"Figurehead" of the Kirchberg Plateau, the European Court of Justice brings together a very large number of users in imposing buildings. The architect Dominique Perrault has been designing its successive extensions since 1996. For the fifth extension, MDP was entrusted with the implementation of a temporary garden as an extension of the forecourt of the new tower houses the offices of jurists and linguists. It offers an extensive view of the wooded hillsides and agricultural fields of the Luxembourg landscape. On the ground, the “garden of multilingualism” will offer a miniaturization of it, both familiar and different.

This garden composition considers from two points of view: the plunging view from the towers, and the dynamic, kinetic perception of the visitors who cross it. Two points of view, two types of experience.

The garden refers to the typology of agricultural landscapes by playing with its characteristic components that are the plantation lines. Its concept is simple: on a vast continuous lawn are installed different wefts of shrubs, interspersed with plots of orchards and some clearings.

Seen from the tower, the lawn with its precise boundaries offers a strong legibility. It creates a continuous and controlled ground where graphic elements are installed, composing a sort of patchwork of different kinds of shrubs. Its patterns are comparable to the agricultural furrows that domesticate the landscape and give it shape. The transposition of this elementary writing is precisely established. Its dimensions are adapted to the uses and maintenance of the garden, and to its perception from an overhanging view.