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THE GARDEN THAT CLIMBS THE STAIRS / BILBAO JARDIN 2009

Billao, Spain
 
A project by: Balmori Associates
 
Landscape, Installation, Exhibition
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The garden climbs the stairs, running in undulating lines of different textures and colors. Envisioned as a dynamic urban space; it moves in time and with the seasons. Its lush planting cascades down as though the garden was flowing or melting, bleeding the colors into each other. In one gesture, it narrates a story of landscape taking over and exp... read more
The garden climbs the stairs, running in undulating lines of different textures and colors. Envisioned as a dynamic urban space; it moves in time and with the seasons. Its lush planting cascades down as though the garden was flowing or melting, bleeding the colors into each other. In one gesture, it narrates a story of landscape taking over and expanding over the Public Space and Architecture, therefore transforming the way that the stairs and the space is perceived and read by the user. It is a garden of contrasts: the contrast between native and exotic plants, between the red flowers and the green grass, between the green grass and the grey paving. In form, the garden engages the horizontal plaza with the rising vertical plane of the steps and the upright gesture of Eduardo Chillida’s sculpture. Like the famous Spanish Steps in Rome, the garden is not only designed for visitors to ascend and descend, but for them to linger, and just be. As a member of the jury for the second edition of Bilbao Jardín 2009, Diana Balmori was invited to create a garden. Dr. Balmori chose to sit the garden on the steps between two Arata Isozaki towers leading to San­tiago Calatrava’s footbridge over the Nervión River. The garden compliments the list of numerous projects of Balmori Associates in Bilbao that includes Abandoibarra Master Plan (competition winner, 1997), Plaza Euskadi (under construction), Campa de los Ingleses (competition winner, 2007.) collapse
 

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The garden climbs the stairs, running in undulating lines of different textures and colors. Envisioned as a dynamic urban space; it moves in time and with the seasons.
 
Type Cultural
 
Public - Park
 
 
Location Billao
Spain
 
Client II International Competition: Bilbao Jardin 2009 And Fundación Bilbao 700
 
Building status built in 2009
 
Site size 80 m2
 
Site type urban
 
 

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Balmori Associates
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As: Landscape Design
 

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