Our job as landscape architects isn’t just to place the sculpture: it’s also to make sure that it’s integrated into the overall design. Since this is a three dimensional piece, we’re thinking of putting a path around it for strolling. It will need to be placed on a concrete pedestal – a place to add integral color to the “mud” so that the pedestal looks more like the site’s reddish, Martian-looking soil.
The sculpture and surrounding landscape could look like this, with a curb to define the edge of the driveway, a path for viewing the sculpture, and low-growing native grasses surounding a colored concrete pedestal.