This garden is organized within a hollow opening of a closed urban block. The imposing buildings surrounding appeared at first glance to provide a very constraining setting. However, the absence of any opening, the introverted character of the site, gave us the opportunity, free from any contextual relationship, to create a “displaced” garden.

The composition takes as its inspiration the Chinese garden which is based on this tendency of abstraction. The garden should be a mysterious place, a cosmos in miniature where nature in its ideal is attempted to be recreated, balancing the aesthetic with the symbolic. The project is based upon the meticulous, ecological, and aesthetic combinations of plants and extremely varied textures of ground.

This landscape made up of mysterious dimensions is a kind of transposed piece of nature, brought about through explicit artifice. Evoking meadows irrigated by streams, large grass lawns are crossed by a multitude of paths. An abundant layer of ground cover conceals these pathways.

The mineral surfaces spread out largely following a naturalistic design. The modular pattern that underlies the composition of the whole at its various scales, helps determine both the black brick ground layout, the geometric borders, as well as the incorporation of a particular black marble street furniture with an abstract design.