Graduate shows 2016: the town of Vejle in Denmark is transformed into a pleasure garden in the spirit of Peter Pan's Neverland in this design by Aarhus School of Architecture graduate Marco Maycotte (+ slideshow).
According to Maycotte, the escape mentality that features in JM Barrie's popular novel could be applied to real life. His proposal is to create a garden where people can escape their everyday stresses.
Maycotte has designed a garden where people can escape their everyday stresses, in the spirit of Peter Pan's Neverland
He chose the fjord-side town of Vejle as the location because, he claimed, it is a place of "ever-present beauty" that many people drive through but never stop off at. He calls his design The Pleasure Garden.
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"Much like the overlooked beauty and inspiration around us in our everyday lives, Vejle has the potential to reimagine and enlighten those of us who can no longer see the glitter through the fog of pressures we live amongst," said Maycotte.
The Danish town of Vejle would, in essence, become "the Las Vegas of Scandinavia and Europe"
"Through the experience of The Pleasure Garden, we can relearn how to stop and smell the daffodils ? a much-needed awakening amongst a disillusioned people."
The town would, in essence, become "the Las Vegas of Scandinavia and Europe", he adde...