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MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTS ROOFTOP GARDEN KEN SMITH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Landscape Architecture Case Study Presented by: Anapayini S Bedare Keerthi S 8 th sem „B‟ sec R.V.S.A

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Case study on the landscape architecture of the rooftop garden at the Museum Of Modern Arts

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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

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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

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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.

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Design Concepts & Process

Initial design scheme

featuring daisy flower as an icon.

Rejected design

scheme – Field of

spinning lawn flowers.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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).

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www.worldlandscapearchitect.com

www.kwintessential.co.uk

Ksla brochure

www.asla.org

Book-

KSLA urban projects, Jane Amidon.

Bibliography