GREENWICH MODERN

GREENWICH \ CONNECTICUT

stone ledge outcropping planted with native perennials surrounds a swimming pool with bluestone decking.

GREENWICH MODERN

GREENWICH \ CONNECTICUT

  • The design team was tasked to create a sustainable modern landscape that would complement a new, LEED certified home which would transition seamlessly into a densely wooded site in Greenwich CT. The completed landscape successfully preserves and integrates existing natural site features while incorporating the distinctive elements of the contemporary architecture as bold organizational components. While providing compelling visual interest between the sleek built environment and the natural site, the landscape design achieves a successful balance of a dynamic composition and an overall sustainable site solution.

    RECOGNITION

    Connecticut ASLA Merit Award \ 2020

    Connecticut ASLA Annual \ 2020

    COLLABORATORS

    Amanda Martocchio Architects

    Hobbs Inc.

    PHOTOGRAPHY

    Neil Landino

GREENWICH MODERN

GREENWICH \ CONNECTICUT

The design team was tasked to create a sustainable modern landscape that would complement a new, LEED certified home which would transition seamlessly into a densely wooded site in Greenwich CT. The completed landscape successfully preserves and integrates existing natural site features while incorporating the distinctive elements of the contemporary architecture as bold organizational components. While providing compelling visual interest between the sleek built environment and the natural site, the landscape design achieves a successful balance of a dynamic composition and an overall sustainable site solution.

 
 
view of the rear of a modern home with ipe decking and a bluestone bridge that crosses a water feature built into the house. Grasses and perennials surround this area.
 
 
view of the front of the modern home where bluestone retaining walls outline the parking area with rows of Gingko biloba trees juxtaposed to an ancient stone wall in the foreground.
close-up of a row of fastigate Ginkgo biloba trees.
 
higher view of the front of the modern home with an asymmetrical bluestone staircase up to the front entrance from the parking court.

 

 
close-up of perennials planted into the ledge outcropping.
 
 
 
broad view of the pool area with ledge outcropping and a gabion wall in the background.

 

 
 
close-up of the bluestone bridge that crosses the water feature bulit into the house.
detail of the gabion wall.

 

close-up of astrantia.
close-up of native Connecticut cactus growing in the ledge out-cropping.
close-up of ornamental grass.
close-up of Ginkgo biloba leaves.

 

a lower view of the front entrance from the parking court.
simple site plan of the front of the property.

 

 
close-up of the water running from the water feature.

 

 
broad view of the rear of the property with the pool in the center and the ipe deck and bridge over the water feature in the background along with the ledge out-cropping and gabion wall.