Design Award of Merit

Pacific Heights Residence, San Francisco, CA
Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, San Francisco, CA

Ingenious solutions for a tough site. . . Beautiful forms established in a common, small space. Beautiful, evocative presentation. . . Artistic, beautiful use of plant materials to emphasize translation and articulation of site photography. . .
           2004 Professional Awards Jury Comments

A couple with four small children approached the landscape architect to transform the sloping yard of their new home into a place for their active children to play. A large deck, clothed in woven willow panels, now overlooks the garden. The landscape architect sculpted the slope into a series of zigzagged, ramped walks traversing the hill. On the west side, a thicket-covered secret tunnel screens a slide evocative of Alice in Wonderland. Phosphorescent cables woven within the tunnel glow at night. An oversized “lawn” chair planted with live grass greets the children in the lower yard. The rear property line is screened with a 10-foot living fence of willow switches woven together on site, which will take root and continue to grow.