The garden room.

Convention tells us that architecture concerns the design of buildings. That interior design is what goes inside architecture and the garden or landscape is what fits around that architecture.

One would say that its about time for some unarchitecture.

Gardens and architecture have little in common if they are just about mere trees and lawn or fences and flowers, walls and rooms or roofs and glass. At the root of things, they are both about sun and sky light. Where the rain comes down and air passes through or about surfaces on which leaves may fall.

The idea of the garden room begins with the substance of context before the design of organizational space and space for the sake of form making, a simple exchange of emphasis which prioritizes the enclosure of context over the design of a mere building. It means that the garden is not something one designs around good architecture. Rather, that good architecture begins with the garden, when distinctions between in and out cease to predominate in the design of space.

Unarchitecture begins when the building is designed as an extension of its garden.

Not because it cares less about the importance of good spatial organization and flow, geometry or design theory in architecture. On the contrary. It merely establishes the garden at the beginning of its spatial theory.

The garden room is about unarchitecture.

home