DESIGN INTENT
An infill site in northwest Calgary arrives with existing audiences. The parcels that became Enclave at the Hamptons had been open land for years, and the homeowners along their edges had organized their expectations around that fact. The design began from there, with the preservation of green space and privacy treated as given rather than negotiated.
Across ten acres, the landscape moves from maintained areas near the residences into less structured planting toward the reserve boundary, specified for fast establishment and low ongoing maintenance. The community garden, initially a modest cluster of plots, expanded through construction into a formally structured space: raised beds, retaining walls, stair access, a storage shed, a dedicated water source. It is now one of the more active parts of the development.
