Project Description

As a landscape architect at Manning Architects, Patrick Michaels designed a student-focused campus landscape at Tulane University. The Glazer Gardens and Bocce Court of Tulane University established a student gardening area and a lawn encircled by an array of native and naturalized plants. Included in the site design was a Bocce Court as well as seating areas for reading and reflection.

This project creates not only a space of interest throughout the year with fruit and blossoms, but also one that contributes to campus species diversity. This project was done in coordination with Steve Darwin, Tulane Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of Tulane University Herbarium, on the planting selection to ensure a good sample for diversity of native and naturalized plants within our campus. The Honey Locust and Sugarcane were plants selected to provide an educational resource to Tulane students studying local biodiversity.