blasen landscape architecture

Landscape ArchitectProfile and works

Yadharsh Yathin

SRM University

1451010065

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The Urban play

• The clients' three-story minimalist modern house in the Buena Vista Park neighbourhood of San Francisco has extensive views of the city from the roof deck but little land. When we started the project, in 2004, the rear space was a very small-feeling, steeply sloped, irregularly angled, wedge-shaped patch of weeds, 25fee at the widest point by 44feet long.

Concept

The clients were determined to explore the chances to make an outdoor play space for their very young twin girls, so they wouldn't have to always drive to a playground or otherwise have the children play indoors. The clients also wanted the play space to be interesting to view from above.

The Design

• Beautifully clean, smooth, concrete walls and efficient use of space. Designed snap-tie concrete walls, coloured to match the smooth stucco of the house, to retain the terraces and planting beds, visually extending the architecture into the garden. Italian granite, the flooring indoors, is continued outdoors in the steps that float down the slope, and in the seat of a bench that cantilevers from a concrete wall.

Climb , Slide and Roll

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On the Roof

Details

Modern Oakland Hills

Traditional Napa

Modern Hillsborough

 Spatial Hierarchy 

The blue fun

Sound of Water

Play with the Flow

Bibliography

• Internet references

http://www.blasengardens.com/ http://www.houzz.com/pro/ericb/blasen-landscape

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• Magazine references Landscape Architecture magazine – February 2011

FOREGROUND / HOUSE CALL

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