Introduction
“An Eastern Washington fruit and produce company has used carefully designed landscape to create a headquarters site that celebrates its connection to the region’s agricultural history and creates an inspiring work environment for its employees. Surrounded by a major highway, industrial buildings, and the company’s own processing facilities, a simple earthen landform of native plantings wraps the building and courtyard to make a calming, lush, inward-focused green oasis that resembles the local ecology in miniature. A walkway cuts through the berm, providing glimpses of the surrounding hills, and a green roof on top of the lunchroom reinforces the company’s intrinsic ties to the land.”
– 2019 Awards Jury
– 2019 Awards Jury
Reason to Be Selected
The project creates a work environment representative of the company and helps strengthen their connection to the area’s agricultural history. The project won 2019 ASLA General Design Award of Honor.
Highlights:
Sculpted ViewsBlurring the Lines
Achieve sustainability in arid climate
Details
Washington Fruit & Produce Company grows and ships premium fruit around the world., Locates in a rich valley formed by the confluence of the Yakima River and the Natches River in arid Eastern Washington.
Recommended
The average annual precipitation of the site where the project is located is only 20.32 cm, but all the precipitation in the site will be collected and infiltrated on the site for irrigation of plants. The project uses neat orchards and farmland as a design inspiration to lay out the core planting areas and local rocks in a grid pattern. The structural frame layout of the building retains the original grid structure of the old barn. The planting design of the parking area uses some non-native but culturally significant tree species, such as American elm and sugar maple.
Conclusions
The landscape helps create an inspiring work environment for its employees, by celebrating its connection to the region’s agricultural history , creating a walkway cuts through the berm to provide glimpses of the surrounding hills and a green roof on top of the lunchroom.
FULL STORY:
https://www.gooood.cn/2019-asla-general-design-award-of-honor-washington-fruit-produce-company-headquarters-by-berger-partnership.htm
https://www.asla.org/2019awards/638017-Washington_Fruit_Produce_Company_Headquarters.html
https://www.asla.org/2019awards/638017-Washington_Fruit_Produce_Company_Headquarters.html
| Lat: | 47.3785 |
| Lng: | 120.448 |
| Type: | |
| Region: | NorthAmerica |
| Scale: | Building |
| Field: | Compositive |
| City: | Yakima |