The Design Worked better in San Francisco
It is always interesting how much different a project looks in real life than it does on paper. The funny thing about designing roof gardens is that you design them from inside to look out unlike most garden where your designing them from afar to look in and around it. When I entered these two garden show I was told by those who had done it before DO NOT LET PEOPLE WALK THROUGH YOUR GARDEN. Well, I knew I would have no garden to look at if people did not walk into it. In San Fran, the stairs could be positioned in the the front of the Penthouse which allowed the path to draw focus directly to through center. Mark Campbell was also able to build out the narrow section of the roof floor about two feet which really opened up the garden. This simple adjustment made the garden much more open and balanced in San Francisco.
