European Landscape Architecture: Best Practice in Detailing

Spain

order and form is ‘echoed’ at the different scales

At JBB, the geometrical principle of the ‘triangu-

lation grid’, which determines the infrastructure

grid, is echoed in the ‘faceted’ layout of the paths,

influences the form of paving joints, and orders

the broken volumes of the entrance building.

Ultimately the whole garden assumes the fractal

nature of these Mediterranean landscapes them-

selves

C. Ferrater envisages the garden growth as

an ‘inversion process’: ‘At inauguration, the

infrastructure made the garden and the planta-

tions were the ornaments. At maturity the plan-

tations will make the structure and the paths will

be the ornament.’

While the spatial approach and the planting sche-

mes are complex, construction details are simple,

almost spartan, with very basic treatments, unaffec-

ted materials and repetitive solutions. It seems to

make the point that, in detailing, the best solutions

are the simplest and that in JBB, complexity and

poetry should emerge from the rendered landsca-

pes and the way that they are experienced, not by

prodigious detailing.

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