PROJECT DETAILS
completed: 2024
budget range: over $50,000
design scope: medium
outdoor living in the busy urban Mueller neighborhood comes with many obvious benefits, but achieving balance among the abundant social connections along the sidewalks, while holding onto an adequate private refuge is crucial — completed in 2024, this recent ecotopes project sits nearby the iconic Mueller Control Tower + features a smart assortment of entertainment spaces, including a novel Japanese-inspired fountain, nestled within a variety of richly planted areas — these inventive spaces practically grow out of a series of steel-framed terraces, neatly containing gravel surfaces to support a wide assortment of outdoor leisure activities — shaded by an interlocking arrangement of vine-covered steel trellises, our clients have redefined the modern garden gathering with ecotopes’ own line of outdoor lounge furniture that draw upon mid-century modern aesthetics
FABRICATION


pedernales
picnic seats

hueco
planter basin

pecos
graveltop

vert
screens
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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, 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

