With renovations to this apartment building planned to accommodate the needs of a changing tenant base, UBLA was recently contracted to provide design services for this existing courtyard in Brighton.

The selected concept creates two seating areas connected by a winding paver path. Unwanted views are screened, and medium growing, upright trees provide a canopy and reduce the scale of the surrounding 4-story brick buildings. Lush plantings weave throughout to soften the angular borders created by building footprints. A small fountain was selected to provide the soothing sounds of water and help to lessen the traffic noise from Comm. Ave.