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.