Hedge Maze
迷路園 / 16th century– / Layout / Garden Styles
The garden of play, its paths woven from hedges. Since Hampton Court's trapezoid, the tradition of designing being lost as entertainment — a spatial puzzle.
Hedge-walled paths / A figure revealed from above / Designed dead ends / The goal at the center
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Hampton Court maze / church floor labyrinths / maze-design algorithms