Garden Folly

Garden Folly
© Kawahara Krause Architects

GARDEN FOLLY

Kawahara Krause Architects

ARCHITECTS
Kawahara Krause Architects

LOCATION
Leonberg, Germany

MANUFACTURERS
Evonik Industries

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Tatsuya Kawahara, Ellen Kristina Krause

OTHER PARTICIPANTS
Lasercut Hamburg

CATEGORY
Installations & Structures, Small Scale

AREA
10.0 m2

PROJECT YEAR
2017

Garden Folly
© Kawahara Krause Architects
Garden Folly
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Text description provided by architect.

The felling of an expansive tree in a private garden in Southern Germany left a huge gap on the site boundary overgrown densely with high bushes and trees. For this gap a structure was designed occupying the space without closing it off.

Garden Folly
© Kawahara Krause Architects
Garden Folly
© Kawahara Krause Architects

In the shape of a classical garden shed the Garden Folly merges well into its dense green surroundings, creating a place to sit outside in the garden but at the same time being inside.

The volume consists of a grid structure of acrylic tubes connected by joints developed especially for the project. Two two-dimensional cross-shaped acrylic parts interlock to create the simple three-dimensional joints.

While the tubes are transparent, the joints are lasered from white acrylic, accentuating the white, star-like joints depending on the lighting. The volume of the Garden Folly then turns into a seemingly hovering cloud of points in space.

Garden Folly
© Kawahara Krause Architects
Garden Folly
© Kawahara Krause Architects

If the sun light is strong, the acrylic tubes gleam in the sun and emphasize the grid's structure. Depending on the view point the impression of this rational geometric complex oscillates between clearly structured or arbitrarily arranged.

Thus the Garden Folly unites contrary characteristics: the contained space of the archetype of a house and the open, flowing space, mass and lightness, outside and inside, structure and arbitrary, clearness and ambiguity, the conventional and the conceptual.


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