"This is a historic home that was restored and the landscape architect really captured the spirit of the place. It’s so natural and the scale is exceptional. Well done!" – 2014 Awards Jury

"它是一栋历史悠久的住宅的复苏，景观设计师真正抓住它的精髓。如此的自然，尺度宜人。非常棒！"- 2014年评委

Le Petit Chalet by Matthew Cunningham Landscape

情景化的耐用设计恢复了沿着缅因州山漠岛的Somes Sound西边的阿卡迪亚国家公园内被破坏的历史悠久的住宅。雨水综合管理策略塑造了新的地貌，带来优雅的分层和完善的排水解决方案。移植可持续的原生植物固定土壤，使栖息地再生，并恢复野生动物生态。工艺精湛，从本地回收的花岗岩用干法砌成和谐的花园。随着生态平衡的恢复，也开始上演季节性的美景。

A context-driven, durable design heals a devastated historic property within Acadia National Park along the west edge of Somes Sound on Maine’s Mount Desert Island. Comprehensive stormwater management strategies shape new landforms, resulting in elegant grading and thoughtful drainage solutions. Native, sustainable plant colonies stabilize soils, regenerate habitat, and reveal wildlife patterns. Exquisitely crafted, dry-laid masonry built from locally reclaimed granite gives the garden a unified, established feel. With balance restored, brilliant seasonal drama unfolds.

滋养心灵

山漠岛险峻的花岗岩山，海上冷杉林和像挪威一样的七英里长的峡湾，一个多世纪以来吸引了许多追求浪漫的游客。1800年底以来，小型避暑别墅已经发展为大型年间度假屋，随着工业化的进行，吸引了那些夏天可以外出避暑的人们到此处滋养他们的心灵。超验主义者梭罗和爱默生普及了“通过自然得到救赎 – 一种救赎人们心灵的冷静药膏”的说法。

到了20世纪初，阿卡迪亚国家公园吸引了来自世界各地游客，受到欧洲启发的折中主义在建造山漠岛的夏季建筑物时发挥了重要作用。这在菲纳德点的浪漫瑞士小屋更加明显，1916年这里曾是私人住宅地的公园范围。格兰德酒店和Le Petit木屋酒店建在戏剧性的飞山的690英尺顶峰上。19世纪50年代Le Petit木屋酒店有时被移到北边距离超过100’的地方，被分为两个不同的独立部分。现在与阿卡迪亚有关的图像是经过John D. Rockefeller, Jr.和景观设计师Charles Eliot及Beatrix Farrand精心构思并塑造的。他们的合作产生了通往许多岛屿的令人难以置信的道路网;坚固的砖石和天然植物巧妙地结合在一起，并经久不衰，于是诞生了阿卡迪亚美学。

NOURISHMENT FOR THE SOUL

Mount Desert Island’s bold, granite mountains, maritime spruce-fir forest, and Norwegian-like seven-mile fjord, have romanced tourists for more than a century. By the end of the 1800’s, small summer cottages had grown to the scale of grand,year-round homes, as the encroachment of industrialization invited those with means to migrate from the city for the summer to nourish their souls.

Transcendentalists Thoreau and Emerson popularized the idea of “nature as salvation––a sobering medicine that anoints the human spirit.”By the early 20th century, Acadia National Park attracted visitors from all over the world, and European-inspired eclecticism played an important role in shaping the summer architecture of Mount Desert Island. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the romantic Swiss chalet on Fernald Point, where a private residential easement was granted within the boundaries of the Park in 1916. Grand Pre and Le Petit Chalet were built at the base of the dramatic 690-foot peak of Flying Mountain.

Sometime during the 1940’s, Le Petit Chalet was moved more than 100’ north and the property was divided into two distinct and separate parcels. The imagery we now associate with Acadia was carefully conceived of and shaped by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., along with landscape architects Charles Eliot, and Beatrix Farrand. Their collaborations produced an incredible network of carriage roads throughout much of the Island; rugged masonry and native plants were skillfully combined, and the enduring, Acadian aesthetic was born.

