Ten commandments for designing a garden

This 10 videos were created for the interactive installation that launched the Garden’s Interpretative Centre in 2013. It proposes to revisit the design process of the Gulbenkian Garden, here presented through an original text by architect Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles: Ten Commandments for the Construction of a Garden.

Over the 10 commandments one can perceive the different concepts, moments and secrets that, at the moment it was conceived and sill today, determine the spatiality of the happy and pleasant place the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Garden is. A landscape that works with the memory of the place, and, as said by Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles himself, builds “the link between matter and idea.”

The place

 

The presence of water

 

The strength of nature

 

The light’s splendour

 

The depth of perspectives

 

The integration into the landscape 

 

The “natural order”

 

The “cultural order”

 

The simplicity of the design

 

The project

 

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