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A regenerated coastline at dusk, planting and water flowing as one system

Master Planning

LOTL

The idea

A landscape that grows with the coast

A futuristic regional landscape where planting, water and terrain flow as one system. The concept was sketched by Martha Schwartz Partners and Sou Fujimoto, then generated by us from rules instead of drawn by hand.

Area

750 ha

Our role

Landscape parametric design

Stage

Concept visioning

Client

Confidential

Sketch to system

Drag to see the sketch become a model

We turned the hand sketch into parametric definitions that generate the planting, water and terrain patterns, then delivered a full 3D model.

The concept sketch and the parametric model of the same area
Concept sketchGenerated model
Concept sketch with notes on grid and clamping
Parametric studies of flow lines, pattern fields and planting

The result

Three ways the landscape lands

Planting that follows the contour

Rows of olive, native shrubs and flowering beds run along the slope, so the hillside reads as one planted landscape.

Terraced planting across a hillside with a village aboveTimber screened buildings stepping up a planted hillsideAerial view of planted valleys between desert dunes

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