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Location Chaparral Water Treatment Plant & Park 5401 North Hayden Road Scottsdale, AZ 85250
Description Completed: November, 2007 Materials: stone, native plants, storm water Nestled into the hillside at the northern end of ChaparralPark, Terraced Cascade provides a visually compelling and educational experience. The sculptural garden is an abstraction of the human body in the desert landscape, suggesting our profound affect on the earth’s natural processes.
A series of stepped, rib-like terraces and vertebrae-like cascades conduct water down the cascade in a metaphorical gesture that suggests water rolling down a human spine—a miniature watershed allows storm water to supplement the irrigation system. Planted terraces provide a demonstration of desert-conscious landscaping as well as artistically designed compositions of form. In keeping with water conservation techniques promoted by the adjacent xeriscape garden, the artwork’s objective of creatively using storm water is sensitive to the need for harvesting, using and reusing water. The collected water would otherwise by piped away, unused. A pathway winds through the artwork allowing visitors to explore the terraces, plants and sculptural cascades. Low curving walls at the edge of the pathway provide intimate seating areas within the garden—ideal for observing the xeriscape plantings chosen by the artist for their unique shapes, colors and textures.
Project Coordinator Kirstin Van Cleef
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