How do you make economic botany interesting to teenagers? Who gives a damn where coffee comes from?
The Eden Project has reinvented how a botanic garden works, what it is for and who it needs to talk to.
Eden engages our attention with a light touch, and raises awareness of issues and initiatives that could lead to a more sustainable way of living.
LUC's landscape design is 'of the site' — the quarried out pit was spiralled with mining tracks and a mass of incoherent shapes. We used the memory of these tracks to transform a big ugly hole into a legible place. The landform is sculptural to accommodate the scale of the architecture and was designed to minimise man-made slope stabilisation.
This was a dream project for a landscape designer. Our team led the master planning because it was what we trained for - like a group of astronauts that ‘knows’ they are destined to go to the moon.
The project involved collaboration with horticulturalists, engineers, architects and sculptors, and has resulted in the one of the most exciting projects of this, or the last, century.
