Walden Center & School Campus Renovation

This private school was established in 1958 by a group of nine founders who built the school themselves to provide an environment where children could discover their individuality through artistic expression and learning. This campus renovation was an opportunity to look at the schools goals and values over the past 50 years and determine how they could manifest themselves in the program and design to create a sense of place, while looking ahead at how the school philosophy and community will evolve in the next 50 years. Working with Siegel & Strain Architects, BAY TREE DESIGN interwove flexible spaces and multi-use elements that honor the Founders, encourage community connection, and support activities that will engage the whole child through learning and play activities.

Project Information

Client: Walden Center & School

Location: Berkeley, CA

Size: 0.5 Acres

BAY TREE DESIGN

A landscape architecture firm serving Berkeley, Oakland, and the greater San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Tree Design, Inc. provides collaborative design and planning services to a wide range of clients. We strive for three-way sustainability: environmental, community and economic. We support the renovation of our cultural construct for landscapes with healthy ecological processes, community reflection and beneficial children’s landscapes in our work. We seek to make the sum of the parts greater than the whole with each project we help nurture from concept to physical construct.

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