SITE:
Off a footpath, behind a complex of university buildings, a triangular body of land projects out into a U-shaped water channel. Set into the land is a triangle of trees, evenly spaced and densely packed together, all cut to the same height; here and there, the place of a tree is taken by a lamppost.

PROJECT:
One-quarter of the triangle of land is pivoted out, from its tip, into the water channel; the displaced land rises and falls, like a glacier, in and out of the water, while water seeps into the land, in between trees.

The land is cut through two lines of trees, perpendicular to each other: a tree is left on one side of the cut, in a circle of ground that protrudes over the water, while the negative of the circle is notched into the other side – the notch is terraced down into the water, leaving the inverse of steps under the protruding circle. Here and there the cut results in two negatives, one half-circle cut out of the pivoted triangle and one half-circle cut out of the mainland; a tree is let loose, a lamp-post is let loose, into the water like an island.

The water cuts out a haven in the middle of trees; you can step down into the water, and sit on the terraced benches in the water; you can cross the water, and step out onto an island. In the middle of the public space in front of the university, there are intimate spaces within the trees, and within the water.