Glenstone
Zhao Zichen   Apr 13.2020
PWP Landscape Architecture has designed a restraint and its contemplative landscape for this private museum within a focus on integrating the natural environment, architecture.

Introduction

“In this private museum in Potomac, Maryland, set amid 230 acres of rolling hills, streams, meadows, and woodland paths, the landscape architect has integrated the natural environment, architecture, and works of art into a seamless sensory and intellectual experience. Though large in scale, the project’s power comes from its restraint and its contemplative character. This is a museum site where the natural world is in the foreground, creating a visitor experience that extends beyond art and architecture. Glenstone is an impeccably composed landscape, with its beautiful interior Water Court and two miles of walking paths, trails, and bridges that pass through a dynamic landscape of 8,000 trees and indigenous plants, all punctuated by world-class art.”
– 2019 Awards Jury

Reason to Be Selected

The landscape of the Glenstone create a system that is a tourist experience that transcends art and architecture. The project won 2019 ASLA General Design Award of Honor.

Highlights:

the designed natural world

Details

The Glenstone Museum is a 230-acre site in the Potomac River area of Maryland, not far from Washington DC, and is a museum of modern and contemporary art. The site was originally a series of scattered residential green spaces. The designer transformed these dozens of additional suburban residential land and integrated the originally scattered resource-intensive suburban space into a water-defined ecological and social production. Meaningful landscape space.
The designer designed a new museum experience by reshaping the natural characteristics of the land, introducing local flora and fauna, footpaths, bridges, and a series of restored grasslands and woodlands, creating a dynamic landscape that changes seasonally. The design and implementation of the landscape emphasize the systematic methods of water management, reforestation, grass regeneration and landscape maintenance. 
Creating undulating terrain, planting trees and rainwater management strategies constitute an integrated landscape system that reduces the use of water resources.

Conclusions

The landscape of the Glenstone was completed by landscape architects in collaboration with design experts, artists, ecologists and a non-profit foundation ,will helps strengthen cultural experience and expression, by creating a a designed woodland and traverse this 200-acre designed landscape on foot which aims to create an evolving spatial and sensorial journey.

 

FULL STORY:

https://www.asla.org/2019awards/641548-Glenstone.html

https://www.gooood.cn/2019-asla-general-design-award-of-honor-glenstone-by-pwp-landscape-architecture.htm



Lat: 38.8138
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Type:
Region: NorthAmerica
Scale: Building
Field: Innovation
City: Cleveland