有限/无限

有限/无限 花园是BAM和Peter Walker & Partners的合作项目。它由一个装置开始，创造了两个对比空间。一个简单的圆形庭院被一条小路分割开来，小路两边有两面墙，每面墙都有镜子。小路的中心是一排间隔5米的梧桐树。对于两面墙内的游客来说，小路和树木在"理发店"的效果下变成了一个无限的景观。梧桐树的线条变成了一个无限的果园，鹅卵石路成为一个基准点，无限延伸到镜面的深层空间。  

The Finite/Infinite Garden is a collaboration between BAM and Peter Walker & Partners. It is defined by one device that creates two contrasting conditions. A simple circular parterre garden is bisected by a pathway lined with two walls, each covered with mirrors on both sides. Centered in the pathway is a line of Sycamores on a five-meter spacing. For the viewer inside the two walls the pathway and its trees are transformed into an infinite landscape by the ‘barbershop’ effect. The line of Sycamores becomes an orchard that multiplies into infinity. The cobble path becomes a datum that extends endlessly into the deep space of the mirrors.    

镜道的外部与内部的广阔无垠呈现出一种对立的状态，半圆的环形花池在平面上完成了镜面上宁静而不间断的圆圈。绕过护栏的游客会看到花园的全景：两排细长的白杨树创造了一条与梧桐树垂直的次要轴线，在镜面墙壁上，一条小巷形成了横跨圆形花池的圆圈，对面庭院的树梢神秘地完成了镜中树干的形象。

The exterior of the mirror path presents an opposing condition to the expansive infinity of the interior. The parterres, half-circles in plan, are completed as tranquil and uninterrupted circles in the mirror. A viewer rounding the parterres reaches a final gesture: two rows of slender Poplars create a secondary axis perpendicular to the Sycamores. In the mirror walls a puzzling alley forms across the circles of the parterre. The treetops of the opposite parterre mysteriously complete the images of the trunks in the mirror.  

有限/无限花园让人想起Peter Walker早期的景观实验，旨在为景观寻找极简主义的表达方式。有限/无限花园既更宏大、更全球化，又更理智，Walker与BAM在北京的工作室中使用镜子和树木模型勾勒出设计的基本要素，BAM通过进一步的模型研究、细节模拟、施工图和施工来推进设计。

The Finite/Infinite Garden recalls Peter Walker’s early landscape experimentations, aimed at finding minimalist expression for the landscape. Finite/Infinite is at once more grand, more global, and more cerebral. Walker workshopped with BAM in our Beijing studio using mirrors and model trees to outline fundamentals of the design. BAM carried the design forward through further model studies, detail mock-ups, construction drawings, and construction.

▽项目草模 Skech model

▽平面图 Plan

Project name: Finite/Infinite - Beijing Garden Expo

Deisgn firm: BAM + Peter Walker & Partners

Location: Beijing Garden Expo, Beijing, China

Construction: 2013

Site Area: 3500 m2

Client: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development