The Bamboo Garden, Parc de la Villette, Paris
Designed by Alexandre Chemetoff
Anita Berrezbeitia and Linda Pollak write about this project in Inside Outside as a garden conceived out of material considerations as opposed to organizational form. In this case, the material is water and soil (the entire garden is subterranean, with massive retaining walls carrying water through its highly visible weep holes), and pre-existing infrastructure, again, carrying water through the park. I've never been, but I imagine the experience of this garden is incredibly visceral-- feeling the cool water weeping from the walls, ducking under concrete culverts and weaving in and out of dense bamboo clusters.
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