This is a commercial project in Southern CA from years ago. One of the challenges was to locate the parking spaces in a narrow linear lot. Under the hot sun.
The idea was to have two rows of mirrored parking spaces in 30o and in between, and breaking with the hard asphalt geometry, an organic textured path under the trees shadows.
The (shadowless) renders here are just concepts, the type of trees were not defined at this step, the curbs and handicap parkings are not shown here.
The perspective ends up in a cactus and succulents garden.
We are selecting succulents ground cover with desert flowers, a couple of flowering native shrubs and the evergreen trees.
As I mentioned, the species were not defined at the time, because we were focused on Building and Safety construction plans. I am sharing the concepts as transition ideas organicism-hard construction geometries, full sun- shadows. Concepts by Myriam Mahiques, personal archives.
The first cluster of succulents-cactus
The two renders above are without and with the incorporation of tall cactus. Most probably I would have relocated the tall ones as focal points for the perspectives.
Here the transition concept is more clear.
The use of color is next to the building which was designed with cream colors of stucco. Then, the green is fading to the mountains. The idea was to energize the color the client had selected for the building.
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