Il parco sembra una scultura / Is it a park or a sculpture?

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LANDSCAPE DESIGN 31 March 2018

Abitare Habitat Landscape design Is it a park or a sculpture?

Is it a park or a sculpture?

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The night that never stops Italy on the road

8 – 18 March 2018

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2 December 2017 – 4 August 2018

Achille Castiglioni’s Century

Art residency in the landscape 28 January – 17 March 2018 Matteo Zambelli

Folds, wrinkles and undula ons give form to the landscape‐

sculpture designed by Gilles Brusset in Meyrin, Switzerland.

Hollows, ridges and gullies inspire inven ve games

La Porta: 11 rue Larrey (1926-64) by Marcel Duchamp may provide a

conceptual explanation of the park created by Gilles Brusset in 2017 in Meyrin, Switzerland. The work by the Dadaist master incarnates the idea of interstitiality because it achieves the paradox of being simultaneously a door and not a door: it is a door because it closes a passage; it is not a door

because it always opens another. It is the condition of “in-between-ness”, as Peter Eisenman calls it. During the years of the digital revolution, the

American architect explored the theme of the interstice in essays and projects involving folds, which is the formal motif of this park and the origin of its name, L’enfance du pli [literally: the fold’s childhood].

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Landscape design and sculpture, the park is a response to the modernist development principle whereby the ground is a neutral platform upon which primary volumes are placed. And it is no coincidence that this area in Meyrin has taken the place of a previously attened hill. Brusset envisioned

undulating terrain for the park, with a vertically varied topography, both as an homage to the original contours and as an evocation of the generative forces behind the nearby Jura Mountains.

Sketch of the project. (Courtesy Paysarchitectures – Gilles Brusset)

The project falls into the category of the “operational topographies” de ned by Manuel Gausa (in The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture) as “those devices conceived of as and through strategic movements of folding in the territory. Such movements de ne platforms and (or) enclaves of a quasi geographical nature”. The hybrid nature of the park, lacking any of the

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traditional playground equipment, becomes an incentive for children to discover, through physical exploration, all the possibilities for play offered by the wrinkled terrain.

“L’enfance du pli” is not out tted with traditional playground equipment. Here the children have to exercise their imaginations to discover how to play amidst the folds. (Photo Pierre-Yves Brunaud / Picturetank)

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