Enhancing the Centerpiece

INTERSTICE Architects’ San Francisco Botanical Garden Fountain Plaza project revitalized the existing fountain plaza in the city’s famed botanical garden, located in the center of Golden Gate Park. The fountain plaza’s design simplifies and unifies the entire space to provide a generous outdoor venue for receptions and events around the fountain centerpiece.

Glistening Tranquility

The fountain at the San Francisco Botanical Garden was retiled to provide a glistening and animated focal point. The vision for the project includes installation of donor benches along the perimeter of the space, which can be constructed for relaxation amid the space’s tranquility. The resurfaced plaza offers a rhythm that transforms the fountain into the focal point of the garden. The uninterrupted paved plaza is a place of tribute and commemoration, a meeting place for visitors and docents, and an important venue for festivities.

 

Tribute and Orientation 

INTERSTICE resurfaced the plaza with a granite paver that leads up to the central fountain, providing pavers and a granite paver band surround the central fountain. The pavers provide opportunities for tribute inscriptions by donors, while the granite paver band allows the inscription of names of the individual gardens to provide orientation to garden visitors.

• CAMPUS/CULTURAL
• Landscape