GARDENS
Creating gardens within the quad introduced new diversity into the campus landscape as a way to make it more distinctive to prospective students. The projects kicked off the University’s major landscape initiative to designate the entire campus as an official botanic garden. Often campuses rely on master plans with soldierly rows of trees and monocultures that do not resonate on an individual level throughout the seasons. In contrast, Botany Pond Garden and Hull Court Garden, which are located on either side of a busy corridor in the Main Quad, are intense moments of horticulture with a level of detail designed to resonate on an individual level, such as weeping conifers and the exfoliating bark on a Paperbark Maple.