Reford Gardens
You enter by walking on
stepping stones that traverse
a ground-cover made of
clay beads. Once inside, you
wander between the rows
of beans of tightly winding
their way up a light wooden
structure. The walls divide the
space into a series of small
hidden gardens, singular
in their proportions. These
cocoons are ideal hiding
places for a game of hideand-seek. One remains a
secret, inaccessible...
bring a taste of goodness to
everyone.
La Maison de Jacques is
magical. It will be built over
several weeks, starting with
the seedlings in May that
will grow to be more than
three metres in height in
a short time. Their clumps
of red flowers will be in
bloom by the end of July and
then the beans will form to
With her various projects,
she tries to remove the
barriers between architecture
and landscape and think
of the limit as a space.
Rosemarie Faille-Faubert
is passionate about the
discovery of landscape. She
explores the different scales,
the tactile, the visual, sounds
Graduates in the master’s
program in architecture
at the Université Laval in
Quebec City, the designers
are working together for the
first time on this project to
bring their personal interests
to life. Romy Brosseau is
interested in the relation
between the natural and the
artificial environment and the
interaction between the two.
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and smells. With her projects
she strives to redefine the
relationship between humans
and their environment
through architecture. Émilie
Gagné-Loranger seeks to
reveal some new poetry
from her research on interior
spaces. Her projects explore
the limits, feelings and
aspects of intimate spaces.
TiiLT by SRCW [Sean
Radford, architect, Chris
Wiebe, designer], Winnipeg
(Manitoba) Canada.
Finding roots in the formal
geometries of the labyrinth
and the many informal
camping traditions in the
Canadian landscape, TiiLT
is a transformable and
inhabitable place for visitors
to act, or to idle, however
they may be inclined.
Each structure may be flipped
between two orientations,
responding to the position of
the sun, offering alternating
views and shifting pathways
through the site. The toggling
movement conjures a school
of fish, or a flock of birds,
flitting in opposite directions
yet connected as a whole.
The straw-like lightness of the
structures and the white skin
recall a field of floral blooms,
contrasting the surrounding
green landscape and blue sky.
TiiLT challenges the notion
of the garden in creating
an interactive environment
that is part sculpture and
part landscape - to evoke a
sense of place and beauty
from modest elements.
TiiLT provides simple,
intimate, shaded spaces
in congregation, retrieving