Where Landscape Architecture...
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| A typical view in the Kubota Garden. Fore more info: kubota.org |
becomes Architecture!
If I ever become homeless I am moving here! This enclosure not only keeps the rain off, it dissolves the distinction between Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the built and the natural, tree and wood, inside and outside, all while bathing you in filtered green light.
I'd say this undefinable space is achieved through the concept of field conditions as Stan Allen describes in Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City. Fugitaro Kubota didn't change anything about the building blocks of the garden to distinguish its spaces, he just "established the conditions within which the material would be deployed and then directed its flows." In this case he created a tightening of the condition of trees, and the natural entanglement of growing branches created a quality of enclosure previously unimaginable.
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