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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Adjoin Garden is located in the heart of Nanshan D

Adjoin Garden is located in the heart of Nanshan District, Shenzhen. Surrounded by modern high-rise buildings, it is situated on a multifunctional plaza integrating office, commerce, and leisure functions. ⁠⁠
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“Daifudi”was the residence of civil officials in ancient times. It features the Huizhou Architecture style which was prevalent during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty dating back more than 300 years.⁠⁠
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The designer July Cooperative Company carefully studied the form of ripples and displayed the curvature in the courtyard by utilizing different landscape materials. At the same time the design embodies the divergence of culture, forming a layered, spreading, and transitional landscape effect, balancing the atmospheric difference between ancient buildings and modern commercial environments.⁠⁠
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In combination with the concept of a display platform, the landscape design with corresponding platform areas will accentuate the sense of ritual in the courtyard space. Due to the lack of windows around the ancient buildings for direct viewing from the interior, the setting of the platform provides an activity area for the outside landscape, allowing users to enjoy the courtyard space.⁠⁠
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⁠⁠The designer treats the ancient buildings as cultural exhibits in the modern city, with the landscape providing a display platform. A variety of elements are used to set off and echo them, weakening the disconnection between the ancient buildings and the commercial environment. The natural elements in the landscape are used to reconcile the atmosphere difference between the ancient buildings and the commercial environment. The landscape and the architecture echo and merge, creating a spiritual oasis of nature and culture for people in the modern city.⁠⁠
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📝📸 Archdaily / july-co.com

Besides being a really great guy, @danyoungla is a

Besides being a really great guy, @danyoungla is a fantastic designer. This garden he made in Brisbane, Queensland is proof of that. So loose, free, rich, full of potential to grow wild. Love it.⁠⁠
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📸 @ andymacpherson.studio

A house somewhere between spaceship and ancient te

A house somewhere between spaceship and ancient temple. ⁠⁠
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"In Portugal, ten kilometers from where the Atlantic Ocean breaks on the shores of Alentejo, Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati has grounded his own monumental concrete ark, ‘Villa Além’.⁠"⁠⁠
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"Atop a hill of red earth, amongst a forest of cork trees that the region is famed for, the five-meter-high walls of Olgiati’s second home fold outwards; as-if the petals of a flower opening to the sky. The home lies hidden within them; it is an introverted space, focused around a central pool and desert-style garden. It does not fit to the typology of urban, suburban, or country living; situating itself somewhere in between or beyond these categories."⁠⁠
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“It is a real retreat”, Olgiati explains. “I was looking for a term for this type of housing and have arrived at ‘landscape living’.” Simultaneously closed and open, the property is unique in its interaction with the surrounding landscape. In Portuguese, além means ‘beyond’, making ‘Villa Além’ a fitting name for a structure that attempts to transcend traditional concepts of housing. “Our home is far away from the next town”, Olgiati says. “It is disconnected in every respect. There is only the vast empty landscape around us. In ‘Villa Além’, a sense of both loneliness and independence arises.”⁠⁠
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📝 📸 Ignant

Dania Karavan's memorial to commemorate the Sinti

Dania Karavan's memorial to commemorate the Sinti and Roma murdered under National Socialist rule during the Genocide, or Porajmos."⁠⁠
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"Around 500,000 Sinti and Roma were persecuted and murdered under Nazi rule.The memorial by artist Dani Karavan consists of a round water basin with a triangular stone stele at its centre, the shape of which refers to the fact that all those imprisoned by the Nazis were identified with differently coloured triangles on their prisoner clothing. A flower is placed on the stele as a symbol of life and to remember the murdered Sinti and Roma. As soon as it withers, it falls down into the depths of the well. A new, fresh flower then rises from the water. The words of the poem "Auschwitz" by Italian Roma Santino Spinello are written around the edge of the water basin, in English, German and Romany: "Sunken in face / extinguished eyes / cold lips / silence / a torn heart / without breath / without words / no tears".⁠"⁠⁠
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📝📸 visitberlin.de

