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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In Lyon, Fort St Jean surmounts a rocky outcrop, o

In Lyon, Fort St Jean surmounts a rocky outcrop, on the left bank of the Saône gorge. The layout reinforces the very high quality of the site through very simple principles: a large mineral courtyard federates all the spaces; “landscape buildings” slip into the fortifications, using the vocabulary of terraces, glacis and walls; a walkway connects unique gardens, with contrasting plant atmospheres. ⁠⁠
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The lanscape is designed by In Situ, a landscape office based in Lyon. ⁠⁠
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In the center of the fort, the Place d´Armes paved with light limestone affirms its status as an open courtyard.⁠⁠
As a balcony overlooking the city, the Mediterranean Garden opens the courtyard onto the distance, framing the views between a low layer of evergreen shrubs with flowers and fragrant Mediterranean-type perennials.⁠⁠
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📝📸 Divisare

⁠”Located in the Xuhui district of Shanghai, t

⁠”Located in the Xuhui district of Shanghai, the tea house in Li Garden was developed by Chinese architect’s office Atelier Deshaus. The building owns a large courtyard towards the entrance gate and sits in the northwest corner where a paulownia tree grows.⁠⁠”

“Atelier Deshaus used the space around the paulownia by cutting the volume facing the tree into an L-shape, creating a small backyard that functions as an outdoor room complementary to the tea house. The typical perception of a small and light tea house was retained by the 60mm steel tubes that have been incorporated in square cross-sections all over the building. Around the edges of the pavilion, a steel construction forms a bench that crosses the threshold between inside and outside, appearing to hover above the ground. Ribbed glass was used for clerestory windows and incorporated below the bench seating. The roof is made of steel insulation boards fixed by an anti-ribbed steel panel to keep the roof smooth. Black steel permeates through the building which contrasts the warm timber flooring and joinery, as well as the white-painted ceiling.⁠”⁠
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📝📸 Ignant

“This garden by Práctica Arquitectura can be u

“This garden by Práctica Arquitectura can be understood as a house with a central patio, where the central lawn expresses the idea of an open and social space, free of program and accommodating a variety of uses. Niches are placed in each corner and contain this “patio”; each niche has its own character and responds to its context. As naturally defined shelters, these four spaces generate an intimate atmosphere. The landscape is the material that teaches us how to inhabit space.⁠⁠”
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“Gardens offer intimacy, profuse vegetation to create boundaries and provide orientation, semi-labyrinthine paths to lead us to new discoveries and places in which to contemplate the shadows, transitions from large to small spaces revealing surprises along the way, planes of light and shadow. They inspire stories and give us the opportunity to pause and linger in quiet places with so much to say. Its matter is alive; it grows and reacts, changing its scent, colours, and shapes. It becomes a new citizen. This project represents a fresh approach to downtown living. A common meeting space where we can share ideas, get to know each other, express ourselves, and improve as citizens; somewhere to experience a world of silence and mystery. When we reject history, we abandon our search for memory, causing a sense of detachment from human qualities. The Jardín Ciudadano is the reflection of the struggle to promote spaces that people can remember, value, and share with new generations, not only intended for recreation but also for contemplation, permanence, and identity.⁠⁠”
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📝📸 @practica_arquitectura

“Italian studio Act_Romegialli was commissioned

“Italian studio Act_Romegialli was commissioned to redesign the garage of a weekend retreat nestled in the Rhaetian Alps into a space for relaxing and entertaining.⁠⁠”

“Enlisting the assistance of landscape architect Gheo Clavarino, the architects retained the stone wall and original columns of the garage, adding a metal frame to support glazed glass panels and a pitched roof. Deciduous vegetation climbs over the top of the shelter – aptly named ‘Green Box’ – covering it in a layer of plants. The interior comprises two rooms, characterised by rough surfaces such as the exposed concrete ceilings and a minimal look that allows nature to take centre stage.⁠⁠”
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📝📸 Ignant

"The first residential project completed by Mexica

"The first residential project completed by Mexican firm Esrawe Studio is ‘Casa Sierra Fría’, a rectilinear structure in Mexico City with a brick facade that defines the home’s concealed exterior, encasing a verdant courtyard at its center."⁠⁠
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"Narrow red bricks cover the outer walls and floors of the house, forming a cohesive and durable exterior. The complete lack of windows adds to the private nature of the home’s facade—instead, floor-to-ceiling glass walls wrap around the internal courtyard, providing views from the living spaces to the lush greenery. “The series of volumes are designed in a horseshoe shape, revealing themselves and unwinding throughout the home,” explains the firm. Inside, a light material palette contrasts with the reddish exterior—pale stone and wood flooring complements walls rendered in light shades. The design encompasses the garden, four bedrooms, a studio, living room, dining room, kitchen, outdoor patio, wine cellar, and rooftop terrace. Images were provided by architectural photographer César Béjar.⁠"⁠⁠
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📝📸 Ignant / @esrawestudio @tallerdepaisajentorno @cesarbejarstudio

