Signature Flight Boston Logan
KMDG’s landscape strategy was threefold – to significantly contribute to traveler, crew and staff experience; to advocate for and implement sustainable strategies in an overtly ‘unsustainable’ airport landscape; and accommodate the difficult programmatic and technical issues of the site.
Signature Flight Boston Logan
Boston, MA
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Signature Flight
Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) -
7,000 SF
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Complete
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Chan Krieger Sieniewicz (now nbbj), architect
Schenkel Shultz Architects, architect
KMDG, landscape architect -
Cultural + Adaptive Reuse
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Christian Phillips Photography
Boston is host to Signature Flight’s flagship facility serving private and corporate jets.
As part of Massport’s requirement that all new facilities be LEED certified, this project is the USGBC’s first certified fixed base of operations (FBO) type. KMDG made a successful case for the inclusion of a landscape ‘waiting space’ to be carved out of the overly paved and impervious ground plane at the airport. The resulting forecourt garden is united with the interior architectural spaces by a wood scrim-wall that frames the New England inspired landscape.
Here, that language is distilled to a simple aspen grove underplanted with fern and groundcover, a lawn that allows functions and press events, and a zone of ornamental grasses, symbolic of the salt marshes along the airport’s coastal perimeter.
Awards
2009 Merit Award in Design, Boston Society of Landscape Architects
2008 Honor Award, Boston Society of Architects
2007 Merit Award in Design, AIA New England
