卡塔尔国家图书馆 | 环形花园的简约之美

Qatar National LibraryLocation: Education City, Doha, QatarClient: Qatar FoundationCollaborators: OMA, Sergio Roland, Solid NatureScope of work: Landscape design for the surrounding garden, patios and heritage gardenDate: 2008 – 2017Size: total area, 4.3 ha; gardens, 2.3 haThe library building seems to have landed from elsewhere onto the site, leaving uneven amounts of linear space around its four sides. Looking at the city plan in the vicinity of the Library and recognizing the amount of developments and the diversity of irregular shapes used for buildings and gardens, one tends to feel the need to simplify rather then complicate the design for a new garden. Inside Outside therefore proposes a simple garden recipe: a group of circular imprints into the soil, planted with families of three different types of drought tolerant vegetation: Acacia, Euphorbia and Agave.The effect of the logic we use for the concave, circular imprints – their changing size and depth - will be, that less of the same species will grow on a higher view level in the smaller areas; and more of the same species will grow on a lower level out of the larger circular areas…thus providing surprise and change with a minimum of variation. Our aim is to water the plants, succulents and trees only in the first few years – until they have settled – and to refrain from watering the plantings after this period. Thus the garden will become an educational one, where various species of one family can be studied in the local climate and soil conditions. The main surface of the garden – the area in-between the imprints – is made of local limestone, cut into rough rectangular blocks and embedded in sand. This will create a slightly irregular but walkable plane in the color of sand, in-between round concave planting areas.Team Inside Outside: Petra Blaisse with Jana Crepon, Aura Luz Melis, Ana Beja da Costa, Anat Rachmel, Laura Baird, Carmen Buitenhuis, Eva Radianova and Alessandro SolciImages: ©OMA and ©Inside Outside