Seymour Street

This multi-unit student residential building, in proximity to the Dalhousie campus in Halifax, is designed to incorporate a number of sustainable design initiatives, including an extensive green roof, a diversity of indigenous plant material, and grey water capture systems. Brackish developed a landscape plan that takes cues from the architectural forms and reinterprets them into landscape elements in both plan and elevation. Along the street frontage, sloped planters with grasses allude to coastal wave motion, while in the two courtyards, shade gardens provide contemplative gathering spaces.