▲ Dry-laid fieldstone retaining walls form terraced planting beds that traverse steep new topography. Colonies of edible, low-bush blueberries surround terrace edges, and the garden nourishes hungry visitors. Photo Credit: Matthew J. Cunningham

干砌的石墙形成有露台的植被床，穿过新的陡峭地形。移植低灌木型蓝莓环绕露台边缘，花园可以滋养游客们的心灵。

目标范围

项目始于响应想要立即恢复2008年9月汉娜飓风之后大变样的悲痛客户的要求，大量云杉树像牙签一样被刮倒，从地表连根拔起现有的厚厚的保护植被层。暴雨冲刷着裸露的砾石，所有的残留物都被暴露于地表上，随着泥土的流失而被迅速被冲入海中。海上云冷杉林在东部沿海地区比内陆更受到高风速和天气的影响，而且干扰往往更频繁剧烈。因此植物群落主要是连续性的 – 充满活力，不断发展。像地毯一样郁郁葱葱的原生苔藓，地衣和蕨类植物可以固定和保护恶劣天气中戏剧性的地形，许多野生动物也栖息在这片土地上。强健的狐狸、狼、鹿、红松鼠和花栗鼠在这片土地上不懈努力，形成小岛，并在这些绝对恶劣的自然条件中形成了新的花园。特殊的地点提出了不同寻常的挑战。房子离Sound至少距离75英尺，根据州和联邦的保护和海岸线保护的限制规定来指导修复房屋。作为项目的主要建设方，向公司领导的多个子顾问提交报告，并直接与监管机构直接合作，指导修复的每一步。景观设计师仔细观察周围环境，有四个主要目的：（1）开发出可以快速使雨水远离房子的总体规划;（2）稳定场所，并防止移植进一步损害敏感的环境;（3）再生零散植被群落;及（4）建设具有阿卡迪亚精神的持久而有意义的户外空间。

▲Sister structures since 1916, Grand Pre and Le Petit Chalet stand prominently as fine examples of European-inspired eclectic summer architecture on Maine’s Mount Desert Island. Le Petit Chalet is later moved, becoming it’s own private parcel.

Photo Credit: Matthew J. Cunningham

自1916年以来的姐妹结构，格兰德酒店和的Le Petit木屋酒店是缅因州山漠岛的欧洲风格的避暑酒店的典范。而后Le Petit木屋酒店搬迁，形成它自己的风格。

CONTEXT INFORMED GOALS

The project began in response to a distressed client whose immediate commitment was to restore her devastated property after Hurricane Hanna dramatically altered the parcel in September 2008.

Massive spruce trees were toppled like toothpicks, uprooting thick, protective layers of existing vegetation from the landscape. Torrential rains scoured the site to bare gravel, until all that remained was an exposed, depleted, and raw cross-section of the earth that was rapidly eroding into the sea.

Maritime spruce-fir forests in the Downeast region are subject to higher wind and weather stress than inland sites, and disturbances tend to be more frequent and intense. The resulting plant community is primarily successional––dynamic and constantly evolving. Lush carpets of native mosses, lichens, and ferns stabilize and protect the dramatic topography in severe weather, and a bounty of indigenous wildlife inhabits the land and sea.

Robust populations of fox, coyote, deer, red squirrels, and chipmunks work tirelessly to shape the Island, and the new garden thrives within these absolutely untamable natural conditions.

The exceptional site presented extraordinary challenges. The home stands less than 75 feet from the Sound, and a number of state and federal conservation and shoreline protection restrictions guided the rehabilitation of the property. As the prime on the project, the submitting firm led multiple sub-consultants, and worked directly with regulatory agencies to guide every step of restoration. The landscape architect’s careful observations of the surrounding context shaped four primary goals: