JARDIN CLAIR-OBSCUR

Wagon-landscaping: The CRDP (Centre Régional de Documentation Pédagogique) is located in the former abbey of St. Hilaire of Celle, in Poitiers. Its gardens are both free cloister reinterpretations, resuming their major principles: an enclosed garden, regular central space underlined by circulation galleries around. These two gardens play with their own opposite : shade/light, dryness/moisture, tallness/smallness. The contemporary abbey function is a pedagogical information centre where child and student come to develop their knowledge with schools or by their own. The garden emphasize as well this pedagogical function showing traditional plants from the cloister time and from abroad, as a botanical garden.