Landscape Walkway

A contemporary landscape experience built along one continuous route. A shaded walk, a water channel running beside it, and a sculptural marker placed where the walk changes direction and needs a reason to.

One route, and everything hung off it. Seating, planting, lighting and the water channel are all set out from the same centre line, which is what keeps a long walk from becoming a sequence of unrelated episodes.

The channel is shallow and continuous. It cools the air beside the walk, it gives the route a sound, and it stops the paving from reading as an expanse.

The sculpture is placed at the turn rather than at the end. A marker at the end of a walk rewards the people who finish it; a marker at the turn tells everyone else where the walk goes next.