#Circle Planter

The site is at the Jiugong metro station, near the Milu deer park in southeast Beijing, Daxing District.  Take a solid block of architecture. Carve out volumes from the block. Insert landscape material into the new spaces. Such is the formula for the interlocking landscape and architecture of Jiugong. In this intimate give and take between architectural mass and landscape, the materials of the landscape are pushed into their most technical realm. Pavers are set onto pedestal structures. Planters are filled with volcanic glass to lighten the soil loads. Plumbing, gas, and electrical lines are carefully wrought to make spaces for root balls. Nathaniel McMahon Nathaniel McMahon Landscape must exert itself as a graphic language... More