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Scotland
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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a private garden
built by Charles Jencks and his wife in Portrack
House, Dumfries, Scotland. Its design was
influenced by Chinese garden philosophy. One of
its main features is long snaking curves and
waves that both satisfied the couples love for
Chinese landscape painting and complemented the
Scottish hills around them
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The garden is comprised of 5 major areas, which
are connected by numerous artificial lakes, large
white staircases, bridges, and zigzag terraces.
All of the different incorporated architectural
works are used for representing the universe
creation story Garden of Cosmic Speculation
The Dragon Wall
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The garden, which Jencks and his wife Maggie
began working on in 1988, sprawls over 30 acres,
with sections representing different aspects of
math, science, and the cosmos. Jencks is a
prolific author and postmodern theorist. His
obsession with the natural world and the human
connection to the universe is a fascination he
shared with his wife.
Maggie was as passionate about garden design as
her husband, whom she met while studying at the
Architectural Association in London in the 1970s.
She wrote a book about Chinese gardens and worked
alongside Frank Gehry on his Lewis House in
Cleveland, Ohio, and partnered with Jencks on
projects at their houses, including the garden.
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation The Dragon
Wall Woven throughout the garden are themes from
biology, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy.
But physics provides the underlying metaphor
waves. Soliton waves, which can travel through
each other and still keep their identities,
appear as terraces, fences, and gates designed to
keep out hungry bunnies
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - The Dragon Wall
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - gates representing
soliton waves
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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a landscape
of waves, twists and folds, a landscape pattern
designed to relate us to nature through new
metaphors presented to the senses. Charles
Jencks Garden of Cosmic Speculation -
gates representing soliton waves
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The DNA Garden celebrates the five senses, as
well as the sixth sense of scientific intuition,
called by Einstein fingerspitzengefuhl, that
feeling at the tips of ones fingers
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation The DNA Garden (the
Six Senses Garden) is dominated by the silver
aluminum curves of the double helix, while
embedded in the paths are various codes and
symbols
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation The DNA
Garden There are six cells whose walls are
made up of various plants Each section will
represent one of the 5 senses, as well as the
sixth sense of scientific intuition
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation The DNA
Garden At the center is the nucleus, which
is also known as Eye mound
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - The DNA Garden -
The Eye mound
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - The DNA Garden
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - Garden of senses -
Sense of smell
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - Garden of senses
Sense of Hearing (an ear, representing hearing)
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - Garden of senses -
Sense of Hearing
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - Garden of senses -
Sense of Hearing
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - Garden of senses -
Sense of Hearing
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - Garden of senses -
The Galactic Seat
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DNAs double helix
Garden of Cosmic Speculation - Garden of senses -
the Galactic Seat like a billowing cloud
formation. (The Galactic Seat is constructed out
of similar but not identical shapes) The
Garden of Cosmic Speculation, designed by Charles
Jencks, uses nature to celebrate nature, both
intellectually and through the senses, including
the sense of humour
Symmetry of Ambiguity
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - The DNA Garden A
pair of giant silver lips, representing taste,
under the DNAs double helix Jencks, an
accomplished cultural theorist and landscape
architect, is considered one of the leading
theorists of postmodernism. His fascination with
DNA is apparent throughout his landscape
projects, both at the Garden of Cosmic
Speculation as well as in public work like the
DNA sculptures at Maggies Centres in Glasgow. In
the DNA garden, spirals are used repeatedly to
represent the different senses.
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - Garden of senses
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation The DNA Garden
The sense of taste
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - The DNA Garden A
hand representing touch under the DNAs double
helix
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - The DNA Garden -
Touch
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation The DNA Garden
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - The DNA Garden
The Taste
The DNA Garden The Intuition
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Charles Jencks in his creation, The Garden of
Cosmic Speculation at Portrack House
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - The DNA Garden a
female head and brain set among quivering
fingerlike antennae to represent intuition
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation - The DNA Garden
Intuition Throughout the grounds, the twisted
double helix shape comes up again and again, a
symbol of the origin of life
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