Studio 1111: Project 1.1: Building a vocabulary

Project 1.1 was to take a famous landscape (For me,Dan Kiley's Miller Garden in Indiana) and superimpose a canopy layer of another (For me, Peter Walker's Keyaki Plaza in Tokyo). Then we overlaid a circulation system from ANOTHER famous landscape (For me, an extensively modified Maya Lin's Ecliptic Park, in Michigan). For me, the Miller Garden was extensively structured, and to overlay another structured planting (Keyaki) but to shift the alignment, would create a space with more tension, as the different geometries interacted. I was basically creating a grand Bosque, based on the French concept of the formal hunting grounds, with long veiws down the rows of trees. By multiplying the number of trees I changed the focus from the trees themselves to the openings between the planted areas. Adding the excessively curving Ecliptic pathways would allow one to wander through the space and experience these interactions between conflicting alignments, long views, and sudden openings. Hand Rendered (with a tree stamp)