sweet life on deck
a hardwood deck that breaks with convention + becomes the living heart of a vibrant landscape
PROJECT DETAILS
completed: 2024
budget range: over $50,000
design scope: medium
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an assortment of constructed garden elements, filled with a biodiverse arrangement of native plants, hold this deck together as the spatial center featuring ecotopes’ own collection of LIVING SYSTEMS planters
ecotopes formed a design partnership with the project clients, a family of bonafide plant enthusiasts + community activists (an awesome combination), who developed not only a space for themselves, but also a public corner seating space around the neighborhood mailbox
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
concho
landscape planters
hueco
planter basin
escarpment
cantilevered bench
rift
landscape planters
CONCEPT DESIGN
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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, seeded wildflower patch
surface water flow: river gravel w/ honeycomb boulders, limestone flag stones
functional surface(s): basalt, garapa hardwood, finely crushed limestone gravel, metal or steel, shou sugi ban
