Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Water Garden in Tochigi

 
Photo by Iwan Baan

Today I am sharing a landscape design from 2018, a beautiful water garden in Tochigi, Japan. 

I see it as a fractal garden design with healing, calming, characteristics. Each reflection, similar and different at the same time. There is not a single detail to miss here.

The idea that architecture is a form of nature has become a maxim that the firm Junya Ishigami + Associates faithfully follows in its work, an oeuvre now enriched by the Botanical Garden Art Biotop: Water Garden in Tochigi, Japan. The singularity of this project lies in all the recycling it involves: on the one hand, Ishigami has reused hundreds of trees that were supposed to be felled altogether, and on the other, he understood that taking advantage of an existing irrigation system would be the best way to create the watery soil on which a new kind of natural environment that has much to do with architecture would be able to thrive.

Photo by 9 Monkeys (Google)

Photo by O Kaneko (Google)


‘the primary objective of this project was to create a new form of nature as an extension of nature as we now know it; the future of nature through the eyes of man. the site was originally heavily wooded before it was cleared for rice fields. later, it became meadowlands. by maximizing the environmental potential of this land, we will create a new landscape that fuses ‘density’ and ‘relationship’ which do not coexist in nature.’ says junya ishigami to designboom.

Photo by Tao Tao (Google)

Photo by Yaziret E B (Google)


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