Stone Plant Sculpture ガーデン彫刻 by Udo Hubert Dagenbach is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 A' Design Award 銀賞 in ストリートファニチャーデザイン Competition Category.
銀ストリートファニチャー· 2017
Stone Plant Sculpture ガーデン彫刻
Client: Glasser and Dagenbach
A' Design Award 銀賞 Winner in ストリートファニチャー Category
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About Stone Plant Sculpture ガーデン彫刻
ストーン・プラント・スカルプチャーは、縦横高さ130センチの立方体として構成されたミニマルな庭園である。その半分は、南ドイツの採石場で切り出されたジュラ紀石灰岩のブロックからなる。露出した石の表面は、経年を感じさせる風合いを出すために、はつり加工とブラッシング仕上げが施されている。もう半分は4株のイチイで構成され、植栽後に最終的な寸法へと刈り込まれている。石と植物の境界は、ほぼ対角線状のラインとして表れる。このデザインは、日本の禅庭をヨーロッパ的に解釈したものである。立方体は平坦な芝生の上に据えられ、維持管理の手間はほとんどかからない。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銀賞
Stone Plant Sculpture ガーデン彫刻は、見事で印象的なハイエンドのデザインに授与される、非常に権威ある評価である A' Design Award 銀賞の受賞作品です。銀賞の受賞作品は、きわめて輝かしく創造性に富んだ作品であり、デザイナーの傑出した専門知識、才能、洞察力を示しています。Stone Plant Sculpture ガーデン彫刻は、素晴らしい代表作であり、驚くほどプロフェッショナルで、深く革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銀賞を受賞したデザインは、非常に注目すべき称賛される発明であり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に寄与し、それを前進させます。Stone Plant Sculpture ガーデン彫刻は、多くの人に羨まれる創造物であり、欲求を呼び覚まし、前向きな感情をもたらし、驚きと感嘆を灯します。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Two companies asked for a series of gardens, objects which show the possibilties combining their products. Jurrasic limestones and plants. So we created the idea for the most minimalistic garden, a european interpretation of Japanese Zen Gardens. Forming a cube with a pruned yew and a limestone. The joint between both is defined by an almost diagonal line through the cube.
Two materials - plant and stone - a simple shape. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The stone plant sculpture forms a cube of 130 x130 x 130 cm. It consists of Lime stone and Yew hedge plants which are planted close to the stone to form the intended cube together. The stone is placed on a concrete foundation.
- Tags
- minimal garden, minimalistic garden, garden sculpture, cube garden, plant stone, land art, minimal art, jurrasic marble, limestone, yew
- Production Technology
- One part of the garden cube is produced from a piece of Jurrasic marble, also called limestone. It was produced in a South German Quarry of the Franken Schotter Company. It was cut out of a raw block. The standing side and the side facing the plants are diamond saw cut. The visible surfaces are chisselled and brushed, what gives it a aged look. The other half is planted from four Taxus baccata, yew, from Bruns Nursery which have been properly pruned to the final size after planting.
- Design Challenge
- It was a challenge not to choose a solution which looked too natural and showed expectable designs. So we have struggled to be maximum minimalistic, showing a clear, simple solution that immediately could be understood by the international guests of the nursery and the United World College. To do less than could be possible is the most challenging step. Our fear that strong frosts could cool down the stone so much that the plants will be harmed and killed by it did not come true even in the high mountains of Armenia
- Research
- The request of two companies to do a work with the products they produce needed a research on similar projects. We found that doing this in a expectable and already common way would not give a good impression. So we found that the solution should be reduced to message they want to tell their clients with this action: "Our products fit together very well". By keeping it simple the impression is stronger.
- Inspiration
- Since long time I searched for a European equivalent of Japanese Garden designs. Finally the minimalistic ideas of the Bauhaus period gave a hint what could be possible. The suggested project is one out of a series of projects which we have done in this way. Whilst Japanese Gardens often use the scale 1:3 to reflect a real landscape in a new and abstract way, this project does not reflect any landscape and does not use any scale. It is the maximum reduction of a garden ending up as a sculpture.
- Project Duration
- The project started in 2002 as a joint venture between the Franken Schotter Quarry and the Bruns nursery. After its realization in 2003 it stood in Bad Zwischenahn, North Germany, in front of the adminitrative office of Bruns Nursery. In 2015 the project was moved to The United World College in Dilijan Armenia, where it is installed now permanently at the Prince of Wales avenue.
- Operation Flow
- The garden cube needs low maintenance. The hedges should be properly pruned 3 times a year to show a perfect impression.
The stone needs a yearly cleaning with simple water by using a high pressure cleaner. The placement on a flat piece of lawn is essential to make it work visualy. - Patents
- all copyrights belong to Udo Dagenbach, glasser and dagenbach, 2006
- Team Members
- Draftswoman: Katrin Weincke
Installation: Bruns Nursery
Stone works: Franken Schotter Quarries - Image Credits
- Image #1 Udo Dagenbach, garden cube, 2007
Image #2 Udo Dagenbach, garden cube, 2007
Image #3 Udo Dagenbach, garden cube, 2007
Image #4 Udo Dagenbach, garden cube, 2007
Image #5 Udo Dagenbach, garden cube, 2007
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