a melodie in metal
varied outdoor lounging venues cradled within a lyrical, curvilinear steel screening wall that meanders through naturalized woodland setting
PROJECT DETAILS
completed: 2025
budget range: over $50,000
design scope: large in 2 phases
take a walk through a series of outdoor rooms designed as an arrangement of patios + pathways lying within an enhanced native woodland habitat — our client challenged us to nurture their existing collection of trees, which consists of regional oaks, elms + big-tooth maples
smart steel landscape terraces link up the varied entertainment lounges + contemplation spaces featured in the design — the garden is appointed with a wide assortment of ecotopes signature furniture items + a few custom pieces
FABRICATION
components: outdoor cooking arrangement, dry creek, steel edge, fence, irrigation, lighting, steel + stone patio, shade structure, steel terrace
living systems: BARRIL fire pit, CHISOS loungers, CONCHO mini-planters, ESCARPMENT bench, HIBACHITO (18″ grill-piece), HUECO planter basin, MARFA lights, PECOS graveltops, PEDERNALES picnic set, RANCHERO loungers, VERT screens
pedernales
picnic seats
hueco
planter basin
pecos
graveltop
vert
screens
CONCEPT DESIGN PHASES
| phase I | phase II |
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VEGETATION
cactus: Red yucca (HEPA8), Texas nolina (NOTE)
sunny perennials + shrubs: Yarrow (ACMI2), Butterflyweed (ASTU), Chocolate daisy (BELY), Sacred datura (DAWR2), Silver ponyfoot (DIAR2), Purple coneflower (ECPU), Texas star hibiscus (HICO2), Tulipan del monte (HIMA6), Blackfoot daisy (MELE2), Gaura (OELI2), Passionflower vine (PAIN6), Mealy blue sage (SAFA2), Autumn sage (SAGR4), Globemallow (SPAM2), Woolly stemodia (STLA17), Four-nerve daisy (TESCS), Esperanza (TEST), Zexmenia (WEACH)
shady perennials + creek: White mistflower (AGHA4), Yellow columbine (AQCH), Horsetail (EQHY), Texas lantana (LAUR2), Turk’s cap (MAARD), Rock rose (PALA13), Lyreleaf sage (SALY2), Dwarf palmetto (SAMI8), Cedar sage (SARO3), Fall aster (SYOB)
bunch grasses: Sideoats grama (BOCU), Blue grama (BOGR2), Texas sedge (CATE7), Inland sea oats (CHLA5), Gulf muhly (MUCA2), Big muhly (MULI)
SURFACE
vegetated surface(s): hardwood mulch, zoysia
functional surface(s): basalt, garapa hardwood, finely crushed limestone, steel
