Framed Flower Blues

Denver, Colorado

Design | Build: 2006

A contemporary home built in 2002 was left with only a grass covered front and back yard. When new owners arrived in 2006, a garden was designed that lived up to the striking architecture. Conceptual development led to three main design goals:

- to create additional privacy along the existing south fence line

- to install a low maintenance garden with plants that consume little water

- to generate strong architectural forms that relate to the house

The resulting design strategically placed a concrete patio as a destination far from the house, at the end of a geometric concrete tile walkway that winds through a series of raised steel planters. The privacy issue was addressed by the construction of a cobalt blue steel curtain wall along the southern fence, 9.5 feet tall by 25 feet long. With five panels cut into six smaller panels, the curtain wall forms a pattern that visually changes from different perspectives.