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Twin Oaks Community Garden  

Twin Oaks Community Garden

Washington, DC, United States

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Twin Oaks Community Garden

Washington, DC, United States

STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SITE
The challenge with many urban public spaces is often finding room. When tasked with relocating the Twin Oaks Community Garden, the design team was left with an overgrown, little-used hillside overlooking a soccer field operated by the DC Department of Parks + Recreation. Challenges included soccer balls from the south, shade trees on the west, and accessibility on a fairly steep slope.

CONCEPT
The design called for ground-level and raised garden beds on a series of Terraces to take advantage of the south-facing slope. The team ran solar models to determine optimal layout for the majority of the plots.

PLAN
A stair climbs the hillside and connects to sections of the Path as it winds from terrace to terrace. Pavilions and Gates anchor the three corners and provide meeting space and security at the entrances. Areas along the path were designed to accommodate bee-keeping, compost piles, and a greenhouse.

PATHWAY
A concrete path provides firm footing for ADA access and gardeners with wheelbarrows. Each run is gently sloped to work with the grade, tying in to the straight run stair at the switchbacks. The garden is connected to the rest of Upshur Park via accessible sidewalks and entered from the south and north ends.

TERRACE
Garden beds are terraced behind textured concrete retaining walls with guardrails at the high points. Plots are delineated by wood strips and share a water source on each terrace.

ACCESSIBILITY
The upper terraces were designed with raised beds for universal accessibility. The L-shaped beds are narrow enough for reach, high enough for seated gardeners, and provide a central access location. The team tweaked the Parks + Rec standard detail to provide 8 durable, well-anchored beds that fit the plan.

PAVILION
A plane of greenery is lifted above the lower terrace to provide a shady place to gather. The painted steel pavilion is carefully located between the drip line of the tall oaks at the top of a steep slope overlooking the baseball field.

GATE
Entrances to the garden are celebrated with brightly colored covered gateways. The roof of the gates and the pavilion will be planted with greenery selected by the gardeners and the DC Department of Parks and Recreation.

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