the entrance drive gives way through open rusted pipe fencing to a more formal landscape in the art-centric courtyard. Here, a spare use of materials creates a modern aesthetic – concrete, rusted steel, sculptural plants and a ground plane of Dichondra. The artfully formed concrete risers unite the previously bifurcated levels of the guest rooms and master bedroom; rusted steel slot planters with simple, yet deliberate plantings slide past one another.

Mayme Kratz’s brilliant resin gabion wall stitches together the courtyard and house wall, providing a magnificent focal point in the garden. The circular concrete tree planter provides equilibrium at the end of the outwardly curving courtyard space. Mature Palo Verde and Ironwood trees, with their twisted branching have been preserved, becoming a powerful backdrop for the gardens and a constant vocabulary throughout the property. The majority of the new plants can thrive on rainwater alone after establishment