Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden_Interview with Joe.Y Wai [Part 2]
| August 18th, 2008
Continued from Part 1…
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Y:What is the design inspiration?
J:There are so many pavilions involved and they were all suggested by Suzhou Artisans and like all Classical garden design, it not a matter of inventing something new. The creative part of it is to understand your purpose of having the garden and to select the right kind of components, such as the water pavilion, any kind of zigzag bridge, any kind of walls and leak windows and ponds. It is just the decision on these things and how to connect them that really is the main key to a garden design. Because of the size of the project, which is not big, and also the idea of wanting to put it on its appropriate section of the block, the Suzhou artisans looked at the Wangshiyuan as a main inspiration, it seemed to have a main central pond and a Water Pavilion and a Scholar’s Study, combining with a small rock mountain and a main pavilion which leaves as a reception hall. It is separated from the large part of the garden by a double sided corridor, which is also from one garden in Suzhou. In choosing the Water Pavilion they thought they would have exactly the same one as in Zhuozhengyuan. So you have three very famous Suzhou garden playing as the inspiration the basis of Dr Sun Yat-Sen classical garden. So what we have initially was a real piece of Classical Chinese garden in what is amount to be a pioneer Chinatown which is part of the North American city as supposed to be part of a Chinese city. So that would be the unique context that is. more »