Installation by TAOA for a public art exhibition i

Installation by TAOA for a public art exhibition in Nanhai, reminding me of Alvar Aalto vases and Fort Vechten by Anne Holtrop.⁠⁠
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"Qiandeng Lake Park is located in the center of the city. As the largest city park in Foshan, it is an important leisure place for Foshan citizens. The project location is designated at the edge of a dense forest in the park. The first thing we need to think about is what kind of space installation we can make to talk with this forest, this large city park and this modern city. By building a space without secular function, we think it should bring people a different experience, an instant experience that can care for the spirits.⁠"⁠⁠
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"In one garden, we built another one and hope that it is a simple space, a void place without any actual content, which makes the whole park or even a city full of complex content empty a unique void. Except for water and air, this empty place only leaves people who enter a pure world for themselves. We hope that every viewer will be in the most relaxed state, and see a different world than usual. Here, the world has a special rhythm, and is being decomposed into the most basic elements, showing a basic state behind the complicated world. We chose fair-faced concrete to define the indestructible boundary, and the air inside seems to solidify, making it a perceptible “isolated” world. The free form extends into the bush around the trees, making the concrete look softer, and the inner space is transformed and hidden, forming an abstract landscape."⁠⁠
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"In the site, we map the specific location of the trees. As references, we hope that the structure can complement these trees in a humble manner. So we put it in the crevices of the trees, making it grow freely like running water. Near one side of the park path, a square entrance with a size of 1 square meter is hung on the wall, opening with a width of 60cm to connect the two worlds inside and outside, which can only be passed by one person at a time. The bottom of the space is filled with clear water, and the hollow stainless steel plate keeps the same elevation as the water surface. Walking on it is just like floating on the water."⁠⁠
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📝📸 gooood

For the Exhibition ‘Lustwarande, Pleasure Garden

For the Exhibition ‘Lustwarande, Pleasure Garden’ in Tillburg, The Netherlands. Curated by Chris Driessen and Marianne Brouwer. ⁠⁠
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This work is an extension of the work ‘Pa se Tent‘ (My Father’s Tent), 1997: an inflatable house, simulating the home where I lived with my father at thirteen, this work attempted to deal with memory, the relationship between father and son, and growing up to be an Afrikaner man. With this work I initially wanted to dig the foundations of this house into the landscape, in order to map my history in a certain way. This developed into the work I have now: filling these foundations with water, shaping canals as letters which reflect the environment. ⁠⁠
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The words “ONTHOU” and “VERGEET” (Remember and Forget) also reflect, and deflect each other. I wished to use this work not just as a mimic of the house’s foundations but to write about memory.⁠⁠

Thanks to @marijn_huigen for telling me about this work. And for helping to construct it.
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📝📸 luannel.com

Didn't you post this one before? Yes I did. And I

Didn't you post this one before? Yes I did. And I will probably post it a few more times cause I think it's such a great project: the Green Cathedrale by Marinus Boezem. ⁠⁠
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"Squarely set within Flevoland’s geometric polder is a ‘Gothic’ cathedral. No sky-high stone vaults, stained glass windows or echoing corridors, but a cathedral made of trees. Marinus Boezem developed his Gothic Growing Project in 1978. In 1987, by invitation of the Rijksdienst IJsselmeerpolders, he planted 178 Italian poplars according to the ground plan of the Notre-Dame of Reims. Between the trees, concrete paths have been laid out, reminiscent of the ribs of the cross vaults.⁠"⁠⁠
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"Much like the Gothic cathedral, Boezem sees the creation of Flevoland as the pinnacle of human achievement. On the parallel plot, he left open the outline of the cathedral in a forest of oak and hornbeam hedges. In this ‘contra-cathedral’, the floor plan is marked with concrete tiles instead of poplars.⁠"⁠⁠
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📝 landartflevoland.nl

"When her mother died, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel

Visitors to Doug Aitken’s The Garden are both a

Visitors to Doug Aitken’s The Garden are both a voyeur and a performer in this living artwork – part of the inaugural ARoS Triennial. As they step into the concrete warehouse, they’ll spot the indoor jungle glowing in the dark. Inside this misty, humid garden they can watch the action in the clinical white domestic chamber enclosed. Then it’s their turn to do what they like to its furniture.⁠⁠
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‘When we think of art, we usually think of the object and the viewer,’ says Aitken. ‘I wanted to create an artwork that’s an activator – a piece with friction and energy.’⁠⁠
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What’s the significance of the gleaming white chamber enclosed in bullet-proof glass?⁠⁠
I’m interested in how we came to a point where our living environments are so incredibly removed from any connection with nature. It’s the frame for the modern condition.⁠⁠
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You’ve created a tropical jungle in urban Denmark. Why this juxtaposition and how is the foliage kept alive inside the warehouse?⁠⁠
A grow light keeps the garden alive, and six or seven times an hour, plumes of mist are sprayed on the leaves from above. This humid garden is a living, breathing artwork that’s deliberately at odds with where we are right now. It’s dislocated from its surroundings yet it’s flourishing. That speaks about the present and the landscape we’ve created for ourselves.⁠⁠
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📝📸 thespaces.com