MEATSCAPES by NICOLAS LAMPERT

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This is the landscape for a huge library building emerged in the  pastoral area. Horizontal elements; the row of Quercus along the drive  and a linear earthwork, anchor the volume of the building to the  landscape, while they provide the structure of the garden configuration.  Three gardens, west, north, and east garden, surrounding the library,  are characterized by the relationship between two major landscape  elements: pathway and earthgrade. In the west garden, a linear walkway  ascending along the slope of long earthwork configutrates a strong  foreground against the mountain Nogou Hakusan. In the south, the same  linear walkway plays with a series of gentle mounds and provides a kind  of picturesque scene to the main reading room. Then, in the east, the  relationship between the walk-way and earthwork is more intimate. A maze  distorted on a large mounds creates a surrealistic scene as well as the  playful place. Another element characterizing gardens is the letter.  The last letters of different alphabets in the world are curved here and  there on the linear walkway. Tree names are printed on the seatwalls  set along the walkway in the clump. These may echo with the literal  world of the library. ( http://sciencelinks.jp )

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