Booklet Sample Pages Examples for the Arnold Project
1 - Typical Intro Page 2/3 - History and Concept Narratives 4 - Analysis example 5/6 - Layout and Plan Illustration examples 7/8/9 - Design Intent Plans and Call outs
1 Introduction
Set in the Taconic foothills, Altamont exhibits the features loved by many of those who have settled in this region of New York. Whether a breath taking vista towards the Catskills or a momentary glance through the vibrant forest, each section of Altamont tells a story of nature, beauty and the people who live here. Over the last 30 years of ownership, Altamont has grown through acquisition of adjacent properties. These additions created a property with colorful gardens, productive agricultural fields, former agriculture fields, animal paddocks, meadows, a dominant forest ridgeline and sensitive wetlands. The majority of design efforts have focused on the Main residence gardens and grounds that occupy the highest point on site. Additional piecemeal studies and projects scatter themselves throughout Altamont without much dialogue between themselves. Despite the built objects that remind us of the fragmented and parceled history, what has always unified Altamont is the topography and ecological corridors that disregard property lines and hedgerows. The owners demonstrate their deep love of the property through near daily walks across much of the over six-hundred acres, and their commitment to the maintenance of gardens, orchards, greenhouses and rarebreed animals. The dedicated staff at Altamont perform the management and dayto-day operations with years of insight and passion. Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW) has had the privilege to comprehensively study the existing landscape and operations at Altamont for the past year. Presented here is the masterplan NBW developed through exploration, research, design and meetings with the owners and staff. From geologic and ecologic foundations to current design operations and site experiences, NBW seeks to instill new narratives further stitching together extant parcels and to offer a holistic vision for the ongoing design and development of detailed areas of the property. The design team shares the client’s ambition to firmly establish Altamont as a visionary landscape—inclusive of house, gardens, fields and forests—through the combination of enriched site experience with exemplary ecological and management goals. We, the design team, are thrilled to present the work to-date on the subsequent pages and look forward to future collaboration to further the vision for Altamont.
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2 Site Wide Design Concepts Design Philosophy: Context
The architecture and landscape design at Altamont builds on many traditions and associations. The characteristics of the landscape derive from its natural setting, cultural history and the initiative of the owners to cultivate a designed landscape. Among many influences, Altamont can be seen as building on the philosophies of English gardening traditions of the 18th century expressing the sensibilities and aesthetic judgments of the owners with the desire to create a place of experiential beauty and diversity. The English landscape in the 18th century became a ground for experimentation and philosophical exploration in landscape design, marking a distinct break from the French formal subjugation of landscapes in the 1600s. Concepts of the “Beautiful”, having qualities of smoothness and arousing passions of love, and the “Sublime”, that which excited terror and astonishment, became focal in art and landscape design discourse. “The Picturesque, emerged as an intermediate between these two, marked by qualities of irregularity, intricacy and variety. Works of Claude Lorraine, Salvator Rosa and Gaspar Poussin became visual shorthand for the Beautiful, Sublime and Picturesque respectively. Writers and practitioners such as Uvedale Price and Richard Payne Knight engaged in discussions on the Picturesque as an aesthetic quality related to composition in paintings, as well as a mode of experiential association subjective to the individual that relied on change and variety to facilitate sensory or emotional pleasure. Price and Knight both rejected the idealized landscapes of Lancelot “Capability” Brown as monotonous and dull, longing instead for diverse landscape expressions to make experience varied and interesting. Several decades later in America, Andrew Jackson Downing emerged as an influential writer and practitioner exploring the tensions between the Beautiful and the Picturesque in American landscapes. Contemporary Picturesque: Altamont, as a unique American landscape, builds on the sophisticated concepts of design and experience of place rooted in the English landscape tradition, but offers an opportunity for a contemporary interpretation. Rough and varied, ecologically rich new landscape layers bring a 21st century value to the qualities described as ‘picturesque’ in the 18th century. This approach offers an enriched experience of the place rooted in an intellectual desire that the landscape can offer an ecological beauty. While the artful design of roads and scenes interwoven in landscape layers will look to create scenes of painterly beauty, the introduction of new landscape typologies, varying in texture and scale will also contribute to the overall health of the ecosystem increasing diversity and providing gradients in the landscape that serve both aesthetic and functional goals. The result is a journey of moving through the site that is both experientially diverse and intellectually rich, moving from hilltop to valley, from highest order to outermost wild, from human cultural connections to ecological and geologic fundamentals.
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Site Wide Design Concepts | Design Philosophy: Context
The Beautiful Landscape Left, Highclere Castle, grounds designed by Capability Brown 1774-1777 Above, From Andrew Jackson Downing’s 1841 “A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America.”
The ‘Beautiful’ Claude Lorraine 1600-1682 View of La Crescenza, Rome 1648-50
Contemporary Picturesque Landscape Left, Seven Ponds Farm, designed by NBW Above, From Andrew Jackson Downing’s 1841 “A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America.”
The ‘Picturesque’ Gaspar Dughet Poussin 1615-1675
The ‘Sublime’ Salvator Rosa 1615-1673
An Italianate River Landscape with a Shepherd and his Flock
Landscape with Hermit 1660s
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Conservatory Analysis
As background to proposed concepts for expanded greenhouse vicinity and operations, NBW did a study of the current utilization of the greenhouse and surrounding garden beds with input from the head gardener and staff.
Garden
Arugula Beans Carrot Citrus Fig Head Lettuce
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Herbs (assorted) Mache Mixed Greens Peaches Spinach Tomatoes
Land Use Concepts | Conservatory Analysis
Garden Garden
The Greenhouse Complex is the operational hub for the crews, supplies and equipment needed to maintain the formal gardens, trees throughout the site, and the greenhouse and vegetable garden. The site consists of planting beds, annual beds, fencing, storage, and maintenance facilities, and is staffed with up to 16 employees during the summer season. The exterior vegetable garden has 19,150 sf of planting area for production. The greenhouse has a total area of 4,025 sf. Currently, 40% of this space is devoted to ornamental plant display, and 60% is devoted to fruit and vegetable production.
Greenhouse Production List
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Vegetable Garden List Asparagus Beans: Green/ Italian / Edamame Beets: Red / Gold / Chioggia Broccoli Brussels sprouts Cabbage : Green/Red Carrot Cauliflower Celeriac Corn Cucumber Eggplant Garlic Garlic scapes Leek Head lettuce Onion Parsnip Peas: Shelling/Sugar snap Peppers: Sweet Red / Yellow / Orange Shallot Spinach Summer squash Tomatoes: Cherries / Heirloom / Plum Strawberries Herbs (assorted)
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Walled Gardens
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Walled Gardens APPENDIX | Previous Designers | Work of John Brooks 184
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APPENDIX | Previous Designers | Work of John Brooks
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Main House Greenhouse Environs A first gesture for the area near the Greenhouse explores how latent axial realtionships could be strengthened by the creation of a series of landscape spaces between the existing Brick House, Greenhouse, Orchard, and old Greenhouse Headhouse. These spaces might stitch together this area, creating clearer circulation routes that offer new experiences within the site.
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