I think when you look up 'queer garden' in the dic

I think when you look up 'queer garden' in the dictionary, there's a picture of Las Pozas there. ⁠⁠
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"Edward James was an eccentric british poet, sculptor and millionaire patron linked to the surrealist movement. He spent most of his time building “Las Pozas” in a remote estate in the subtropical rainforest in the mountains of Mexico. More than a sculptural ensemble, Las Pozas reflects James’ personal surrealist imaginary throughout his life. No great pretensions, just a sequence of concrete volumes and shapes floating over the irrational exuberance of the rainforest."⁠⁠
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📝📸 wherearchitectureisfun.tumblr.com

"The regal beauty of Körnerpark is an unexpected

"The regal beauty of Körnerpark is an unexpected addition to the landscape of suburban Neukölln.⁠ Donated to the town of Rixdorf in the early 1900s, the site was quickly transformed from a graveled area into a sunken garden of neo-baroque beauty. Today, an opulent water feature cascades down into a large grassed area that is edged by hedges, colorful flower beds, and stone balustrades. The 2.4-hectare park is a hidden spot favored by Berliners, who while away their weekends here picnicking on the lawn, perusing the vine-covered gallery, and lounging at the park’s cafe.⁠"⁠⁠
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📝📸 Ignant

"Cloisters, as spaces, are semi-enclosed walkways

"Cloisters, as spaces, are semi-enclosed walkways found in places of worship. The cloister, as an ideology, is a term associated with monastic life. Perth-based studio MORQ has enacted a little of both in the creation of a thoughtfully designed concrete building that looks inwards instead of out, in Floreat, Western Australia."⁠⁠
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“Our clients came to us in search of a house in which they could feel a sense of refuge: somewhere to peacefully dwell for the coming chapters of their life”, the architects from Morq explain. This idealized tranquil space was sadly at odds to the subdivided plot, fronting onto a busy road, where the home was to be built. “Surrounded by an unremarkable built environment and no vegetation”, the architects explain, “[it was] not exactly a place of respite.”⁠⁠
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"To achieve a space where the desired peace and privacy were possible, Morq designed a monolithic home structured around a paved interior garden: “By turning our back[s] on the suburban context, we shield the occupants from the noisy street, and create an inner sanctuary within.” The courtyard, a verdant jungle-like space protected from the wind, is both the literal and emotional heart of the home: “It simultaneously orders program, frames the rituals of its inhabitants, distributes light, and facilitates ventilation, all the while denying any reminder of the suburban context beyond its massive walls”, Morq explains.⁠"⁠⁠
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📝📸 Ignant

“Born Hanna Puacz in 1887, in Brest-Litovsk, Pol

“Born Hanna Puacz in 1887, in Brest-Litovsk, Poland, Puacz took the stage name of Madame Ganna Walska. Madame was the customary title for well-known actresses and operatic singers in Europe, Ganna is a Russian form of Hanna, and Walska nods to her favourite music, the waltz. Over the next decades, after studying, she sang opera in New York and Paris and toured America and Europe, attracting the attention of audiences, critics, and suitors on both sides of the Atlantic. She married six times, wrote her autobiography, and continued to study both vocal music and spiritual teachings in search of creative fulfilment and personal enlightenment.⁠”
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“After residing in Paris and New York, Madame Walska turned her sights toward California’s sunny climate and free-thinking residents. Following the encouragement of Theos Bernard, her sixth and last husband, she purchased the 37-acre Cuesta Linda estate in Santa Barbara in 1941, intending to use it as a retreat for Tibetan monks, and renamed it Tibetland. The Tibetan monks never appeared, and sometime later, after divorcing Bernard, Madame Walska changed the name of her estate to Lotusland in honour of the sacred Indian lotus growing in one of the ponds on the property.⁠”
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“She then began what would be a gradual transformation from well-known socialite to garden designer. Most of her energy and resources were poured into creating a botanical garden of rare plants using her natural artistic talents to create a fantasy world of exquisite beauty. To accomplish this she worked with a number of landscape architects and designers. Madame Walska herself was a designer and loved to amass eclectic and rare species of plants.⁠”
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“She wanted the best, the biggest, and the most unusual plants available and was often willing to pay any price to get them. So determined was she to finish the work she had begun, in the 1970s she auctioned off some of her jewellery in order to finance her final creation – the cycad garden. Up until the last few years of her life, she was the spirited, intractable “head gardener” of Lotusland.” ⁠
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📝📸 somethingcurated.com