Built in two phases over the course of a ten-year client relationship, Hither Hill is a unique seaside residential landscape.
A maritime landscape engaging rolling mounds created by the Montauk terminal moraine and set above a coastal bluff, Hither Hill is the result of a multi-year collaboration between the client, architect, and NBW. With an eye towards conservation of existing ecologies, solar, and hydrological patterns, the design of Hither Hill is serene an unified, offering a fluid yet distinct experience of the native scrub oak forest, cultivated gardens, and coastal views.
With structures perched along a spine of woodland hills at the top of the site, terraces and gardens build on the native plant communities and offer unfolding experiences and prospect toward the ocean. Transitioning from upper woodland to scrub oak forest to beachscape, a productive vegetable garden sits at the heart of the lower landscape. Careful attention to microclimates determined the need for a wind-break border which was established through a gradient of pine, eastern red cedar, rugosa rose, and beach plum to blend with the nearby natural dunescape.
The completed landscape design creates a tranquil escape for the client's family to connect with each other through wellness, food, health, and the natural environment.
