"SILENT GARDEN" [I]

Nothing ever got me,
Nothing ever took me,
But the strings of the violin while the worm knitted
its refuge to metamorphose.

The project is based on extracting the essence of poetry kept in nature. nature poems.

The silkworm is an insect capable to create its own space to become a butterfly, Through its own fluids, building a perfect organic refuge to live its metamorphosis.

A white path to get lost stepping on crystalline minerals, hearing its sound, its brilliance to discover an undefined volume behind the mist.

The project consists of the creation of a space that invites it to be penetrated. A silk garden emerges from the earth as a chrysalis, and a white luminous vault creates an inner space surrounded by nature.

A refuge for living creatures, a space of light, nature sounds, and echoes that empty the space, while the individual approaches, finding himself in this inner-inside space. Facing himself with basic elements of nature, water, and minerals, housed by a silk skin, where flying creatures live.

The confrontation of man with nature is too close but too far.

The project reflects on the relations of the individual with his utopian space, his relation with nature, and his natural and built environment.

The historic search of man to find a refuge to exist, multiple layers of silk thread, an epidermis made by an insect, a material with a strong symbolism, a natural source as an important part of eastern culture, its origin, layers that hide, expose and reveal multiple reflections of the human interior.

Macro and Microcosmos, participating in the same poetic, sound, visual, and literary architectures, propose to open new ways to establish a dialogue between humans and nature through space.

As an analogy of life, the chrysalis works as a space to metamorphose.

a project made by Patricia Meneses
developed by studio patricia menses ©

with the collaboration of Francisco Giménez Carbó
Manuel Rocha Iturbide
Jeanne de Bussac
Gosia Kierzerk
Salomé Ayuso

Special thanks to all the people that worked and believed in this project: Jason Kao, Yien Kwan Tzan, Hsin-Hone Pan, Yi-Wei Huang, Grace Tsao, Wan-TingTsai, Sophie Lai, Nina Lu, Tingliang Lo, Marisol Riesco, Phyllis, Lucas Kao, Mr. Wang, Mr. Lee, among all the rest of the persons that worked to build this project.