Terrain work is thrilled to share the design for the Barking Club Miami. The Barking Club, in collaboration with Odd House, provides an oasis on the edge of Miami for dogs and their owners to play, socialize, and create community. The site is currently overwhelmed with Maleleucas, an invasive species that threatens the health and stability of the Everglades ecosystem. Terrain Work’s plan creates a new home for the Barking Club with a long term management strategy that eliminates the Maleleucas and reintroduces a native everglades plant palette to provide shade and habitat for creatures of the everglades and their furry friends. Learn more about the Barking Club Miami here.
Terrain Work Featured in Seoul Biennale
Terrain Work with The New York 8 (Terrain Work, MMK+, Strange Works, Emergent Studio, and Dong-Sei Kim) Productive Han-Ga-Ram is currently being exhibited in the 2023 Seoul Biennale. The proposal was selected through an international competition for ideas to help imagine the future of Seoul for the next 100 years.
Our proposal, Productive Han-Ga-Ram, reimagines the Han River as Seoul's central public space by transforming its thirty bridges and its riverfronts into a collective green network. The existing bridges and the waterfronts will be gradually transformed into a productive and performative public infrastructure. This phased process will bring about a series of pedestrian-oriented platforms and spaces where energy is produced, and air and water are filtered. Productive Han-Ga-Ram amplifies Han River's ecological potential to trigger a series of sociopolitical transformations for Seoul's next 100 years. To learn more about our proposal click here.
University of Arkansas Garvan Woodland Botanical Gardens Design Underway
Terrain Work is excited to share that we are working with Garvan Woodland Gardens and the University of Arkansas to create a new entry sequence and arrival garden for the acclaimed botanical garden. Garvan Woodland Gardens is a 210 acre botanical garden set on shores of Lake Hamilton located in historic Hot Springs, Arkansas. The garden was originally gifted to the University of Arkansas in 1985 by Verna C. Garvan to highlight the unique flora found in the Ouachita Mountains while serving as a place of learning and cultural enhancement.
Terrain Work’s design for Garvan’s new entry sequence creates a series of interconnected gardens, expanding the garden’s world class collection and serving as a place of arrival, gathering, and recreation for visitors. A wood promenade will connect the entry gardens with the existing botanical collections and architectural features within Garvan. The form of the promenade is borne out of the symbiotic fungal networks that forge ecological connections in the forest. To learn more about this project click here.
Terrain Work Creating New Entry Sequence & Arrival Garden for Garvan Woodland Gardens
Terrain Work is excited to share that we are working with Garvan Woodland Gardens and the University of Arkansas to create a new entry sequence and arrival garden for the acclaimed botanical garden. Garvan Woodland Gardens is a 210 acre botanical garden set on shores of Lake Hamilton located in historic Hot Springs, Arkansas. The garden was originally gifted to the University of Arkansas in 1985 by Verna C. Garvan to highlight the unique flora found in the Ouachita Mountains while serving as a place of learning and cultural enhancement. More to come on this special project!
Terrain Work Designs Master Plan for Wheels o' Time Museum
Terrain Work recently completed a new master plan for the Wheels O’ Time Museum in Peoria, Illinois. The museum houses an extensive collection of over 30,000 square feet of antique and collector cars, trains, airplanes, tractors, fire trucks, and bicycles. In addition it recently acquired an innovative house from the 1930's constructed entirely from steel by the renowned industrial designer R.G. LeTourneau.
Terrain Work’s master plan for the museum incorporates the newly acquired Le Tourneau house into the museum campus to create an interconnected series of wheels that each contain different gardens designed to display museum artifacts and provide a variety of programmatic functions for the public to enjoy. To learn more about this project click here.
Terrain Work to Design New Eco(tonal) Community in Illinois
Terrain Work has begun the urban design and planning for a new 33 acre Eco(tonal) Community on the site of a former tree production nursery in Central Illinois. The community will be organized around the ecotones of several landscape types: Deciduous Hardwood Forest, Shortgrass Prairie, and Littoral. A central wildlife corridor creates a link for both species and residents to move between an adjacent hardwood forest, and a shared open space surrounding a small lake. A water management plan for the community will capture and treat all runoff generated on the site through a network of bio-cells distributed throghout the community. Visit us at terrainwork.com for updates on this project.
Hancher Auditorium Ribbon Cutting & Open House
The University of Iowa is excited to announce the ribbon cutting and open house for Hancher Auditorium is scheduled for September 9th at 3:00pm! Theodore Hoerr led the design of this project while a Principal at Balmori Associates in collaboration with Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. To learn more about how this project is transforming the Art Campus landscape on the banks of the Iowa River click here.
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in the News
The proposal for the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts campus expansion in collaboration with Ennead Architects was recently featured on ArchDaily. The proposal hybridizes two archetypal landscapes, the campus and the park, cultivating a new landscape where the academy is also viewed as a civic expression of the city. Theodore Hoerr led the design of this project while he was a Principal at Balmori Associates. To learn more about the landscape design for the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts click here.
Terrain Work Launches Website!
Terrain Work, a NYC based Landscape Architecture and Urban Design office founded by Theodore Hoerr, has officially launched its website today. Come see our work at www.terrainwork.com