Hideo Sasaki

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Sub. Landscape design and ecological architecture Submitted byRITESH SHARMA | 1605013 | SEM-8 | DEPT. OF ARCHITECTURE

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HIDEO SASAKI (25 November 1919 - 30 August 2000)

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Sasaki was born in Reedley, California, on 25 November 1919. Sasaki moved to the University of Illinois where he received Bachelor of Fine Arts and Landscape Architecture in 1946. In 1948 he graduated with a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard Design School. After graduation he returned to Illinois where he instructed for two years. For the next eighteen years (1953-1970) he became a professor and the chairman of the department of Landscape Architecture of the Harvard Graduate School of Design.In 1953, he founded Sasaki Associates, incorporated in nearby Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was the president and chairman until 1980. He led the company’s architects and planners in developing many noted commercial areas and corporate parks.

He pioneered the concept of interdisciplinary planning and design. Hideo insisted that every project be put in its cultural, historical, geographical, environmental, social, and economic context.

One aspect that Sasaki Associates pays particular attention to is the environmental aspect of the land.

They have taken part in creating several “green designs.” These designs are created to enhance or maintain the health of the environment.

MAJOR PROJECTS-

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Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, 1957 Washington Square Village, Greenwich Village, New York City, 1958 master plan for Sea Pines Resort, Hilton Head, South Carolina, circa 1961 Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, Holmdel Township, New Jersey, 1962 consultant for York University, Toronto, 1962 master plan for University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1962 John Deere World Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, 1964 One Maritime Plaza, San Francisco, California, 1964 master plan for the Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut, 1967 One Shell Plaza, Houston, Texas, 1971 urban design for Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, Colorado, 1977 Forrestal Village, Princeton, New Jersey, 1986 Waterfront Park, Charleston, South Carolina, 1990 Euro Disneyland in Paris, France, 1992 master plan for The Arboretum at Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania, 1999 Performance Hall, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 2006 master plan for the Puerto Rico Convention Center District, 2006 redesign and reconstruction of the Ithaca Commons, 2015

GREENACRE PARK

New York, NY

Area : 6,000 squarefeet Completed in 1971 Greenacre Park is a “vest-pocket� park—a style of urban open space popularized in the 1970s in response to the high cost of city center land, high intensity of use, and the need to secure the park after hours. Sasaki provided architecture and landscape architecture for the park, which measures 60 feet by 120 feet and features multi-level sitting areas integrated with plantings and water displays.

A water sculpture outside the park serves as an invitation to enter. A trellis articulates the entry to the park and leads to the central sitting area, which is slightly elevated above the sidewalk. The main sitting area accommodates informal groupings of tables and chairs. Ample seating walls and broad steps provide additional places to sit during peak times such as lunch hour and a small snack bar serves food and coffee throughout the day.

Honey locust trees allow sunlight to penetrate into the area and, at the same time, create a protective canopy to screen out adjacent buildings. The entire length of one wall is a relief sculpture. Water trickles over its surface into a runnel which leads, in turn, to a main fountain at the end of the park. Water cascades over the granite face, producing a strong visual focus as well as a sound-screen against traffic noise outside.

The lower-level sitting area at the base of the water display provides visitors a more immediate sense of contact with the water.

Along the adjacent wall, a raised terrace allows an overview of the whole park and an elevated view of the water display. This terrace is roofed with a trellis and acrylic domes, and is equipped with lighting and radiant heating for evening and cold weather use.

The landscape materials provide a soft contrast to the granite, brick, and steel. Evergreens—rhododendron, azalea, Japanese holly, and andromeda— are planted amid a pachysandra ground cover.

A star magnolia, azaleas, and rhododendron provide early spring blossoms. Seasonal flowers fill urns which are placed informally about the park, and Boston ivy on the brick walls turns a brilliant red color in early fall.

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