SPACE July 2026 (No. 704)
‘What is that thing?’ This key opening question to the story should remain open. In our view, a literary work can be translated into many languages but it cannot be illustrated out of the domain of words without betraying the countless images it conveys. Thus, our interpretation for Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s famous story (The Little Prince, 1943) avoids literal representation. At the blurred edges between phenomenological and metaphysical experience, dwelling at the very heart of Les Jardins de Médongaule, there is an enigmatic void open to the firmament. Evocative of an idealised desert, this is an empty and dry landscape barely visible from its immediate surroundings. It has the presence of a circular room contained within a thick, solid fence, a low w...
Pezo von Ellrichshausen (Mauricio Pezo, Sofía von Ellrichshausen)
Beatrice Pedrotti, Lennart Lippert, Sophia Chen, Sarah Eusemann
Médongaule Contemporary Gardens, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
pavilion (performance hall)
950m²
317m²
Chang Minwoo Structural Consultants
Mac & MEC, Inkok Enc
Lawoo Construction & Engineering
Les Jardins de Médongaule
Guillaume Gosse de Gorre, Design LHYn
2023 – 2025
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