Hawthorne's small 10,000 square foot property is located in a highly desirable urban neighborhood just south of downtown Sarasota. The new owners recognized the value in the mid-century modern home and appreciated how each room was connected visually with the site and adjacent garden spaces that put the natural environment on display, but the landscape exhibited little relation to the modernist architecture and even less cohesion to the surrounding neighborhood. DWY harnessed the strong planar forms of the modern architecture to create equally bold exterior spaces. With a distinct modern vocabulary, the landscape intervention transformed the exterior environment into a series of interconnected spatial experiences that respect the site and blur the distinction between indoors and out. The result of the design is a fully realized regional experience of modernism that accommodates the climate of South Florida and the owners’ lifestyle.
