Urban Garden
Encourage and facilitate reconnection of people with nature in an urban environment
This project brief was given by the London Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), with the aim to create an exhibition, promoting the flaura within London city. With this project, I look into some of the fundamental issues, associated with the loss of this interaction between man and nature, by organising an Urban Garden exhibition.
This is a space where people would be immersed in and surrounded by vegetation creating an intimate space. These isolated green spaces aim to bring contrast between the timber boards surface and the urban garden itself in order to emphasise its importance. Inside the urban gardens (confined spaces), the visitor(s) would have to go bare feet in order to fully have a sensory experience. This exposure would hopefully motivate visitors to make the effort of seeking further contact with nature in the future. Those floating green spaces, inspired by the shape of a sphere aiming to confine and embrace the visitor by this (small or big piece of) ’wild nature’. The original floor of Lindley Hall is covered by a new uneven elevated floor, covered by timber boards. This new floor would guide the positioning of the timber boards to emphasise the irregularity in height. The entire space made of timber, including the structures that envelop the precious green gardens.
April 2015
