Planting: Understanding the haptic experience relation between ease of walking and appreciation of surrounding, the steel grating cliff walk combined with choice of 2m hawthorn hedge direct view and touch to the cliff wall. On large scale: Use of plants that prefers wet condition highlight contrasting wet and dry quarry characteristics Open view of the quarry base is maintained by minimal tree planting. Signature cluster draws attention and focus. Small scale: Tall shrubs work together with meandering pathway to curate public-private boundary. In the linear garden, staggered lines of shrubs of different height hides movement to house, making a short journey longer. Mixture of shrubs species have complementing texture, evoking rocky conditions. Low foliage and high hedge form narrow window strip view of quarry. Height and canopy sizes of tree relate to tall narrow huts. At the tiered garden, ornamental colour trees chosen as solidity trees which guides the view and the weaving movement.
House on stilts to emphasize the verticality of the quarry walls. Continuous timber material of the hall promotes circulation through house. Double volume space serves as transition of enclosed space hierarchy. Level1: Private activity. Level 2: Private activity. 2 huts are angled differently to offer different views.
With time, individual small trees grow and work together to form a line; growing at different rates, trees form a forested cluster with layering. Mowing involves the citizenship participation and the pattern changes with time, reflecting the “active” characteristic of a mining site. With an increase awareness of the quarries in Maastricht, hopefully the other quarries (such as the unknown Wolf Three Quarry for bats) would be activated to bring new experiences and highlight a different processes and characteristics of the unique site.