Djao-Rakitine

Selfridges PatioLondon, United KingdomDescription: Garden courtyard for Selfridges Department Store
Location: London, United Kingdom
Area: 205 sq.m.
Stage: Concept design
Status: Completed mission
Period: 2015
Client: Selfridges Retail Ltd
Architect: FDA Architecture, Neri & Hu
Structural engineer: Thomasons
Djao-Rakitine Team: Irene Djao-Rakitine, Mariel Drego, Povilas Marozas, Associated with the newly refurbished 3rd floor of Selfridges Department Store, this hanging garden is a diorama, an idea of a woodland, crystallising the moment when a dry trunk is falling and accompanied by the dappled light of the forest during a warm and sunny evening. The ground flora covering the mound is changing all along the year and provides various colours and textures. The installation is opened to the sky and the scene is to be observed from the new interior spaces.Adapting to the very limited load allowance, we have suggested to create a lightweight mound and to suspend dry trunks to a frame structure attached to the façades of the surrounding buildings. The structure became part of the installation.More projects

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