garden design competition Transparent edge
Design Concept: layout plan
Eladio Hernando was one of 20 landscape architects whose design concepts were selected for construction at the expo. His proposal titled OUT-INSIDE, is a simple/unpretentious design that updates the Spanish enclosed atrium in to an open cloister connected with its surroundings.
as boundary areas that define a central landscaped courtyard but always closed (e.g. Roman peristylum, Arab courtyard or monastery cloister). In Chinese gardens, however, these corridors escape beyond the enclosures to communicate with other areas such as pavilions or gardens. It is in these cases where some of the sense of
The design of OUT-IN-SIDE is to create a space with different cultural roots to those of the visitors who will engage with it in a variety of ways. The design seeks to incorporate common elements and expressions that have occurred throughout the history of Chinese and Spanish cultures. One of the elements shared by these two cultures has been the continued presence of covered corridors organizing and communicating the various spaces. In Spain these spaces have been traditionally treated
View along edge of walkway enclosure and protection starts to break down and a degree of permeability is introduced. This is a fundamental design feature of the OUT-IN-SIDE concept that reinterprets the traditional atrium. Here, the idea of opening and expanding an enclosed space in the form of a courtyard has been applied not only in the use of the site
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Design Concept: structural components
Internal view
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