Jesuit Garden

The project proposes underground parking in a popular municipal garden established in the 1960s in a residential neighborhood. The landscape design challenges the outdated, fenced park by proposing the concept of a ‘park-plaza’ that is spatially open, dynamic and engaging to ensure that the updated design responds to the rapidly densifying urban context. I undertook in-depth appraisal of the existing vegetation, and proposed innovative solutions for in-situ protection of existing mature trees, the ‘book-ends’.
Maintaining the same ratio of hardscape to softscape cover, the landscape design adds a gallery floor that oversees the archaeological permanent installation, integrates car and pedestrian access to the underground parking in the park design.