3 Fence between public and private gardens. 4 Column in the colonade between garden and street. 5 Overall view of the casual nature of this landscape, diur- nally and seasonally changing. 6 A daily engage- ment with natural processes increases the likelihood of achieving a sustain- able future. This as a healing relation- ship, both for the environment and people: landscape is a wonderful me- dium to explore the notion of sustain- ability since the essential materials themselves are liv- ing, growing, dying, and regenerating.
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Projects on this quay must include colonnades at the front of their buildings. Here, each stone column is made of regular blocks, similar to but much bigger than children’s blocks. In different seasons, the col- onnade reveals changing aspects of nature as snow, rain and vines span the space between columns. The transition from street to building is through delicate drifts of ornamental grasses and a rich array of plants that are constantly renewing themselves in ever- changing patterns of light and sound as the sun and wind guide them through their life-cycles. A small commercial building faces the street and backs onto the gardens of the ground floor condo- miniums. The wavy back wall of this pavilion reflects both the landscape and the curvilinear outer edge of the condo balconies. This part of the garden is fenced with pickets that appear erratic, wind-blown, yet fol- low a pattern, a cost-effective construction. The goal for this project was to provide meaningful, real, and abstract experiences of nature on a regular ba- sis within the immediate condominium grounds. This landscape seems complex in its many details, yet collec- tively it makes a simple statement about the nature that is around and within all of us, reminding us that some natural processes are always beyond our control. D Landscape Architect: Eguchi Associates Landscape Architects Project Team: Real Eguchi (Principal-in-Charge), Barbara Flanagan-Eguchi (Design Principal), Juhan Marten, Martin Wade, Eddie Wu, Tad Ukleja, David Ruben Piqtoukun, William Lishman Architects: Page and Steele Architects, Perkins Eastman Black Architects Lighting Consultant: Lightstudio Landscape Contractor: Trinity Contracting and Landscaping Photography: bREAL inc. art + design Completion: 2002 Client: Cenpac Developments
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