The parabola wall is a beautiful structure. It is both a clear and geometrical form and yet it is ‘draped’ gently over the slightly irregular hillside. The garden inside will primarily be introvert, so I do not think the need for the FOA scheme to react to any views is very great. The planting scheme can more indirectly react to the views, so that along the pathways unexpectedly views can open up between the plants towards the outside landscape. The FOA scheme is like a net stretched from the parabolic wall, creating with its bifurcating pathways fields for different planting programmes. Currently the garden covers almost completely the wall on the inside. The points of the pathways in the new scheme enable the wall to remain visible, and indeed touchable at various points, so keeping a tangible relationship between the garden and this beautiful object.

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