Design Award of Merit
Charlotte Residence, Charlotte, NC
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape
Architects, Charlottesville, VA
Simple landscape forms complement and integrate architecture
and natural setting. . . Play of textures and shapes harmonizes
with the house. . . Low-key, relaxed, invites outdoors in.
2004
Professional Awards Jury Comments
Embedded within a gentle knoll on a five acre wooded site outside
Charlotte, this house and garden reflect the clients’ desire
to live a life connected to the land around them. The landscape
architects worked very closely with the client from the outset to
incorporate a site program of walking and hiking trails, a swimming
pool, an entrance drive and court, as well as areas for locating
outdoor sculpture into a tightly woven plan. The embrace of natural
light, specific site orientations, and tree preservation were fundamental
to the site plan. The result is a relatively simple ensemble of
building, garden, and landscape that reinforces seamless connections
between outside and inside.
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