• Built in 1989• Designed by Charles Jencks, an architecture

theorist, and his late wife , Maggie Keswick.• Maggie was an expert on Chinese Garden. • Met with horticulturists and scientist in order to

design a landscape that would bridge the words of art, nature and science.

• In 1988, Maggie Keswick, the wife of the architect and designer Charles Jencks, had a swamp dug up on her family’s Scottish estate to create a place for their children to swim.

HISTORY

garden should present a puzzle to be fathomed, some things very clear and others veiled – Charles JencksA

INTRODUCTION

• It is based on mathematics and science mixed with nature.

• Cover an area of about 30 acres• Used the principle of cosmology. • “ a dynamic interaction between the unfolding

universe, an unfolding science and a questioning design”

• A man-made landscape.• It is all started with a swimming hole.• The idea of the garden as a microcosm of the

universe is quite a familiar one.

Site Plan

O F T H E L A N D S C A P E

STRUCTURE & LAYOUT

CONSIST OF :

1. Universe cascade2. The new kitchen garden (The DNA garden)3. Black hole terrace4. Fractal terrace5. The sense of twist 6. Quark Walk7. Brichbone Garden8. Willowtwist9. Bridges 10. Symmetry Break11.Nonsense

UNIVERSE CASCADE

• A concrete that looks like waterfall and represent the universe

• It has 25 landings that mark the important shifts in cosmic history.

• Starting from the top , in the present day , and descending down , visitors are experiencing moving through 13 billion years of cosmic evolution .

• The steps disappear into the dark water below , which represents the mystery of the origin of the universe.

THE NEW KITCHEN GARDEN

• There are six cells whose walls are made up of various plants.

• At the center of each cell is the nucleus, which is also known as Eye mound.

• Each section will represent one of the 5 senses, as well as the sixth sense of instituition.

• They brought the themes together by putting the form of a double helix DNA in each along with a sculpture for the sense of that section.

Sense of Hearing

DNA double helix formSense of Smell

BLACK HOLE TERRACEDefinition : A terrace shows the distortion of space and time caused by black hole

• On the Black Hole Terrace, a 20th century sort of ha-ha has been created.

• incorporating forms that acts as metaphor bending of space and time in the vortex around a black hole.

• Ha-ha is a landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond.

• It shows the space-time warps of super-gravity, the vent horizons and rips in space-time.

• A walk takes the visitors on a journey to the smallest building blocks of matter, and a series of landforms and lakes recall fractal geometry.

• Definition : Non-regular geometric shapes that have the same degree of non-regularity on all scales.

FRACTAL TERRACE

The Sense of Twist

Snail Mound Snake Mound

IT ALLOWS VISITORS TO EXPLORE AND LEARN ABOUT FIBONACCI SEQUENCE.

Snail Mound

• It began to take shape when Jencks dug out a lake for his children to swim in.• Sculptured the resulting mound

of Earth in a double helix DNA form.

• It is strange attractors• It forms the chaotic systems

evolve toward over time • It inspired the twisting wave

structure of the 350-foot-long Snake Mound.

The mounds provide a dramatic and contrasting experience, which is amplified by each one’s proximity to the water features.

Snake Mound

• In the Quark Walk, eight red-painted tree trunks represent the pattern created by the mixing of three types of quark.

• An undulating fence runs through them.

• Its mesh fabric creates interference patterns

QUARK WALK

• At the core of circle of birch trees are two metal spirals.

• One holds the dark coal , the other one is a silver helichrysum, which topples over the edge and grows up the bones.

• The bones at the center, circle up overhead and are graded in color , from silver to white at the top to black.

• The form is a twisted curve, implying the continuous loof of life and death.

Brichbone Garden ( Witch’s Eye)

SKELETON

WILLOWTWIST (STEEL CURVES)• Its design was influenced by

Chinese garden philosophy.

• One of its main features is long snaking curves and waves that both satisfied the couple's love for Chinese landscape painting and complemented the Scottish hills around them .

• Jencks makes use of one of the new scientific theories as well , the theory of complexity , which states that everything is "self-organizing and harmonic".

THE JUMPING BRIDGE

• The area of the garden with red spiral bridge is called HEAVEN-HELL.

• It is meant to show the interrelationship between birth and life , good and evil.

• Some large plants live beside the bridge at the far end , while trees were cut down , they lie where they fell.

THE RED BRIDGE

• Designed by Charles Jencks in conjunction with Scot Wilson and Carillion

• They won the Saltaire Award for Engineering Excellence in 2004

THE SYMMETRY BREAK

LAND DRAGON

NONSENSE• Jencks thinks that sometimes it makes

sense to”stop making sense”.• He randomly built them out and called

them nonsense.• It is not built according to any theory or

concept.

THE STANDARD MODEL • Offers a seat• Theoretical physicist Peter

Higgs

GAIA SCULPTURE• Model of the deuterium atom• held up by the Schrödinger

equation• showing electron orbits as waves

(mesh) and particles (curved metal).

TYPE OF GARDEN

Private Garden • Visitors have to pay for entry • It is only open to public for half day in

a year • There are no pre-sale tickets

available.• It is a pet-friendly garden.

I N G A R D E N C O S M I C O F S P E C U L AT I O N

ACTIVITIES

Since it is a private garden….• Visitors have to pay to visit this garden • There are few activities happen during the open

day

• It is like a theme park , visitors are given a map of the garden when they enter the garden.

• Visitors sitting under the tree , exploring the mysteries of science.

• There will be performance in the garden during open day.

U S E D T O B U L D T H E G A R D E N

TYPE OF MATERIALS

1. Steel -for the Black Hole

Terracee

2. Long sheet of aluminium - for the Willowtwist.

3.Concretes -Charles Jencks used concrete to build the Universe Cascade.

4. Silver aluminium Curves - It is used to build the DNA double helix form in The New Kitchen garden.

5. They also used lovely old-fashioned elements such as rocks , various types of plants. - For the DNA garden , it is mostly designed with various types of plants. - They believes that plants can bring the meaning of eco.- It also brings a sense of harmony.

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