This miniature woodland on a small public property in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is actually composed of three miniature woodlands: An “upland forest” of densely planted saplings on a berm separates the park from the street; a “midland forest” takes the shape of an urban grove with seating and small flowering trees; and a “lowland forest” at the tip of the triangle features wet-tolerant species above a subterranean cistern for collecting and cleaning stormwater. Triangle park is also a laboratory of sorts, allowing conservationists to observe which tree species are best suited to the Cambridge environment.
Team: Chris Reed and Joonyon Kim with Albert Chen (Stoss Landscape Urbanism); Sookyung Shin (Stoss Landscape Urbanism); Han Yu (Stoss Landscape Urbanism); Hongfei Li (Stoss Landscape Urbanism); Shirley Yang (Stoss Landscape Urbanism); David Conway (Nitsch Engineering); Paul E Kassabian (Simpson Gumpertz & Heger); Eric Ganz (Thompson Engineering Company Inc); Michelle Tessier (Horton Lees Brogdon Lighting Design); Jeff Bowman (Irrigation Consulting); Michael Agonis (Pine + Swallow Environmental); Lisa Stone (Kleinfelder); Chris Nickerson (Argus Construction Corp)
Award of Merit: Landscape Architecture
Triangle Park
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Triangle Park is composed of three miniature woodlands on a small public property.