Hoerr Schaudt designed the landscape and public plazas of this exciting new cultural institution designed by Perkins + Will. The museum’s relationship to its site represents the harmonious togetherness of man and nature, an important concept in Chinese culture. The landscape design incorporates a sweeping green roof that rises with the nautilus shape of the building, and links the museum with an adjacent sculpture park. A ‘primordial forest,’ which consists of wild and untamed planted landforms edged with granite rocks, is one of several elements designed as both learning experience and social space.
Click here for a digital tour of the future museum
Hermann Park is a 445-acre public park located in the heart of downtown Houston. Fifteen acres of the park are dedicated to the Garden Center, the city’s central hub for gardening education, community gatherings, gardening shows, and garden club meetings. Hoerr Schaudt is redesigning the Garden Center. To date, the firm has worked with the Hermann Park Conservancy in a visioning workshop with stakeholders and is beginning a preliminary concept phase to develop the parameters for the Center’s redevelopment.
The Vision for the Des Moines Botanical & Environmental Center creates unity between people, plants and the river. Hoerr Schaudt created a site master plan that presents a guide for future development and is used as an effective tool for fundraising. Conceptual designs in the plan illustrate new and reconfigured garden areas, a new entryway, an event garden for revenue-producing functions, and recommendations for interior upgrades that relate more directly to programming goals.
In the master plan, a Grand Allee Garden, built along a central spine that is parallel to the river, connects a ribbon of pathways that lead to exquisite garden rooms. These rooms demonstrate the countless ways to combine and accent annuals with trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses and groundcovers. Lush woodland walks spur from the pathways where plants nestle themselves within hillside pockets. A redesigned entrance improves access to the Center and highlights the unique experience to come.