Storm Park
Storm Park
Viridian Planned Development
Arlington, TX
Viridian Planned Development
Arlington, TX
Storm Park is a celebration of water in a 2,000-acre master-planned community. Located between Dallas and Fort Worth, the Viridian planned development promotes an active lifestyle with new homes connected by trails to schools, retail, and civic centers. Ecological beauty and resilience take center stage as the primary organizing element with neighborhoods and infrastructure designed around a network of rivers, lakes, wetlands, and streams.
Storm Park is just a small headwater, but it demonstrates the path and impact of runoff in an expansive hydrological system. A recirculating stream captures water from the adjacent neighborhood and creates a meandering amenity with babbling brook, dramatic stone falls, and quiet pools. Following the water are nodes for respite and community gathering. Other features of the park include an event lawn, stone bridge, park shelter, multimodal trails, and picnic nodes.
Landscape architectural services included concept design, masonry walls, site layout, grading, and hardscape design.
This project was completed under tenure of SmithGroup and led by Resource Environmental Solutions (Applied Ecological Services). Ongoing ecological restoration by IndigoEcological. Photography by Shane Bernau.
Storm Park is a celebration of water in a 2,000-acre master-planned community. Located between Dallas and Fort Worth, the Viridian planned development promotes an active lifestyle with new homes connected by trails to schools, retail, and civic centers. Ecological beauty and resilience take center stage as the primary organizing element with neighborhoods and infrastructure designed around a network of rivers, lakes, wetlands, and streams.
Storm Park is just a small headwater, but it demonstrates the path and impact of runoff in an expansive hydrological system. A recirculating stream captures water from the adjacent neighborhood and creates a meandering amenity with babbling brook, dramatic stone falls, and quiet pools. Following the water are nodes for respite and community gathering. Other features of the park include an event lawn, stone bridge, park shelter, multimodal trails, and picnic nodes.
Landscape architectural services included concept design, masonry walls, site layout, grading, and hardscape design.
This project was completed under tenure of SmithGroup and led by Resource Environmental Solutions (Applied Ecological Services). Ongoing ecological restoration by IndigoEcological. Photography by Shane Bernau.
Design Concept
Design Concept
Storm Park's concept echos the water's path. Cast over a challenging exercise of grading and earthwork, the site layout ebbs and flows in a weaving experience of discovery and connection. Like the water's tributary nature, the landscape builds from quiet exploration to vocal, concert-hosting fun.
