Hilgard Garden
HILGARD GARDEN
Mary Barensfeld Architecture
LOCATION
Berkeley, CA, United States
TYPE
Residential › Private House
Hilgard Garden aims to provide the owners with an extended outdoor living space; a garden room.
Due to the steeply sloping site, accessibility to an upper seating area requires navigating a considerable elevation change.
To avoid taking up a large swathe of the smaller backyard square footage with a conventional stair, a ramping meandering path through aromatic groundcover and the outstretched limbs of sculptural Japanese maples was selected as a more experiential garden path.
