Collaborative Project with Chloe Nagraj. Work executed by myself unless otherwise noted.
Elizabeth Meyer and Emma Mendel
2019 VA ASLA Commendation Award in the Residential Design Category

conceptual strategy: pedestrian circulation integrated into areas for pause (gardening, sitting, playing, barbecuing) to create many potential interfaces for encountering both friends and strangers
collage by Chloe Nagraj




going beyond the current community garden run by an off-site non-profit, we propose edible gardens woven into the site at multiple scales and offering many levels of buy-in from residents: gardens that better serve residents nutritionallly, socially, and economically.

Site Plan executed with Chloe Nagraj. Trajectories into and out of the site organize richly layered space.

Concrete scoring patterns, planted form, benches, program areas and planting beds create lived space around each path into and out of the site.

The organizing principle of trajectories makes many opportunities for neighbors to witness each other in daily life. These cross-sections of the trajectory to the left show areas of flow (in white) layered with areas for lingering and pausing (in red), creating many interfaces for encounter in the day-to-day.