The Avery

The Avery

PROJECT DETAILS
Exterior Living Wall
Design
David Brenner
Installation
Habitat Horticulture
General Contractor
Webcor
Architect
HKS Architects
Dimensions
3 walls, approximately 1096 square feet
Location
San Francisco, CA
Completion date
May 2019
Photography
Garry Belinsky
Artist Statement

This residential courtyard features three distinct living wall installations, each responding to its immediate surroundings. The primary wall sits behind a mirror sculpture, which creates a striking visual illusion—reflecting and extending the greenery so the boundary between landscape and architecture nearly disappears. Heuchera was used to echo the building’s red brick façade, layered over a soft backdrop of Muehlenbeckia with textural highlights from ferns, including lady fern and silvery Pteris albolineata.

The remaining walls take on their own identities, using shifts in texture, tone, and subtle pops of purple to complement the architecture and low-light conditions. Together, the installations enhance the courtyard’s sense of depth and enclosure, creating a calm, biophilic retreat within the residential complex.

Living wall planting plan
PROJECT DETAILS
Exterior Living Wall
Design
David Brenner
Installation
Habitat Horticulture
General Contractor
Webcor
Architect
HKS Architects
Dimensions
3 walls, approximately 1096 square feet
Location
San Francisco, CA
Completion date
May 2019
Photography
Garry Belinsky
Project overview

This residential courtyard features three distinct living wall installations, each responding to its immediate surroundings. The primary wall sits behind a mirror sculpture, which creates a striking visual illusion—reflecting and extending the greenery so the boundary between landscape and architecture nearly disappears. Heuchera was used to echo the building’s red brick façade, layered over a soft backdrop of Muehlenbeckia with textural highlights from ferns, including lady fern and silvery Pteris albolineata.

The remaining walls take on their own identities, using shifts in texture, tone, and subtle pops of purple to complement the architecture and low-light conditions. Together, the installations enhance the courtyard’s sense of depth and enclosure, creating a calm, biophilic retreat within the residential complex.

PROJECT DETAILS
Exterior Living Wall
Client
The Avery
Design
David Brenner
Installation
Habitat Horticulture
General Contractor
Webcor
Architect
HKS Architects
Dimensions
3 walls, approximately 1096 square feet
Location
San Francisco, CA
Completion date
May 2019
Photography
Garry Belinsky
Project overview

This residential courtyard features three distinct living wall installations, each responding to its immediate surroundings. The primary wall sits behind a mirror sculpture, which creates a striking visual illusion—reflecting and extending the greenery so the boundary between landscape and architecture nearly disappears. Heuchera was used to echo the building’s red brick façade, layered over a soft backdrop of Muehlenbeckia with textural highlights from ferns, including lady fern and silvery Pteris albolineata.

The remaining walls take on their own identities, using shifts in texture, tone, and subtle pops of purple to complement the architecture and low-light conditions. Together, the installations enhance the courtyard’s sense of depth and enclosure, creating a calm, biophilic retreat within the residential complex.

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Project Overview

This residential courtyard features three distinct living wall installations, each responding to its immediate surroundings. The primary wall sits behind a mirror sculpture, which creates a striking visual illusion—reflecting and extending the greenery so the boundary between landscape and architecture nearly disappears. Heuchera was used to echo the building’s red brick façade, layered over a soft backdrop of Muehlenbeckia with textural highlights from ferns, including lady fern and silvery Pteris albolineata.

The remaining walls take on their own identities, using shifts in texture, tone, and subtle pops of purple to complement the architecture and low-light conditions. Together, the installations enhance the courtyard’s sense of depth and enclosure, creating a calm, biophilic retreat within the residential complex.

PROJECT DETAILS
Exterior Living Wall
Design
David Brenner
Installation
Habitat Horticulture
General Contractor
Webcor
Architect
HKS Architects
Dimensions
3 walls, approximately 1096 square feet
Location
San Francisco, CA
Completed
May 2019
Photography
Garry Belinsky
Landscape Architect
Cliff Lowe Associates