The park for the new Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi internalizes its surrounding environment, offering a miniature of the landscape it evokes.  As was the case for the English landscape gardens of the 18th century, these gardens re-assemble and stage the greater desert landscape of Abu Dhabi, a landscape of graphic topography, unexpected flora, scarce and precious oases, and convergence with the sea.  Equally as present here is the way man has cultivated, left his mark upon, the desert. 

We were particularly fascinated by the breadth, diversity and richness of contemporary forms of agriculture in Abu Dhabi. These agricultural structures, characterized by an almost abstract geometry, superimposed on the fine textures of the desert, constitute the principle components of the project and reveal the beauty of the natural landscape This transposition at the scale of the museum allow for the organization of a series of gardens connected by a walk, inscribed in a naturalistic landscape of dunes and lagoons - an explicit artifice.