Barker Landscape Architects
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN + PLANNING
- » BARTON STREET P-PATCH, SEATTLE, WA
- Barker Landscape Architects has been working with Westwood community members and the city of Seattle's P-Patch program to design and help build a new community garden at 34th street SW and Barton St., in West Seattle. The
final selected preferred alternative draws inspiration from the form of a
spider's web and the design stitches p-patch plots, a community gathering
area, garden work spaces and shared planting beds together across the
roughly 1/4 acre site. This now vacant lot has fantastic potential to
provide a highly visible, accessible, and sunny spot for community gardening
efforts. The existing birch tree is the lone visible remnant of site's
history as a former city pump station and the community has chosen to build
their garden around this feature. Standing at the hub of the web, the
design will protect the tree from the daily gardening activities, and use it
to mark the heart of the garden. Barker Landscape Architects gathered
information and ideas from community members at three public meetings, and
will be working with the steering committee throughout the construction of
the garden.
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3002 NW 68th Street | Seattle, WA 98117 | tel: 206.783.2870 | fax: 206.783.3212 | Barker Landscape Architects 2015