花园结合了现代景观设计美学与环境特殊性,将新的景观元素编织到遗址的自然系统和强烈的原生植被中，花园调解了两种强烈的情境力量：由Antoine Predock设计并于1993年完成的复杂的玻璃，石灰石和混凝土房子，以及陡峭，朝向乌龟溪。
花园的主干是从房子沿着斜坡流动的各种行走表面的连续路径。设计的关键是表面的调制：从草坪的柔软的平面土地到蜿蜒的不锈钢板的过渡，例如，硬的和空心的脚下，改变了步行穿过花园的步伐。从暴露在山坡中的暴露的聚集阶梯到沿河流的混凝土圆木的过渡，高于水流边缘的有机表面，重新强调了人体与地平面的空间关系的变化。
为了保护遗址的自然系统，干预措施的设计是低影响的。步骤是手工挖掘，并放置在一个独特的移动布局，并避免扰乱现有大树的根系的粗糙缠结。同样地，草坪上的不锈钢格子板摊铺机在地上稍微高于地下的sonotube地基上，这些地基被仔细地布置在现场以避免根损坏。在克里克的边缘，洪水和径流问题最严重，用作踏脚石的矩形混凝土“原木”在战略上对齐，以免干扰现有的径流模式。
The Garden on Turtle Creek, completed in May 1999, combines modern landscape design aesthetics with a celebration of environmental specificity. Weaving new landscape elements into the site’s natural systems and intense native vegetation, the garden mediates two strong contextual forces: the sophisticated glass, limestone, and concrete house, designed by Antoine Predock and completed in 1993, and the steep, richly vegetated slope that descends toward Turtle Creek.
The backbone of the garden is the continuous path of varied walking surfaces that flow from the house down the slope. Key to the design was the modulation of surfaces: the transition from the soft planar terra firma of the lawn to the meandering stainless steel planks that are hard and hollow underfoot, for example, alters the pace of a walk through the garden. The transition from the exposed aggregate steps feathered into the hillside to the riverside concrete logs, elevated well above the organic surface of the stream’s edge, reemphasizes the change in the body’s spatial relationship to the ground plane.
To preserve the site’s natural systems, interventions were engineered to be low-impact. The steps were hand-dug and placed in a unique shifting layout to and avoid disturbing the thick tangle of root systems of existing large trees. Likewise, the stainless steel checkerplate pavers in the lawn hover slightly above the ground on sonotube foundations that were carefully laid out on site to avoid root damage. At the creek’s edge, where flooding and runoff problems are most severe, the rectangular concrete ‘logs” used as stepping stones were strategically aligned so as not to interfere with existing runoff patterns.
