Work
About
Atlas

Work
About
Atlas

Eldorado

Chaam, The Netherlands

A garden for a graphic designer in a holiday park from the sixties. The garden has no fences, the contour of the surrounding mixed hedge shapes different places.

Contact

+31 6 4128 7976
joost@joostemmerik.nl
@joost.emmerik

Address

Strevelsweg 700/514
3083 AS Rotterdam
The Netherlands

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"The MFO-Park is a public park in the Oerlikon qua

"The MFO-Park is a public park in the Oerlikon quarter of the Swiss city of Zürich. The area to the north of Zürich Oerlikon railway station was once home to the extensive works of Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon (MFO), as site that has now been redeveloped as Neu Oerlikon. As part of that redevelopment, four new parks were created, including the MFO-Park, which was created on the footprint of one of MFO's buildings. The project was designed by the architects Burckhardt + Partner @burckhardtpartner and landscape architects Raderschallpartner."⁠⠀
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"The park is characterized by its modern and unusual design. The large “Park-Haus” is a double-walled steel-framed construction, 100 m (330 ft) in length, 35 m (115 ft) in width and 17 m (56 ft) high, reminiscent of a conservatory without glass. It is covered by a trellis (or treillage) and covered with climbing plants, resulting in a space that is filled by ever changing light, shadow and smells. The large hall space is broken up by four plant-covered wire chalices. The water basin planted with irises is located in a sunken area that is floored with recycled glass. The spaces between the double walls contain staircases, linking to balconies and platforms at different levels, including a sun deck high up on the roof that offers views over northern Zürich."⁠⠀
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"The MFO-Park accommodates a number of different activities. The facility is suitable for sport and games, for meetings of all kinds, or events such as film screenings, concerts and theatrical performances – all with a baroque backdrop of hedges. Small silent garden rooms with a view into the hall are created in the spaces between the walls, just like opera boxes."⁠⠀
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📝 wiki

"Tagliamento River Stone Ring was created in 1996

"Tagliamento River Stone Ring was created in 1996 in Verzegnis by the English artist Richard Long, whose work is born from the love for the Earth we inhabit and on whose surface we can leave only a temporary mark of our worldly journey. ⁠For Long, figures such as the line and the circle have a very strong power, the power of the archetype, of the universal."⁠⠀
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"Long himself says: I wanted to make nature the subject of my art but finding a new way. So I started working outdoors using natural materials such as grass and water and this led me to think about making a sculpture while walking. […] My first work done through the practice of walking, in 1967, was a straight line imprinted on a grassy surface. It represented the sign of my walking, of my being here and now. […] My intention was to make a new art that was, at the same time, a new way of walking: walking as an art. (Ben Tufnell, Richard Long: Selected Statements & Interviews, London, 2007, p.39)⁠"⁠⠀
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This piece is located in an art park in Verzegnis Italy, founded by contemporary art collector Egidio Marzona. ⁠⠀
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📝📸 mapfvg.com / @mapfvg

At first glance I thought I was looking at images

At first glance I thought I was looking at images from The Mandalorian, where the main character was visiting yet another planet to make sure baby Yoda is safe. ⁠⠀
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But they turned out to be shots by photographer @marcwilsonphoto of abandoned bunkers, forts and other military structures, right here on planet Earth. The structures are overgrown with mosses, tilted or otherwise slowly being assimilated by their environment.⁠⠀
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Taken from Marc Wilson's book 'The Last Stand” - The Forgotten Wartime Structures of Great Britain⁠'⁠⠀
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📝📸 wherearchitectureisfun.tumblr.com

"New construction of a residential building on the

"New construction of a residential building on the former grounds of the GDR water police. The site in the south of Berlin was found as fallow land with mainly dilapidated buildings. Fascinated by the morbid presence of the abandoned industrial site, it was decided to underline its condition through an architectural and artistic re-appropriation. This lead to the transformation of the main building of the former shipyard into a real ruin." ⁠⠀
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"In addition to the conversion of the auxiliary buildings into studio spaces, a new residential building was built in 2017. In interaction with the mentioned Ruin Garden it was necessary to raise the building and thus provide a generous view on the water. To blend in with the character of the surroundings, the narrow lightweight concrete core, which runs through the centre of the building, was constructed with industrial panel formwork with no exposed concrete requirements, while the columns were constructed with a correspondingly raw wooden formwork." ⁠⠀
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"In contrast to the narrow windowless core, the living level opens outwards all around. The elevated view of the water does not reveal a bank wall, so that the water seems to flow through underneath. Reversible furniture made of zebrano wood veneer zoning and dividing the living area. A long cupboard unit creates two bedrooms, the rear side of which is made of plastered clay panels to regulate the room climate. Opposite the core, a shelf that can be played on two sides proportions the large living space and divides it into two areas that can be used differently. The side of the shelf facing the water resembles an oversized display case cabinet, which is filled with various objects. The shape of the railing of the precast concrete staircase is modelled on the fall protection during the shell construction phase. The saw-rough wood, partly left with tree bark, comes from the trees that had to be felled for the construction of the building."⁠⠀
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📝 📸tanja-lincke-architekten.com⁠

