Park Loggia

Strategically located a block from Central Park, the Park Loggia’s common roof terrace orientation and configuration frame a robust axial view corridor between the Hudson River and the Park. Despite the terrace’s programmed function as a multi-use shared open space amenity roof terrace, its shallow and long linear spatial proportion appeared more suited to a private residential garden. Each adjacent interior amenity room commands views directly onto the terrace and toward the buildings immediately across the street. The terrace’s 7th-floor elevation and three exposures called for improved privacy and a comprehensive vegetated overhaul to create a terrace landscape destination for the residents successfully. A tall, clipped Hornbeam hedge, planted at the roof’s parapet edge, established immediate privacy for interior spaces and a series of garden rooms envisioned to break up the terrace’s long and narrow configuration. The Hornbeam’s narrow and densely foliated form serves as a visual and spatial backdrop against which complimentary planting and landscape design elements are composed to accommodate various social gathering and activity spaces. The spatial efficiency of espaliered vine trellis panels, secured to the building’s parapet walls, continued the concept of a vegetated garden wall to complete the roof terrace’s garden framework.

A medley of communal and social gathering garden rooms, adorned with high-performing plantings with diverse seasonal interests, emerge as organic, natural-world erosions from the terrace’s level stone floor.The versatility of the terrace’s landscape design welcomes residents with a calming and peaceful sanctuary resource as well as places for entertaining and passive recreation – all within the privacy of their urban home.