2007 Awards

Landscape Architectural Design | Dune Side Residence

Merit Award

Dune Side Residence
East Hampton, NY

Edmund Hollander Landscape Architect Design, PC 
http://www.hollanderdesign.com/  

This project presented the extraordinary challenge of sensitively siting a series of built landscape elements into a native maritime landscape.  With an extremely constrained schedule for completion, the landscape architects did extensive site inventory to map micro-climatic variations and transitions as the upland shad forest morphed into the landward side of native dune vegetation and topography.  Native clump shads (Amelanchier canadensis) were identified, protected and transplanted to allow for drives, walks and recreational facilities to be built within their habitat.  A carefully crafted series of decks and boardwalks was created to allow access to the beach through the native double dunes.  Native dune vegetation replaced invasive exotics which had taken hold to complete the restoration of these previously disturbed areas.