Projects
iRobot Headquarters
Bedford, Massachusetts
RDLA was hired to design the landscape for the newly renovated corporate headquarters of iRobot. The project scope included creating a new entrance plaza with a koi pond and dining terrace. With the vagaries of a New England climate in mind, RDLA took the koi suggestion and deftly abstracted it into a more contemporary design — a placid reflecting pool that implemented Mexican beach pebbles on its base and shiny copper sidewalls to hint of fish scales and terracotta-colored koi. The overall design took on a unified feel with the fan-shaped front plaza patterned in a radial-shaped wall and pool and also subtlely repeated in the plantings. The benches on the new terrace have curved supporting bars to discreetly mimic the other radial elements. Construction was completed in fall 2007.
