Maze Garden by Martha Schwartz

Area: 1054 sq meters
Design Theme:  The most primitive and truest behaviors of human in the variable and endless forest
Introduction:  Maze Garden is designed by Martha Schwartz, an internationally renowned master hand and artist of landscape architecture, Lifetime Professor at Harvard University, has honorary fellowship at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and is chief designer at Martha Schwartz Design Firm. This garden is constructed with Xi'an's traditional 3 meter high black brick walls, which looks like a box from the outside. The space in the garden is divided into a series of roofed narrow corridors. Willows are planted in the space between every two walls. Over 100 little brass bells hang in the garden, making beautiful sounds as the breeze blows. When walking inside, visitors can not only experience the change of space, but also see the various behavior of others with the help of the one-way mirros set in the corridors. 

The Almost Infinite Maze Arcade

Another simple idea and just repeated over and over. A simple material palette but did not notice the brass bells that was provided in the description. It has a very voyeuristic quality to it because the one-way mirror was a mirror on one side but a window on the other, so the garden was successful in its portrayal of design theme...

The view from the other side of the mirror..

Ghost Reflections... and the Maze continues...