Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Fonds Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, 1936-2019
•    Série(s): Landscape architecture projects, 1947-2018
•      Projet: Wong Residence, Quadra Island, British Columbia (circa 2007), 2007-2008

Personnes et institutions:

• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (archive creator)
• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (landscape architect)

Titre:

Wong Residence, Quadra Island, British Columbia (circa 2007)

Date:

2007-2008

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• 0.01 l.m. of textual records
  28 digital files (91 MB)
  8 drawings (including 5 reprographic copies)

Présentation du contenu:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the green roof of the Wong Residence on Quadra Island, off the eastern cost of Vancouver, in the Strait of Georgia. Oberlander worked in this project in the second half of the 2000s. The residence was built in a thick and old-growth forest and "Oberlander designed the rooftop landscape as an experimental extansion of this forest system" [1] The project consists in a three landscaped roofs, with a bridge linking a larger platform to two smaller roofs by a glass bridge.

The project series contains correspondence, including correspondence with client, contractors and suppliers, project descriptions and digital photographs of the plant selection and planting work. The project is also documents through studies and sketches, such as sun movements studies and preliminary landscape sketches, and also roof plans used as reference.

Source:
[1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 96.

Numéro de référence:

AP075.S1.2007.PR01

Mode de classement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Localisation:

Quadra Island British Columbia Canada

Contient:

• AP075.S1.2007.PR01.001, Concept plans of roof, Wong Residence, Quadra Island, British Columbia, 2007
• AP075.S1.2007.PR01.002, Project descripton for article, Wong Residence, Quadra Island, British Columbia, circa 2007
• AP075.S1.2007.PR01.003, Sketches and studies of sun movements, roof plan, and sketch of landscape, Wong Residence, Quadra Island, British Columbia, 2007-2008
• AP075.S1.2007.PR01.004, Correspondence with client, contractors and suppliers, Wong Residence, Quadra Island, British Columbia, 2007
• AP075.S1.2007.PR01.005, Photographs of plant selection and planting work, Wong Residence, Quadra Island, British Columbia, 2008