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One of the strategies of smart growth and sustainable communities is to promote infill development, Botaniko adopts and embraces this concept. Botaniko, as the name suggests, is a community where the outdoor environment & lush landscape takes center stage. The project is located at the City of Weston, Florida. It is a 123-acre (50 hectare) master planned residential development with 125 modern home sites.
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Landscape Design Workshop provided the master plan for the entire community and completed the landscape architecture design for the common space as well as for the individual homes.
Site Context
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Botaniko is an infill site located near the edge of the Everglades National Park, a world heritage site with an ecosystem dominated by water & wetlands. Since 1900 the everglades has been under tremendous pressure from development and according to the United States Geological Survey it lost 50 percent of the original wetlands as a result.
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The development site was a part of the Bonaventure Golf Club. More then 4-decade old, this golf course was struggling with high maintenance cost and declining demand. Subsequently, the client decided to re-purpose it as a single family community.
Design Intent
The guiding idea was simple, if we want to reduce the pressure on the Everglades we have to re-evaluate current development within the urban area and redevelop existing under-utilized spaces in a resilient way.
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Landscape Design Workshop recognized the importance of water, Influenced by proximity to everglades. A fundamental decision was to make water a key design feature, maximizing water views for the future residents. The design included reconfiguration of the lakes while maintaining on-site storm water storage and connectivity to existing lake system.
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The design creates an indoor-outdoor continuum, connecting modern architecture with the environment using lush, native-dominated, planting. Outdoor spaces with wide-ranging scale are weaved into the design; as intimate as a pool side sitting area and summer kitchen, or as expansive as open space with walkways and trail system.
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In this project Landscape Design Workshop distilled the essence of the surrounding environment and used it as a guide. What emerged from this investigation was a resilient community featuring the importance of water and strong relationship between modern architecture and open space.
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Botaniko
Landscape Architecture & Planning: Landscape Design Workshop
Client: Terra Group
Photography: Landscape Design Workshop & Avatar Productions