Wandsworth Common
Playground
A proposal for a natural playscape for Wandsworth Council. Lady Allen Adventure Playground sits alongside the site. We wanted to take inspiration form some of her theories in play design - in particular her attitude to risk.
We wanted at the centre of the deign to be the highest possible (4m) free climb without barriers. This could be achieved with a web system of ropes that create a highly challenging risky climb but with an obstructed safe fall.
A live build pavilion project with Chelsea College of Arts Spatial Design students, installed at the Tate Britain.
Rubble Garden
2024
A co-design and programme led while working with architectural educators MATT+FIONA.
The garden was developed in collaboration with Beth Chatto Gardens and transforms an existing brownfield site in the center of Colchester into a wild dry garden. Existing plants and ecological features were retained, while rubble from a nearby building site was curated into mounds planted with new hardy specimens.
A group of 11- to 14-year-olds participated in an intensive summer studio, creating full-scale prototypes of social public realm furniture for a new interim garden. Local maker Tim Germain used locally felled oak to fabricate their designs. The final pieces enable users to get up close to nature.
