«'outside-in’
is a garden within a garden, a contemplative space, a small universe
where landscape and architecture are fused to create an experience
capable of raising questions rather than answering them, a
live mechanism whose aim is to make us reflect on the contrast
between what we know and what we see, demanding us to constantly
negotiate the gap between physical reality and visual perception. It
is a meditation on space, light, and the possibility of infinity
as seen through the limitless reflections of a trapped narrative
meticulously fitted inside a world of two-way mirrors.»
Ulli Heckmann and Meir Lobaton Corona at the 22nd International Garden Festival of Chaumont Sur Loire, France.
«The
experience of the garden begins when the visitor finds himself
confronted with a seemingly void space, only the sound of his
footsteps walking on top of the
red
sand surface and a minimalist white box mysteriously levitating sixty
centimeters above the ground complement his experience. The
weightless, 5x8 meter
semi-cubic
volume – defined by a translucent white skin– works as a floating
canvas where a mono-chromatic world of shadows are cast, suggesting
the presence of what seams to be a tiny and inaccessible chunk of
forest confined within. Only when gazing inside –either by
crouching down and looking under it or peeking through one of the
peepholes scattered on top of the white surface – the visitor is
drawn into an illusory space in which trees and plants vanish
into the distance. The effect is attained by incorporating four
covered interior faces with two-way mirrors that create
a
seemingly infinite forest reflected in all directions.
»
