ENDLESS ORCHARD

A Grand Avenue Proposal
by David Burns, Matias Viegener and AustinYoung


Endless Orchard is an enclosed square within the park that contains a grid of fruit trees around three perfectly mirrored walls, open to the south. The visitor to the orchard will experience the endless vista of fruit trees that once characterized so much of California, whose agrarian bounty was the first engine of the state's rapid growth. The endless geometric grids of agricultural plantings that visitors once associated with California are rapidly disappearing, displaced by unbounded urban sprawl. Endless Orchard attempts to recapture the sensation of these limitless plantings by surrounding a small urban grid of fruit trees with three reflective walls, so the visitor sees nothing but trees in every direction except for the backdrop of city hall to the south.