a landscape alive
built around family fun + outdoor activities in west austin
PROJECT DETAILS
VEGETATION
canopy: Texas red oak (QUBU2)
understory: Texas buckeye (AEGLA), Roughleaf dogwood (CODR), Texas pistachio (PIME4), Fragrant sumac (RHAR4), Texas mountain laurel (SOSE3), Mexican buckeye (UNSP)
cactus: Agave americana (AGAM), Red yucca (HEPA8), Twisted-leaf yucca (YURU)
sunny perennials + shrubs: Flame acanthus (ANQUW), Winecup (CAIN2), Silver ponyfoot (DIAR2), Purple coneflower (ECPU), Texas star hibiscus (HICO2), Blackfoot daisy (MELE2), Sedum (SEDUM), Four-nerve daisy (TESCS), Zexmenia (WEACH)
shady perennials + creek: White mistflower (AGHA4), Yellow columbine (AQCH), American beautyberry (CAAM2), Chile pequin (CAAN4), Buttonbrush (CEOC2), Blue boneset/mistflower (COCO13), Texas lantana (LAUR2), Turk’s cap (MAARD), Rock rose (PALA13), Scarlet sage (SACO5), Dwarf palmetto (SAMI8), Cedar sage (SARO3), Texas betony (STCO), Fall aster (SYOB), Coralberry (SYOR)
bunch grasses: Bushy bluestem (ANGL2), Texas sedge (CATE7), Inland sea oats (CHLA5)
FABRICATION
living systems: hibachito, rift planters
SURFACE
surface water flow: river gravel or honeycomb boulders, coarse limestone gravel, flag stones
functional surface(s): garapa hardwood, coarse limestone gravel, finely crushed limestone, metal or steel, polygal
URBAN ECOLOGY
watershed: WMS2: Williamson Creek
location: chimney corners, austin
ecological condition(s):creekside, shady woodland, sunny edge
