Masterplan in summer
Garden design | 2013 | University of Greenwich, London
The sad, still and void character of the pre-existing space makes one feel the necessity of colour, rhythm and visual context for this garden. A narrative could be set, through which the visitors’ view could be guided. In this context, Piet Oudolf was the garden designer chosen to inspire my planting design project for this venue. His modernist style and explosion of colour, as well as the architectonic elements on his gardens, helped me to project a garden much like a painting. The Bauhaus school was also an important influence for the garden design.
The garden might look wild and unmaintained but it has a strong concept, coming from the “New Perennial Movement”. High and low mixed-borders structures are used to give the impression that the garden is a field of flowers: “something pure, liberated from usefulness and beauty, something elemental which can arise in each person”. (Moholy-Nagy)
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