The new center campus landscape construction was carefully coordinated between the Wheeler School, Pressley Associates Landscape Architects and Shawmut Construction. Comprised of several projects, ranging from new construction to site restoration, the highlight for this community school is the newly constructed Center Campus landscape. Equally striking as the improvements to the Center Campus landscape, were the changes undertaken on Wheeler’s east campus recreational area. A new garden reception space nestled adjacent to two school-owned residences has extensive landscape lighting created for small events.
Dan Miller, PhD, the head of school, recently remarked that one of the best decisions he has made for the campus was to hire a landscape architect to focus on school’s outdoor spaces and learning environment. The landscape architect worked with the head of school, administrators, educators, students and parents to achieve the goals established by the Wheeler community. Landscape enhancements to the East Campus recreational area were completed in 2007 with a construction budget of $1,100,000.

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John Kett, landscape architect with Reed Hildebrand in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will explore how his design firm works with clients and consultants to ensure that landscape management plans achieve both design and ecological goals. David Maynes, project manager with the landscape architecture firm Richardson & Associates in Maine, explains how his firm uses a site’s plants and materials, ecological patterns and processes, and layered histories as inspiration and anchor. RIASLA Mission: “The purpose of the Chapter shall be the advancement of knowledge, education, and skill in the art and science of landscape architecture as an instrument of service in the public welfare. Construction planning was carefully coordinated between Wheeler, Pressley Associates Landscape Architects and Shawmut Construction. Indigenous rocks were hand-selected from school-owned fields and woodlands by the landscape architect, with the assistance of a geology teacher.

Learn how this deeply immersive approach achieves landscapes that strengthen and enhance the relationship between people and place. The landscape architect led goal-setting workshops, conducted faculty interviews, and produced and tested multiple concepts to arrive at the best campus design solutions. This two-day conference will explore crucial aspects of the native design process, beginning at the scale of individual species, and gradually zooming out to include plant community design, ecological master planning, and methods for creating sophisticated ecological designs within the context of current as well as emerging landscape practices. In response to a comprehensive campus master plan, the Wheeler School initiated landscape improvements that transformed the campus.

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