Topoi Engelsbrand - Philosophical Landscape Garden
”You seek life, and a godly fire
Gushes and gleams for you out of the earth,
As, with shuddering long, you
Hurl yourself down to the flames of the Etna.
…”
Empedokles by Friedrich Hölderlin
2 Houses with landscape gardens in the Black Forest.
On a 92 are big estate on the northern rim of the Black Forest two residential houses and a pool came into being within a landscape garden. On the exposed topography located on a slight slope, different topologies are explored. The inhabited and uninhabited buildings, gardens of different sizes provide the ground for the quest of classical and unknown geometric topologies. The calm search for the „quinta essentia“ of an elegant classical form leads from the tetrahedron to the artificial landscape. A classical form which does not deny its revolutionary roots and formulates a poetic science.
Phase Three >>> Philosophical Landscape Gardem
The protected local flora develops from the wild habitat (bosco) to an artificial landscape (bosco). Water runs through the topography and maintains ponds and basins. The rising sun shines along the 250 m axis through the whole estate on the date of summer solstice. A variety of follies define places in the philosophical landscape:
A falsification swing, a romantic relict as a goose shed, a Tetrahedron fireplace, the Octrahedron, a teahouse made from Corten Steel, which defines a numerical microcosm in the wilderness.
Architect: Office for Architecture Stocker, Germany
Location: Engelsbrand, Black Forest Germany
Client: N.N.
Contractor: Karl Köhler GmbH
Project Area: 9800 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Brigida Gonzalez, Germany
