a melodie in metal

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PROJECT DETAILS

completed: 2025

budget range: over $50,000

design scope: x-large

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 entire setting is further cradled within a lyrical, curvilinear steel screening wall that weaves through naturalized plantings

FABRICATION

components: outdoor cooking arrangement, dry creek, steel edge, fence, fountain, irrigation, lighting, steel + stone patio, planter, shade structure, steel terrace living systems:CONCHO mini-planters, ESCARPMENT bench, HIBACHITO (18″ grill-piece), HUECO planter basin, MARFA lights, PECOS graveltops, PEDERNALES picnic set, VERT screens + trellis arrangement

pedernales

picnic seats

hueco

planter basin

pecos

graveltop

vert

screens

CONCEPT DESIGN

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VEGETATION

understory: Texas persimmon (DITE3) 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 or ipe hardwood, finely crushed limestone, metal or steel

vegetated surface(s): hardwood mulch, sunny wildflower patch or apache collection surface water flow: river gravel or honeycomb boulders, coarse limestone gravel, flag stones functional surface(s): basalt, garapa hardwood, coarse limestone gravel + finely crushed limestone, metal or steel, shou sugi ban