Contemporary villa in Venice Beach, California
This is a full make over project including:
- design process;
- & landscape implementation.
Demolition phase: 100 hours.
Implementation: 4 weeks total.
Going from an existing tropical look to a contemporary coast line yard.
- First challenge: grading the land to make it interesting; so, it’s not just about planting, but also about shaping.
- Second challenge: organizing the space to bring privacy, and create a dynamic in the entire garden, from the forefront of the lot to the back where the villa is located.
- Third challenge: the budget.
This project includes a concrete slab terrace, a decomposed granite lounge area, a tropical wood board walk, a tropical wood deck, a small arrival court for 2 cars, a firepit, a fountain, and a vegetable garden.
- Venice Beach contemporary garden
- Tinted concrete slabs, tropical wood board walk, African Boxwood (Myrsine Africana)
- Myrsine Africana, contemporary materials (tropical wood, tinted concrete)
- Decomposed granite installation, compacting phase
- Tisiano on the new board walk, in charge of the implementation of the decompose granite surface for the future lounge area
- Construction of the firepit (framing) – 3.5″ concrete thick walls – tinted, & smooth finish. Contemporary shape and material. Notice the Orangerie planter in the back
- Small ‘arrival court’ made of reinforced decomposed granite. It allows water to percolate in the ground and offer a smooth surface, environmentally correct.
- Laying down the decomposed granite in the frontyard. It will allow two park 2 cars. And it’s environmentally correct.
- concrete slab, Mondrian style
- decomposed granite driveway
