LANDSCAPED GALLERY SPACE

THE OBJECTIVES

The objective is to create a unique sculpture park to serve as an cultural and educational asset to the City of Miami Beach, the North Beach community, to enhance the oceanfront parkland recreational experience. ADSMP will transform North Beach into a community, cultural, tourism and travel destination elevating the quality of life and economy not only for North Beach but the City of Miami Beach as a whole.

The objective is to accomplish this with a sculpture park that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future by utilizing subtle interventions and ecologically harmonious materials, trees and plants thereby conserving the land while using it as a park with sculptures.

Margarita Blanco from ArquitectonicaGeo created the sculpture park landscape design.

Les Beilinson from BeilinsonGomez Architects and Orlando Comas added to her design and created the preliminary and landscape plans.

Their plans include sound policies for managing the property according the highest principles accorded to ocean-front parkland by using materials such as tumbled recycled glass, recycled wooden planks, crushed shell, and coral stone which undulate and extrude creating a variety of display areas for the sculptures as well as a central lawn for community programming. These surfaces protect high traffic areas from foot traffic, and reduce irrigation demands.

The plans take into account the neighborhood context. The park will result in creating a pedestrian link to the public park spaces to the north and south, and provide current and future residents with a cultural and educational programs destination in conjunction with the other parks. The sculpture park will continue to provide a quiet and relaxing oasis in a sculpture setting. The openness of the space, views of the ocean and sky, and gently rolling topography will con t inue pe r the s i te p lan and des ign o f ArquitectonicaGeo. It will combine to provide a sense of peace and tranquility, even though Collins Avenue runs along its western edge.

THE DESIGN

Miami Beach is a barrier island formed by an accumulation of sediment on limestone shoals

Altos del Mar park is ocean front parkland within the urban framework of the North Beach community.

ArquitectonicaGEO’s design concept inspiration is an abstract interpretation of limestone geology found in Miami Beach, ocean-front parkland and urban life: all of which inform the aesthetics and layout of the space to be:

Four naturally divided rooms where the sculptures are exhibited that will change from an allée, to dunes, to a maritime planting palette with the butterfly vivarium, to a lawn which the visitor can find his way as he way-finds along undulating paths as the sculptures change from contemporary to figurative to abstract.

Wayfinding helps the wanderer choose a path within the landscaped gallery rooms

Lawn

The pathways will be from recycled materials

The Tree Allées

Seen from Collins Avenue to the driver and occasional pedestrian, they open up views into the park announcing it to the community. Paths here are made of stepping stones and coral stone bands set in lawn creating a path that encourages the user to choose their own way to come up onto the Lawn which sits in the center of the park allowing for a further discovery of the park.

Tree Allées Open Views Into Park

The Dunefield

Seen from beach and from the recreational beach walkway, it creates an invitation for the wanderer to go see what is in that dune field. Contemporary sculptures are a part of the experience while walking on recycled tumbled glass as it weaves through the sand dunes.

Dunes serve as backdrops for the Sculptures

The Maritime Garden

Seen from the beach and the recreational beach walkway, it creates the same invitation to go in and see what is in that maritime garden. Crushed sea shell and recycled wooden planks meander through dense planting areas providing backdrops for the sculptures and shady seating areas for relaxation and contemplation unless you stumble upon the Butterfly Vivarium.

Maritime Garden Creates Invitation to Go In

The Butterfly Vivarium

Located at the Maritime Garden, the Butterfly Vivarium is a simulation of the butterflies' normal habitat where they naturally live or grow.

In South Florida, many butterfly feeding and breeding grounds have been destroyed also because of urbanization, and as a result the Schaus Swallowtail and the Miami Blue native to South Florida are in the U.S. Federal List of Endangered Species.

At ADMSP these rare species will live and thrive.

The Butterfly Habitat will educate visitors of all ages about Florida native butterflies and their habitat and provide an example of conservation.

The Butterfly Habitat will educate and provide an example of conservation.

The LawnADMSP will offer the following programs to the community at the Lawn:

Guided park tours by an art historian;Art classes; Classical music, jazz or other music events that are cultural in nature Book author readings;Kite flying; Outdoor Cinema;Classes such as Yoga, Aerobics, Pilates, Ballet, Qi Gong, Tai Chi and MeditationLive butterfly releases

ADMSP will also be available for rental for limited private events such as wedding ceremonies, baptisms, bar/bat mitzvahs, birthdays, graduations, and other such events.

The types of programs listed here are a sample of the types of programs ADMSP can offer. Each can be modified for various groups and needs.

Community Programs at the Lawn

CHANGING EXHIBITIONS OF SCULPTURE

Changing Exhibitions of Sculpture!

ADMSP will curate a series of changing exhibitions of sculpture in the natural sculpture rooms. The large sculptures shall be exchanged every three years. The smaller shall be exchanged every eighteen months.

The Tree Allées exhibit abstract sculptures that consist of 20th-century Western sculpture that rejects representation and has no starting- or finishing-point in nature.

The Dunefield exhibits contemporary sculptures that consist of sculptures from World War II to the present time.

