From the assignment sheet:
(9) Trees - 8' x 6" trunk, 6' x 6' x 4" canopy
Hedges - between 30'-60', 4' or 8' tall
(4) Stone walls - lengths 12', 16', 20' & 28', all 10' tall
(1) Reflecting pool - 8' x 16' x 1'0" deep
(1) Monolith - 2'6" x 1'6" x 16'
My iterations began with ceremony as the theme and tension as a secondary theme, but this changed quickly. I had also wanted to originally terrace my garden to create a slow procession. Again, this idea did not make it past one desk critique.
By the time we had to do our midterm pin-up, tension became my major theme with an emphasis put on generating a public versus private relationship. This idea was actually pulled from my cube where in I accidentally created public and private spaces through changes made after Project 2A. I wanted my cube to be able to interact with the space around it, so I chose Site B which featured a plaza directly next to the garden. The entrance to my garden was meant to serve as an extension of the plaza with the garden itself being more of a defined space.
After the midterm, I decided to simplify my concept and the overall entrance sequence to the garden. I began to work on establishing a hierarchy with the steps while also trying to make a clear and rather aggressive area of heavy tension.
The final design has an entrance where the plaza bleeds into the garden, and the stair sequence is simplified to avoid giving hierarchy to either the public or private space. From the entrance, one can stand on a clear datum line and experience both spaces: the more private tense space and the more public relaxed space. As one progresses through the garden there are areas where one can see from one space to the next, but passage is either blocked or discouraged. This is another element that I use to generate tension; visitors are forced to experience the entirety of the space, whether they decide to turn back to the entrance or continue through the cube itself.
The complete sheets:
Design a Garden for your 3D Cube composition. The garden will be a space to reflect and contemplate, and to observe the cube composition as a three-dimensional sculpture (not for dwelling). It is important to clarify that the “cube” will be re-designed as a Pavilion for Poetic and Political Readings (Project 3). The pavilion will not be the main and only arrival point. Students are required to design exterior spaces or rooms (arrival points) throughout the Garden for rest, meditation, and contemplation.
This project challenges you to compose a series of spaces using a prescribed kit of parts to orchestrate an experience based on ONE of the following four themes: ceremony, contemplation, dialogue, or tension.
The selected theme will be your main concept. However, you may explore one major concept and have supporting (or secondary) ideas or themes.Out kit of parts was as follows:
(9) Trees - 8' x 6" trunk, 6' x 6' x 4" canopy
Hedges - between 30'-60', 4' or 8' tall
(4) Stone walls - lengths 12', 16', 20' & 28', all 10' tall
(1) Reflecting pool - 8' x 16' x 1'0" deep
(1) Monolith - 2'6" x 1'6" x 16'
My iterations began with ceremony as the theme and tension as a secondary theme, but this changed quickly. I had also wanted to originally terrace my garden to create a slow procession. Again, this idea did not make it past one desk critique.
By the time we had to do our midterm pin-up, tension became my major theme with an emphasis put on generating a public versus private relationship. This idea was actually pulled from my cube where in I accidentally created public and private spaces through changes made after Project 2A. I wanted my cube to be able to interact with the space around it, so I chose Site B which featured a plaza directly next to the garden. The entrance to my garden was meant to serve as an extension of the plaza with the garden itself being more of a defined space.
After the midterm, I decided to simplify my concept and the overall entrance sequence to the garden. I began to work on establishing a hierarchy with the steps while also trying to make a clear and rather aggressive area of heavy tension.
The final design has an entrance where the plaza bleeds into the garden, and the stair sequence is simplified to avoid giving hierarchy to either the public or private space. From the entrance, one can stand on a clear datum line and experience both spaces: the more private tense space and the more public relaxed space. As one progresses through the garden there are areas where one can see from one space to the next, but passage is either blocked or discouraged. This is another element that I use to generate tension; visitors are forced to experience the entirety of the space, whether they decide to turn back to the entrance or continue through the cube itself.
The complete sheets:
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