The document outlines plans to transform an area of oceanfront parkland in Miami Beach, Florida into a sculpture park called the Altos del Mar Sculpture Park (ADMSP). The objectives are to create a unique cultural and educational asset for the city while enhancing the recreational experience. The plans include four landscaped "rooms" featuring undulating paths and a variety of surfaces to display sculptures representing different styles. The park will also include a butterfly habitat, community programs, and a rotating exhibition of sculptures.

1. LANDSCAPED GALLERY SPACE

3. THE
OBJECTIVES

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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
continue per the site plan and design of
ArquitectonicaGeo. It will combine to provide a sense
of peace and tranquility, even though Collins Avenue
runs along its western edge.

7. THE DESIGN

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Lawn
Wayfinding helps the wanderer choose a
path within the landscaped gallery rooms

14. The pathways will be from recycled materials

15. 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.

16. Tree Allées Open Views Into Park

17. 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.

18. Dunes serve as backdrops for the Sculptures

19. 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.

20. Maritime Garden Creates Invitation to Go In

21. 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.

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

23. The Lawn
ADMSP 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 Meditation
Live 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.

24. Community Programs at the Lawn

25. CHANGING EXHIBITIONS OF SCULPTURE

26. 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.

27. The themes of the planned exhibitions are:
The Triumph of Modernism
This 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 Technology
This exhibition focuses on towering sculptures characterized by the
rationality, purposefulness, and the predictability of architectural
design.
New Departures 1945 - 1960
This exhibition focuses on the post WWII shift toward redefinition
and re-formation of the figure.
Post Modernism and More
This 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.

28. 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.

29. Sample of abstract sculptors to be exhibited at the the Tree Allées
Constantin Brancusi Sir Anthony Caro Richard Lippold
Joan Miró John Chamberlin George Rickey
Pablo Picasso Mark di Suvero Louise Nevelson
Alexander Calder Richard Serra Tony Smith
Barbara Hepworth Henry Moore Donald Judd
Ben Nicholson Jean Arp Anne Truitt
Naum Gabo David Smith Giacomo Benevelli
Larry Bell Robert Morris Arnaldo Pomodoro
Jean Tinguely Tomas Schutte Dan Flavin
Robert Rauschenberg Isamu Noguchi Auguste Rodin
Roy Lichtenstein Lazlo Moholy-Nagy 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.

30. Sample of contemporary sculptors to be exhibited at the Dunefield
Mac Adams Rachel Whiteread Tim Hawkinson
Eduardo Chillida Jonathan Borofsky Claes Oldenburg
Yaacov Agam Louise Bourgeois Pablo Serrano
Kinji Akagawa Minoru Niizuma Robert Indiana
Constantine Andreou Art Brenner Nigel Hall
Andrew Sabin Anish Kapoor Erwin Hauer
Mowry Baden Ronald Mallory Eric Hauser
Hanneke Beaumont David Smith Richard Long
Omiros Mark Wallinger Tony Cragg
Sol Lewitt Clemens Weiss Jimmie Durham
Andy Goldsworthy Chris Booth Eric Orr
Bill Culbert Daniel Buren 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.

31. Sample of figurative sculptors to be exhibited at the Maritime Garden
Leonard Baskin Samuel Yellin Milton Horn
Ernest Trova Dale Chihully Charles Umlauf
Marisol Escobar Frederick Hart John Henry Waddell
Paul Thek Joseph Erhardy Edgar Degas
Manuel Neri Mirko Basaldella Paul Manship
Robert Graham Arturo Martini C. Paul Jennewein
Fernando Botero Auguste Rodin Elie Nadelman
Alberto Giacometti Raymond Masson Albin Polasek
Nikki de St. Phalle Roseline Granet Henry Matisse
Gaston LaChaise Philippe Roman Alexander Archipenko
Jacob Epstein Fracois Jousselin Manolo Valdes
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.

32. CHANGING EXHIBITIONS OF SCULPTURE IMAGES

33. Alexander Archipenko Constantine Brancusi
Turning Torso, 1921 Sleeping Muse, 1910

34. Richard Long
Untitled, 2000
Roy Lichtenstein
The Head, 1992

35. Robert Indiana
Love, 1964
Alexander Calder
Aluminum Leaves, Red Post, 1941

36. Anish Kapoor
Cloud Gate, 1999
Horst Antes
Figur 2, 1957

37. Henry Matisse
Reclining Nude II, 1927
Auguste Rodin
The Kiss, 1889

38. Walter de Maria
Seen 5 Continents, 1989
Tomas Schutte
Hotel For Birds, 2000

39. Henry Moore
Large Four Reclining Piece, 1973
Richard Serra
Fulcrum, 1987

40. Jean Tinguely
Fontaine Jean Tinguely, 1984
Alberto Giacometti
Walking Man I, 1960

41. Eduardo Chillida
Bundeskanzleramt, 2000
Naum Gabo
Bijenkorf, 1955-57

42. Niki de St. Phalle
Black Nana of the Three Graces, 1974
Joan Miró
Lunar Bird, 1945