Architectural Renderings House-Fantastic Garden of Knowledge Made From 40,000 Books

It’s designed by Thilo Folkerts and Rodney Latourelle, Jardin de la Connaisance, or the Garden of Knowledge, is a unique outdoor library that features living books sown with several varieties of mushrooms.

This Amazing living library built from 40,000 second hand books has appear in the middle of the forest as part of the 11th International Garden Festival in Métis, Quebec. With the theme of paradise and the Tree of Knowledge, the temporary garden brings the books back to their roots in a natural setting.


Latourelle worked in collaboration with Folkerts of 100Landschaftarchitecktur  to design the ‘utopian’ garden as a compelling new way to experience the forest, as an information platform as well as a return to nature.


The books are using to create garden walls, benches and carpets that are integrated within the site and structure of the forest. The books are patched like bricks, while open volumes form cushioned carpets on the forest floor.

The designer said that, by using books as material in the construction of the garden, we confront these instruments of knowledge with the temporality of nature. And by exposing these fragile and supposedly timeless materials to transformation and disintegration, we invite an emotional involvement of the visitor.

The books also serve to nourish and support new life. There are eight different edible fungi varieties such as Winecap and Oyster mushrooms are sprout up within the pages of the books, where they will grow and root over time. The mushrooms support the idea of temporary space, which changes over time. After the festival the temporary garden will be deconstructed and the books will be composted or recycled.

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