"In 1996 a palm tree appeared almost overnight in

"In 1996 a palm tree appeared almost overnight in a suburb of Cape Town. This was the world’s first ever disguised cell phone tower. Since then these trees have spread across the city, South Africa and the rest of the world.⁠"⁠⠀
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"Invasive Species by Dillon Marsh explores the relationship between the environment and the disguised towers of Cape Town and its surrounds.⁠"⁠⠀
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These artificial trees or naturalised towers make me think of Sylvia Crowe's The Landscape of Power. She talked about the poetics of a powerplant and the totem like qualities of an electricity pole. Technology not as something we have to hide, but as a new spatial quality in the landscape.⁠⠀
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📝📸 wherearchitectureisfun.tumblr.com

The garden of Hufkens Art Gallery in Brussels, Bel

The garden of Hufkens Art Gallery in Brussels, Belgium by @ wirtz_international.⁠⠀
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"Hufkens Art Gallery is one of Europe’s leading galleries for contemporary art located in Brussels, Belgium. The gallery was founded in 1987 by Xavier Hufkens in an un-refurbished warehouse in the neighborhood of South Station (Midi) in Brussels. In 1992, the gallery moved to a 19th-century townhouse in Elsene. The building was renovated by Belgian architects Robbrecht & Daem.⁠"⁠⠀
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"The sculpture garden at the back of the townhouse was redesigned by Wirtz International in 2015. Despite the limited space, the depth of the garden was optimally used in our design proposal. The organic shapes of the hedges, consisting of different varieties of Boxwood, make your forget the rectilinear boundary of the garden.⁠"⁠⠀
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"The four Maidenhair trees (Ginkgo biloba) emphasize the height, add a pleasing sense of tension & perspective and have a beautiful golden fall foliage color.⁠"⁠⠀
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"An extra-tall window enhances the connection between the art gallery and its sculpture garden. The clear link with the garden gives it a broad use and flexibility.⁠"⁠⠀
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📝📸 wirtznv.com

"Nobuo Sekine (1942-2019) was among the key figure

"Nobuo Sekine (1942-2019) was among the key figures of the Mono-ha (The school of things) group. The group was active between 1968 and 1975 in Japan. The members focused on exploring natural and industrial objects such as stone, wood, earth, paper, cotton, glass, sheet steel, oil, wire, and water.⁠"⁠⠀
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"The main objective of the group was to create pieces that shone light on the negative effects of uncontrolled industrial development in Japan. For this reason, it was essential for them to transgress traditional concepts of artistic representation for them to be able to show the world as they intellectualize it, linking materials to their properties as well as reducing objects to their bare forms. Mono-ha also refused the use of Asian motifs like those obtained from Zen or Buddhism, which could be considered plagiaristic.⁠"⁠⠀
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"Phase of Nothingness – Venice Biennale was a contribution to the Phase of Nothingness and consisted of a huge stone positioned on top of a tall square column made of mirrored stainless steel. The square column reflects the scenery in the surrounding and nearly disappears from the view, while the large stone on top appears to levitate in the air.⁠"⁠⠀
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"When speaking about the Phase of Nothingness, Nobuo Sekine said:⁠ I want thinking of these as readymade or found objects. As for the piece at the Venice Biennale – now at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark – it wasn’t my intention to use a mirror. The work was four tons of granite sitting atop stainless steel, which conveys a kind of surrealist effect like a cloud, with the mirror disappearing, but then when you get close, your body reflects in the mirror. That was something that came after, and was the effect of the piece that I was interested in.⁠"⁠⠀
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📝 publicdelivery.org⁠⠀
📸 nobuosekine.com

A garden full of contrast by @hoftuinarchitecten f

A garden full of contrast by @hoftuinarchitecten from Gent, Belgium. Love how the surrounding walls and objects become such a logical part of the garden, enhancing the spatial experience, an urban form of borrowed landscape or shakkei.⁠⠀
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📝📸 hoftuinarchitecten.be

On the site of a former trade market, DnA design a

On the site of a former trade market, DnA design and architecture designed a square referencing to the local tradition of medicinal herbs.⁠⠀
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"Songyang County is rich in Chinese medicinal herbs, which nurture the tradition of Chinese medicine and home-therapy and cultural practices."⁠⠀
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"The original floor of the former market has already been hardened, so our design adapts to the condition by carving out the cement floor and planting medicinal herbs, in a sequence of recording the local herbs in writing along the north-south axis, which are divided into four season chapters by the east-west passages extending from the district fabric. The square is surrounded by the original buildings, while on the new cultural wall on the west side, pictures illustrating the history of Songyang's Chinese medicine culture are painted in traditional way to serve as background information and provide a resting area with seats.⁠"⁠⠀
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"The names of the medicine correspond to the herbs planted and are distinguished between shrubs and herbs, with fonts in 4 square meters and 2.5 square meters, respectively. Trees are planted between characters to provide canopy for those need shading.⁠"⁠⠀
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"According to their different growing seasons, the various medicinal herbs can provide different recognition experiences for people visiting this plaza. This interaction can also become a fun learning process on local Chinese medicine and herbal culture. Looking down from the upper floors of the surrounding residences, this herb garden is seen as calligraphy written with Chinese herbal plants. With the cycles of growth and decay, the plants flourish and wither throughout different seasons of the year, like the ink of calligraphy."⁠⠀
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📝📸 designandarchitecture.net