Smart Museum Courtyard
Regional & Urban Design Award Submission
Seeking to animate the existing public courtyard of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, we proposed a public landscape of varying surface “patches” that attract and support multiple programs and ambiances. Large portions of the existing paving were removed to make room for a more varied palette of indigenous grasses and assorted permeable ground cover. One of the patches is three dimensional -- it is a five foot high hill used for outdoor classes, reading, lounging, and socializing. The new quilted patch landscape attracts students, staff, and visitors to participate in a variety of cultural and ecological programs such as the creation and appreciation of art, interdisciplinary gathering, growing and harvesting edible plants, ad hoc and formal performances, bird/people watching, picnicking, sun bathing and snow sledding.
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Smart Museum Courtyard
- Landscape Architect
- Chandra Goldsmith Landscape Architect
- Architect
- UrbanLab
- Client
- Smart Museum of Art - The University of Chicago
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Category
- Institutional
