junya ishigami sculpts poetic landscape 'water garden' at japanese oasis art biotop

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Titled ‘art biotop water garden’, junya ishigami’s earthwork landscape is nestled among the foothills of japan’s nasu mountains. the sprawling environment, which designboom exclusively previewed with ishigami at his studio, is generated with the aim of obscuring the boundary between architecture, landscape architecture, art, and environmentalism. while the garden is carefully modeled and reliant on technological artifacts, the work is both highly artificial and undeniably natural — a living organism that grows and changes by its own inherent dynamics. the temporal characteristics of the landscape are revealed with the existence of former, existing, and future layers.
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