The Wave Landscape Installation
The Wave is a recyclable display garden designed by Atelier Scale. It locates at the 2020 Shenzhen Flower Show Bao’an Garden, with a size of 360 m2.
Photography by © Nancy Studio
Within a visual-dominant flower show context, we realize there is a huge waste for every garden/flower show where most of the materials are turned into trash after the show is finished. Therefore, we think reflectively: using design to reconsider the life cycle of a temporary garden and promote sense of sustainability of a flower show.
Photography by © Nancy Studio
We come up with a prefabricated module system, with which we are able to rebuild the garden in another site with 90% of the material, after the flower show is over. The module is inspired by the texture of ocean, where the city of Shenzhen is located. Through tilting and moving of modules, a field of wave is created to simulate the ocean. Photography by © Nancy Studio
We believe the protagonist of the garden should be the plants, and the goal of design is to create a stage on which the protagonist shines. The “wave” becomes this stage, where plants “surf”. Inside the garden, a gradient selection of flora from white, light blue to dark blue spread with the planters, represent the ocean wave. Colorful succulent plants with various shapes, together with colored herbs, represent the coral reef under the sea.
Photography by © Nancy Studio
Besides the field of wave, the fish n...