SWOOSH: MINNEAPOLIS

PRIVATE CLIENT

The project program involved completely rethinking and stitching back together a traditional American-style residential landscape that consisted predominantly of large, visually dull shrubs that hugged the house. The idea was thus to pull the landscape away from the house and introduce a simple, but modern plant palate of tall and short grasses, flowering shrubs, and a few flowering perennials. The overall form of the landscape became a series of sweeping curves and swooshes to incorporate the existing trees on the site and to create a sense of movement and flow from one end of the site to the other. A terraced patio along the east side of the house - technically the "back" yard - picks up the curves begun along the west side of the house.