The Hardscapes & Water Features Issue of Landscape Architect and Specifier News saw many firms submit their projects for feature consideration. A Team Effort is one of several great projects we are excited to showcase on LandscapeArchitect.com.

 
Our client had a new lake home build underway, needing significant landscape architectural problem solving. With the large size of the home, tricky setbacks, and conservation easements, we needed to come up with a plan to navigate a 17ft grade change between their terrace and their boathouse that was only 29 feet away. Additionally, we needed to provide for some substantial mitigation via a large stormwater collection system that we co-created with the project's builder and civil engineer.

The grading challenge was solved with a complicated switchback stair system with curving walls. Chases for utilities, irrigation, lighting and drainage piping were also provided for in the walls. Thousands of face-feet of veneer on the poured walls were installed during winter months. A grand stairway was made from large sawed gray granite slabs. The stormwater issue was handled with hundreds of feet of deeply buried large diameter perforated PVC piping, gathering subsurface drainage from the substantial front and rear gravel auto-courts. Our master plan called for several very large specimen trees including a massive 16" diameter European Beech tree that was dug balled in burlap and trucked on a huge low-deck trailer.

To see more Hardscapes & Water Feature projects, go to: https://landscapearchitect.com/landscape-articles/lasns-hardscapes-water-features-issue

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