The Maritime Garden exhibits figurative sculptures that are representational and derive from real object sources such the human figure, animal figure, and any other form that retains a strong reference to the real world.

The themes of the planned exhibitions are:

The Triumph of ModernismThis exhibition focuses on the the 20th century’s most important invention in sculpture: Abstraction (art that does not imitate the appearance of things). The Fascination of TechnologyThis exhibition focuses on towering sculptures characterized by the rationality, purposefulness, and the predictability of architectural design. New Departures 1945 - 1960This exhibition focuses on the post WWII shift toward redefinition and re-formation of the figure.

Post Modernism and MoreThis exhibition focuses on the radical shifts and new currents after the 1960’s such as Minimal Art, Arte Povera, Fluxus, Pop Art, Land Art and Installation.

Changing Exhibitions of Sculpture!

ADMSP will curate a series of changing exhibitions of sculpture in the natural sculpture rooms. The large sculptures shall be exchanged every three years. The smaller shall be exchanged every eighteen months.

The Tree Allées exhibit abstract sculptures that consist of 20th-century Western sculpture that rejects representation and has no starting- or finishing-point in nature.

The Dunefield exhibits contemporary sculptures that consist of sculptures from World War II to the present time.

The Maritime Garden exhibits figurative sculptures that are representational and derive from real object sources such the human figure, animal figure, and any other form that retains a strong reference to the real world.

Sample of abstract sculptors to be exhibited at the the Tree Allées

Constantin Brancusi

Joan Miró

Pablo Picasso

Alexander Calder

Barbara Hepworth

Ben Nicholson

Naum Gabo

Larry Bell

Jean Tinguely

Robert Rauschenberg

Roy Lichtenstein

Sir Anthony Caro

John Chamberlin

Mark di Suvero

Richard Serra

Henry Moore

Jean Arp

David Smith

Robert Morris

Tomas Schutte

Isamu Noguchi

Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

Richard Lippold

George Rickey

Louise Nevelson

Tony Smith

Donald Judd

Anne Truitt

Giacomo Benevelli

Arnaldo Pomodoro

Dan Flavin

Auguste Rodin

Walter de Maria

The sculptors listed here are only a sample of the types of sculptors ADMSP will exhibit. The sculptures will depend on availability from the owner.

Sample of contemporary sculptors to be exhibited at the Dunefield

Mac Adams

Eduardo Chillida

Yaacov Agam

Kinji Akagawa

Constantine Andreou

Andrew Sabin

Mowry Baden

Hanneke Beaumont

Omiros

Sol Lewitt

Andy Goldsworthy

Bill Culbert

Rachel Whiteread

Jonathan Borofsky

Louise Bourgeois

Minoru Niizuma

Art Brenner

Anish Kapoor

Ronald Mallory

David Smith

Mark Wallinger

Clemens Weiss

Chris Booth

Daniel Buren

Tim Hawkinson

Claes Oldenburg

Pablo Serrano

Robert Indiana

Nigel Hall

Erwin Hauer

Eric Hauser

Richard Long

Tony Cragg

Jimmie Durham

Eric Orr

George Rickey

The sculptors listed here are only a sample of the types of sculptors ADMSP will exhibit. The sculptures will depend on availability from the owner.

Sample of figurative sculptors to be exhibited at the Maritime Garden

Leonard Baskin

Ernest Trova

Marisol Escobar

Paul Thek

Manuel Neri

Robert Graham

Fernando Botero

Alberto Giacometti

Nikki de St. Phalle

Gaston LaChaise

Jacob Epstein

Samuel Yellin

Dale Chihully

Frederick Hart

Joseph Erhardy

Mirko Basaldella

Arturo Martini

Auguste Rodin

Raymond Masson

Roseline Granet

Philippe Roman

Fracois Jousselin

The sculptors listed here are only a sample of the types of sculptors ADMSP will exhibit. The sculptures will depend on availability from the owner.

Milton Horn

Charles Umlauf

John Henry Waddell

Edgar Degas

Paul Manship

C. Paul Jennewein

Elie Nadelman

Albin Polasek

Henry Matisse

Alexander Archipenko

Manolo Valdes

CHANGING EXHIBITIONS OF SCULPTURE IMAGES

Alexander ArchipenkoTurning Torso, 1921

Constantine BrancusiSleeping Muse, 1910

Roy LichtensteinThe Head, 1992

Richard LongUntitled, 2000

Alexander CalderAluminum Leaves, Red Post, 1941

Robert IndianaLove, 1964

Anish KapoorCloud Gate, 1999

Horst AntesFigur 2, 1957

Auguste RodinThe Kiss, 1889

Henry MatisseReclining Nude II, 1927

Walter de MariaSeen 5 Continents, 1989

Tomas SchutteHotel For Birds, 2000

Richard SerraFulcrum, 1987

Henry MooreLarge Four Reclining Piece, 1973

Jean TinguelyFontaine Jean Tinguely, 1984

Alberto GiacomettiWalking Man I, 1960

Eduardo ChillidaBundeskanzleramt, 2000

Naum GaboBijenkorf, 1955-57

Joan MiróLunar Bird, 1945

Niki de St. PhalleBlack Nana of the Three Graces, 1974