Meiling Hot Spring Golf Club

The Facts

Location: Hainan Island, China
Size: 33000 Sq M
Partners: Mco. Architects
Client: Withheld
Budget: N/A
Completed: Under Construction

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Myklebust Company and Schmidt Curley Golf Course Architects on the White Stone Mountain Golf Village Hotel. Located adjacent to the Changling reservoir near Qionghai on the west coast of Hainan Island, China, the new 18 hole golf resort features a golf clubhouse that cater to vacationing golfers and spa clientele. The hotel and clubhouse are designed to accommodate large golf tournaments and have been carefully sited to maximize views to the 1st and 18th holes, natural reservoir, and surrounding landscape. The hotel features natural, hot- spring spa pools and invigorating cold pools, outdoor dining terraces, as well as a floating tea pavilion and boat dock. Villas have been carefully integrated into the golf course layout to provide both views and direct access to the golf course and open space corridors. Adjacent to the golf course is a mixed use development with service apartments, town houses and an executive golf course, reservoir and mountains beyond.

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ALOHA at Clearwater Bay Resort Sales Center and Beach Club

The Facts

Location: Hainan Island, China
Size: 10000 Sq M
Partners: Mco. Architects
Client: Withheld
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2012

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Myklebust Company on the new Beach Club/Sales Center for Clearwater Bay Resort Project on the south coast of Hainan Island, China. The new beach club/sales center sits prominently on the west edge of the property directly on the pristine white sand beach. The new facility includes three different show villas, a large sales center and numerous outdoor pavilions all interconnected with unique garden spaces and water features, designed in both modern and traditional Chinese aesthetic. The site design minimizes grading impacts to the site and uses a natural wetland to cleanse and detain storm water; all areas are enhanced by endemic plant species.

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ALOHA at Clearwater Bay Resort Master Plan

The Facts

Location: Hainan Island, China
Size: 1 Sq Km
Partners: Mco. Architects
Client: Withheld
Budget: N/A
Completed: Under Construction

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Myklebust Company on the resort master plan for the new resort “Aloha”, on South Clearwater Bay, a one kilometer square resort site on the south coast of Hainan Island, China close to the nearby Resort town of Sanya. The new resort rests prominently on approximately 1000 meters of beach frontage, adjacent to numerous proposed five star resorts located along a 12 mile stretch of white sand beach. The resort master plan de-emphasizes the use of the automobile, providing a network of nature trails and pedestrian walkways connecting the various types of residential unit types, retail areas and open space amenities to the beach. Palm tree-lined “Ocean Boulevard” is the main vehicular drive along the ocean frontage parcels connecting the two, 5-star resort hotels with the central island podium towers and retail promenade. The site planning maximizes ocean views and access to the public beach front plazas, where the user can enjoy numerous pools, lounges, cabanas and cafes. The kilometer long beach front network of boardwalks and sport courts create an active “Waikiki vibe” along the gorgeous white sand beach of Clearwater Bay.

Resort Masterplan

Tree Typologies

Spatial Typologies

Main Pedestrian Circulation

Vehicular Circulation

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UCSD Argo Hall

The Facts

Awards: ASLA SD Merit Award 2016
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 1.3 Acres
Partners: Snipes-Dye, Michael Wall Engineering
Client: UCSD
Budget: $2 Million
Completed: 2015

About the Project

The site improvements to Argo Hall are the final piece of the Revelle College renovation. landLAB has played a large role in the renovation eastern portion of the college with the designs of the adjacent Blake Hall and Revelle Café Projects. The overarching goal of the landscape improvements was to forge a new and more sustainable landscape typology for the campus. This included the elimination of large expanses of turf, recontouring campus edges and the reintroduction of native riparian plants and trees used for the biofiltration of stormwater. The design for Argo Hall takes this design framework one step further creating a storm water filtration system that is a feature and gateway element to the college and historic Revelle Plaza. The 100 foot long Cor10 bioswale showcases the biofiltration of water and provides the surrounding areas areas stormwater with a modern design that is both functional and beautiful.

Site Plan

Vicinity Map

“The Current” Site Plan

“The Current” Site Section

Design Goals

Hydrology Goals

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California State University San Marcos Student Union

The Facts

Awards: ASLA SD Merit Award 2014
LEED Rating: Gold certified
Location: San Marcos, CA, USA
Size: 13.3 Acre
Partners: Hornberger+Worstell, PCL Construction
Client: CSU San Marcos
Budget: $33 Million
Completed: 2014

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Hornberger + Worstell architects and PCL Construction on the new Student Union, which is located prominently in the center of campus at CUSSM. The design of the Student Union is focused on sustainable site planning and design principles, enhancing pedestrian access to the facility and through the site, while creating the “living room” for the campus. The new buildings were carefully integrated into the existing hillside, creating new outdoor spaces that enhance interaction of visitors, students and faculty from the campus at large. A series of interconnected indoor-outdoor spaces, each with its own character and identity, are combined with indoor program and include a large amphitheater that provides areas for both large and intimate gatherings in a play of light and shade. The LEED Gold design features green roofs, rain garden/ bioswales, low water use native planting, photovoltaics and is planned to be minimum LEED silver facility.

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Elevated Wetlands

The Facts

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Size: 14500 Sq M
Partners: Noel Harding Studio
Client: Canadian Plastic Industry Association
Budget: N/A
Completed: 1999
Publications:

Bennett, Paul. “Slouching Towards Toronto.”
Landscape Architecture Magazine 1 Mar.
2000: 72-77

“Elevated Wetlands, Toronto, Canada.
” Paisea / El Elemento Vegetal 1 Sept.
2009: 34-39

McLeod, Virginia. “The Elevated Wetlands,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.”Detail in Contemporary
Landscape Architecture. London: Laurence King,
2012. 46-49. Print.

About the Project

Neil Hadley collaborated with Artist Noel Harding on the “elevated wetlands” public art project in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The elevated wetlands were designed to intrude and locate itself, as being evident from the speed of a major traffic artery into downtown Toronto. The project consists of six polystyrene containers filled with recycled plastics acting as hydroponics planters for native plantings from the Don River Valley. Water from the polluted Don River is pumped via solar photovoltaic pumps into the sculpture, and is filtered through the planted containers, and then cascades into large ground level wetlands, returning to the river significantly cleansed. As a functioning sculpture commissioned by the Canadian Plastics Industry Association, the work draws attention to the importance of wetland ecosystems, and more importantly the rate at which they are disappearing. Subsequently, the City of Toronto has identified and designated the site as one of seven green tourism locations.