德州西部大牧场 | 传统与现代的生态修复设计

Texas ranch in western landscape

设计师：Christine Van Eyck

位置：美国 德克萨斯州

分类：公共环境

内容：实景照片

图片：16张

这块历史悠久的德克萨斯西部大牧场位于美丽的Chinati山脉脚下。作为一块牧场，多年来它经历了巨大的衰退，由此面临着生态整治和审美转型。当地的原生态材料和植物以及户外空间的外放和内收之间的对比形成了既传统又现代、既内敛又开放的自然景观，提升了其自然审美价值。

一套双层牧场屋以及8000英亩干旱的草地曾经是这块牧场所拥有的一切。多年的放牧对这里的土壤产生了破坏，景观因此退化。客户希望恢复这些退化的区域并建造一个包括水池、草地、绿荫、果树和花朵盛开的花园在内的低维护户外空间。通过对于这2.5英亩土地的精心设计，德克萨斯西部大牧场成为了一片草木繁茂的草原以及一个适于居住的花园。

设计尊重景观文化遗产的同时修复了其生态完整性。老旧的牧场道路被“凿开”并种上了绿草。新建的道路和停车区种有包括丝兰、龙舌兰、仙人掌果、豆科灌木和沙漠柳树在内的植物和树木，由此得到绿化。

译者: 柒柒

A historic West Texas ranch, beautifully nestled in the foothills of the Chinati Mountains, had suffered significant degradation throughout its years as a working ranch and presented the challenge of both ecological remediation and aesthetic transformation. Locally sourced materials, re-vegetation with native plants, and the contrast of exposed and enclosed outdoor spaces form a landscape that resonates with both the traditional and the contemporary, the intimate and the vast, thereby heightening a sense of place.

An existing ranch house, bunk house, and 8,000 acres of arid, south sloping grassland were once all that composed this West Texas Ranch. Ranch roads and grazing from its years as a working ranch had compacted soils and degraded the landscape. The client wished to restore these degraded areas and integrate a low-maintenance outdoor gathering space, pool, lawn, shade, fruit trees, and flowering gardens into the ranch landscape. Through the careful design of 2.5 acres, West Texas Ranch is now at once a thriving desert grassland and place-appropriate residential garden.

The design honors the cultural heritage of the landscape while repairing its ecological integrity. Old ranch roads have been ‘chiseled’ and are re-vegetated with native grasses. The edges of new roads and parking are softened by native plantings that include grasses, yucca, agave, prickly pear, candelillia, apache plume, mesquite and desert willow.

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