Great precedent (1) Structural sieve

These are some images of a project done in (I think) the late 60's for the Venice Biennale.
It's the Norwegian pavillion by Sverre Fehn.

The images are a little confusing if you don't know the project. The viewed area is an exterior court to an enclosed pavillion.

It sets up the rub between exterior and interior that we all have learned to love.

It's relationship to nature is like a 'structural sieve' porous to a select nature, over time.

Some stolen images (4)

These are a couple of images of gardens by a Swiss landscape firm called Kienast Vogt.

I like these projects because they set up two linked and opposed senses of order that help me understand what's around me, and where I stand in it.

One is a new condition inscribed within an existing condition.
One is an existing condition circumscribed by a new condition.

One of these images is pretty clear.
The other requires a bit of effort and imagination -- its a plan of train tracks that are filled with planks to create walking paths within a park.

I think that what both of these projects achieve is a really clear relationship with time into something that is built -- and incredibly thoughtful, beautiful spaces.

I like the idea of building into a landscape with some acknowledgement of a time continuum -- something existed before this, something will exist after this.

While both of these projects works with existing objects that have strong emotional associations ( be it train tracks from an industrial past or a romance-era fountain) I think it would be great to work with the landscape as the existing condition that we work (and live) in and around. There are lot of great precedents for this.