Bringing Design Into Play
At its annual installation site at the Reford Gardens/Jardins de Métis, the International Garden Festival is presenting seven new landscape designs that build upon the concept of play that was established during the Festival last year (see Canadian Architect, August 2017). Chosen from 148 submissions by over 700 architects, landscape architects, artists and designers, these installations highlight the beauty of Elsie Reford?s historic gardens while bringing contemporary forms into focus. Imaginative and interactive, the installations follow a theme that en- courages visitors to ?Go Outside and Play!?
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The ?aMAIZEing? International Garden Festival installation by Marta Milà Pascual and Marc Torrellas Arnedo
This installation, designed by Spanish architects Marta Milà Pascual and Marc Torrellas Arnedo, emphasizes three aspects of play?shapes, movement and change. The installation features a cornfield maze that grows and adapts over time. As visitors interact with circular objects on the plot of land, such as a trampoline, they discover different perspectives of the same elements?an ?amazing? and unique experience for all. Les hélicoptères
Rendering of ?Les hélicoptères? by Carson Isenor and Anna Thomas.
Vancouver-based landscape designer Carson Isenor and landscape architecture graduate student Anna Thomas have created thousands of colourful samara seed replicas frozen in time, evoking nostalgia for visitors who played helicopter with them as children. Calling...
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