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M U S E U M O F M O D E R N A R T S R O O F T O P G A R D E N – K E N S M I T H L A N D S C A P E
A R C H I T E C T
Landscape Architecture Case Study
Presented by:
Anapayini S Bedare
Keerthi S
8th sem „B‟ sec
R.V.S.A
Project Facts
Project Name
Museum Of Modern Arts roof garden.
Location
Manhattan, New York
Architect
Yoshio Taniguchi
Landscape Architect
Ken Smith (KSLA)
Date – Designed/Planned/Completed
December 2002, January 2004, May 2005
Size
North Roof: 10,200 square feet
South Roof: 7,200 square feet
Context
Museum Tower condominium, urban
high-rise buildings around and the
Central Park which is just a few blocks
north of the tower.
Program Elements
Inaccessible urban viewing garden for
the neighboring Midtown high-rise
community.
Museum Tower
Other high-rise buildings
MOMA
Project Background & History
“Decorative rooftop”
Inaccessible, urban viewing garden and art installation.
Design consideration - weight restrictions of only 25 pounds per
square foot, zero tolerance for irrigation, no elements above three
feet in height, and low budget.
Use the already purchased black and white gravel.
History - The original 1939 museum building also had a rooftop
design element that could be read only from above and this
tradition was continued at the temporary MoMA Queens, which
had roof graphics visible from the elevated subway.
Work to be looked at and not
walked through.
Design Concepts & Process
Initial design scheme
featuring daisy flower as an icon.
Rejected design
scheme – Field of
spinning lawn flowers.
G e n e s i s O f P r o j e c t
Design Inspiration from the Japanese Zen Garden.
Islands and lakes smaller than in nature. Trees bonsai-ed.
Scale distortion more than the artificial rocks that are
stereotypical of Japanese gardens.
Simplicity and lack/void of plantation. Dry garden.
Illusion of water, raked sand,
rippling water.
Operating on different levels gives complexity.
Graphic garden.
Islands and lakes are very small compared to
nature and small shrubs are put as trees but
when viewed from far distance the whole
composition seems bigger because it is viewed
as a whole and there is scale distortion.
The little shrubs and the rocks that are
stereotypical of the Zen gardens give this kind
of scale distortion to the composition.
D e s i g n C o n c e p t
The notion of simulated nature and the simulation strategies and theories of camouflage were used to generate
the roof garden forms.
Four basic strategies – Imitation, Deception, Decoy, Confusion.
1.Imitation – blend with the
surrounding environment.
subject indistinguishable in
the setting.
Shape of skylights, vents & elevator
shafts on top the building –
minimalist geometry.
2.Deception – change the
appearance of a subject –
resemblance of innocuous nature
Central park ( curvilinear
forms)- camouflage pants – Olmsted's landscape.
3.Decoy –
Concealment of real
ones – dummy target
Folded landscape –
neither building nor
nature.
4.Confusion –
Accurate subject –
Obscure vision with
illogical targets.
C o n s t r u c t i o n & F a b r i c a t i o n
Curvilinear plan shapes translated into arcs, tangents,
straight lines taken from a pair of camouflaged pattern
pants.
Contemporary fabrication technique reduces on-site
labour.
Factory cut fiber glass panels and foam headers, using the landscape architect‟s CAD files as templates.
S e l e c t e d D e s i g n
“Deception” Camouflage.
M a t e r i a l P a l e t t e
“Deception” Camouflage.
Recycled and Factory made materials used.
Originally Phillip-Johnson bricks for headers that outlined the shapes but dropped because of budget constraint and difficulty in obtaining shapes.
The camouflage patterns were initially traced from a pair of hip-hop pants.
Pants pattern scaled and fitted into roof area.
Ground covers
Recycled black
rubber
Crushed white
marble chips
Crushed
recycled glass
Ground covers
Shrub assembly & Boulders
Artificial
boxwood shrubs
White synthetic
boulder
Black synthetic
boulder
Green fiberglass
grating
Milled foam
header
Explained the concept of the design of rectilinear and curvilinear
geometry to the clients using the examples of –
Criticism & Philosophy
Noguchi‟s work at
UNESCO
Top of Rockefeller
centre
Ken Smith is a fantastic Landscape architect, but everybody
makes mistakes.
The client wanted an artificial garden without any leaks so they
hired Smith to commit the crime of the century.
MoMA has designed such a disaster when real green roofs were all
in rage.
The artificial boxwood trees used have a life of seven years,
leaving the garden wide open for removal or new fake trees.
C r i t i c i s m
P h i l o s o p h y Commitment to public space, environmentalism, history of context.
Designs based on minimalism, irony and icons.
Certain abstractness to the project in the middle – multiple meanings (allows
openness and certain level of interpretation – central park & Japanese garden).
Peter Walker‟s minimalism, Martha Schwartz – pop approach
Randomness that is rooted to geometry (wall flowers pinned in invisible grids).
www.worldlandscapearchitect.com
www.kwintessential.co.uk
Ksla brochure
www.asla.org
Book-
KSLA urban projects, Jane Amidon.
Bibliography
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