New Industrial Building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn, NY
The building is wrapped by two main ecosystems, a coastal forest and an open meadow. These landscapes recall the area’s original coastal marshlands and contribute significantly to water and air quality as well as carbon sequestration. Offsetting their industrial environs, these garden spaces also provide green relief and seasonal interest for the immediate surroundings and the building’s users.
Several key sustainable strategies are embedded in the landscape design: Rain water is collected form impervious surfaces and then channeled through the landscape, providing irrigation before arriving in a wet meadow infiltration garden.
Brooklyn, NY
The building is wrapped by two main ecosystems, a coastal forest and an open meadow. These landscapes recall the area’s original coastal marshlands and contribute significantly to water and air quality as well as carbon sequestration. Offsetting their industrial environs, these garden spaces also provide green relief and seasonal interest for the immediate surroundings and the building’s users.
Several key sustainable strategies are embedded in the landscape design: Rain water is collected form impervious surfaces and then channeled through the landscape, providing irrigation before arriving in a wet meadow infiltration garden.
Florham Park Complex
Florham Park, NJ
Proposed Bluestem meadows and restorative plantings around the existing creek will increasing the amount of critical nesting and foraging habitat for rare avian and invertebrate species of special concern. Additional proposed tree plantings will provide viable roosting and nesting habitat and create connective patches within the matrix of the site, enhancing biodiversity, a key to the ecological health of the site. The central plaza is a continuation of these habitats within a formalized geometry, maximizing all open space for ecological processes.
Kathleen Bakewell was the project manager and lead landscape architect for this project while employed at Balmori Associates, prior to founding Brook Farm Group.
Florham Park, NJ
Proposed Bluestem meadows and restorative plantings around the existing creek will increasing the amount of critical nesting and foraging habitat for rare avian and invertebrate species of special concern. Additional proposed tree plantings will provide viable roosting and nesting habitat and create connective patches within the matrix of the site, enhancing biodiversity, a key to the ecological health of the site. The central plaza is a continuation of these habitats within a formalized geometry, maximizing all open space for ecological processes.
Kathleen Bakewell was the project manager and lead landscape architect for this project while employed at Balmori Associates, prior to founding Brook Farm Group.
