Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas, Texas

JBC Landscape Architects collaborated with Reed Hilderbrand Associates to provide specialized professional services supporting the design and implementation of advanced landscape infrastructure systems for the Fleischner Courtyard at the Dallas Museum of Art.

JBC’s scope focused on the integration of biologically amended engineered soils, a highly coordinated subdrainage system, and irrigation improvements necessary to support the long-term performance of the courtyard’s landscape design. These systems were carefully developed to work seamlessly beneath the finished landscape, ensuring durability, plant health, and user comfort within this prominent cultural setting.

The integrated soils, subdrainage, and irrigation strategy utilizes agronomically viable, sand-based structural soils designed to support decomposed granite paving while simultaneously providing adequate soil depth and volume for a bosque of trees. The layered courtyard profile functions as a stormwater management system, filtering, capturing, and retaining surface runoff within the soil matrix before gradually releasing excess water into the subsurface and stormwater drainage network.

This approach enhances water efficiency, improves soil performance, and contributes to the overall sustainability of the courtyard, allowing the landscape to thrive while managing stormwater in a subtle and highly effective manner.

Collaborators

Reed Hilderbrand