Barendrecht
Pieter Janszoon Saenredam Project

The city of Barendrecht, near Rotterdam in Holland, commissioned Lucien den Arend to make a landscape design for a new housing project called Molenvliet. Den Arend proposed to make use of a planned water reservoir. He reshaped it into a large rectangle - eighty by fifty meters. On one end he projected a thirty by thirty meter island - ten meters from three adjacent shores. On the island he planted a grid of sixteen by sixteen rows of willow trees in four squares.

Landscape as Project

50X80m reservoir and 30X30m island with osier - 1982|1985/∞

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