Berkeley Residence

Berkeley Residence

The composition of the garden was developed to accentuate the long and narrow lot and subtle topography while providing connection between the modernized Berkeley Bungalow house, studio and garden. The subspaces within the garden reflect the family’s interests of entertaining, edible gardening and outdoor cooking via as a succession of outdoor rooms. The garden wraps around the narrow side yard to provide framed views of lush landscaping from the windows to enlarge the garden’s effect and evoke a sense of green enclosure around the bungalow. The plant palette, delimited by planting zones based on the garden’s existing microclimates, integrates a mix of California native species and other plants to which the owners were emotionally connected.

Project Information

Client: Private Client

Photography: Caitlin Atkinson

Architecture: Mikiten Architecture

Size: 2,500 sq ft

Built: 2022

BAY TREE DESIGN

A landscape architecture firm serving Berkeley, Oakland, and the greater San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Tree Design, Inc. provides collaborative design and planning services to a wide range of clients. We strive for three-way sustainability: environmental, community and economic. We support the renovation of our cultural construct for landscapes with healthy ecological processes, community reflection and beneficial children’s landscapes in our work. We seek to make the sum of the parts greater than the whole with each project we help nurture from concept to physical construct.

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