have to agree on the comment regarding the loose gravel...when looking at the pictures that was the first thing that struck me as odd. it doesn't seem to make sense with all of the other material choices..and maintenance wise seems like a huge headache considering the water and the stone surround.
it'll be interesting to see the trees grow though to see if that helps to bring everything together a bit more....because everything seems fairly dispersed at the moment.
the meaning of it at the base of the benches seems very lost. from the architects' brief, they say that the water makes each marker a "special place", and nothing more. why and how does the water make it special? how does it help to tell the story of the memory of these people?
what role does it play? other than a gravel trap, a light diffuser and as large ice cube trays in the winter.
did no one ever think that putting gravel right on the edge of a small pool would spell disaster?
nihilistic is a bit extreme, maybe its a bit too homogeneous. they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings so they didn't create any feeling of their own. it's a product of fear of the general public's reaction to something too evocative of death or the loss of loved ones.
like Rybcynski said, this is statistics represented in 3 dimensions, its hardly architecture.
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have to agree on the comment regarding the loose gravel...when looking at the pictures that was the first thing that struck me as odd. it doesn't seem to make sense with all of the other material choices..and maintenance wise seems like a huge headache considering the water and the stone surround.
it'll be interesting to see the trees grow though to see if that helps to bring everything together a bit more....because everything seems fairly dispersed at the moment.
agree with the comment about the water also...
the meaning of it at the base of the benches seems very lost. from the architects' brief, they say that the water makes each marker a "special place", and nothing more. why and how does the water make it special? how does it help to tell the story of the memory of these people?
what role does it play? other than a gravel trap, a light diffuser and as large ice cube trays in the winter.
did no one ever think that putting gravel right on the edge of a small pool would spell disaster?
nihilistic is a bit extreme, maybe its a bit too homogeneous. they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings so they didn't create any feeling of their own. it's a product of fear of the general public's reaction to something too evocative of death or the loss of loved ones.
like Rybcynski said, this is statistics represented in 3 dimensions, its hardly architecture.
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