Olin & Overland Completes the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Amy Duong — July 10, 2024 — Art & Design
References: dezeen
American design studios Olin and Overland have completed the Marie Selby Botanical Garden expansion in Florida, which is a home powered by a rooftop filled with 2,158 solar panels. The project is part of a larger three-year masterplan which is headed by Olin with the goal to expand the Sarasota campus of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, which is an institution working to develop research and education of air plants along with native plant species.
Phase 1 of the plan was completed last year and it is made up of three new structures along with a large stormwater management system and recreational trail. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens notes "The cutting-edge LEAF, which houses parking, a garden-to-plate restaurant, a new giftshop, vertical gardens, and a nearly 50,000 square-foot solar array will make Selby Gardens the first net-positive energy botanical garden complex in the world."
Image Credit: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Phase 1 of the plan was completed last year and it is made up of three new structures along with a large stormwater management system and recreational trail. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens notes "The cutting-edge LEAF, which houses parking, a garden-to-plate restaurant, a new giftshop, vertical gardens, and a nearly 50,000 square-foot solar array will make Selby Gardens the first net-positive energy botanical garden complex in the world."
Image Credit: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
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