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Tagesreste- A Garden For Kazuo Ishiguro

Context & Layout

This design for the SLANT international garden design competition is inspired by the works of Kazuo Ishiguro, especially his interpretation of memory. The garden attempts to create symmetry within an assymetric site through the use of two paths, one made out of smooth concrete and the other paved with rough hewn granite. The elliptical paths maximize the area for movement within the site and create spaces through their intersection that are used for a reflecting pool, a high Taxus Baccata hedge and a glass sculpture. The glass pyramid shows, through reflection and distortion, visitors things they could never see directly. It is representative of the prism through which we see our past. It reveals the sky above and the sea beside, it reflects things hidden to view, ever changing both in time and space. As one walks along the paths, so does the planting. Lady’s Bedstraw is used with a background of purple moor grass, with the red of the Cornus Sericea partially hidden behind the gold of the moor grass. 

 
Spring, St .Andrews
Tagesreste- A Garden For Kazuo Ishiguro
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Tagesreste- A Garden For Kazuo Ishiguro

This design for the SLANT international garden design competition is inspired by the works of Kazuo Ishiguro, especially his interpretation of me Read More

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