I wanted to create a shelter that was incidental to your route. I didn't want to design something that would be passed by, unnoticed and unused. I chose a site just off the main path which lay on a pathway that stretched ten meters between two mounds moving up the garden. Trees surrounding the site reach between four and sixteen meters. I felt that the site was calling for a tunnel, already enclosed by the trees; to a certain extent I chose to use what was already there and play on it. I let the dimensions of the path determine the dimensions of the shelter. It became part of the route through the garden.
I didn't want to create something which visitors would sit on for just a moment or two; I envisaged a social center for visitors to the botanics, particularly with younger primary school children in mind. These visitors would congregate within the Crux and spend time working, chatting and observing together. From this development of the brief I ended up with seating, steps and engaging arched walls to use as plinths.
I didn't want to create something which visitors would sit on for just a moment or two; I envisaged a social center for visitors to the botanics, particularly with younger primary school children in mind. These visitors would congregate within the Crux and spend time working, chatting and observing together. From this development of the brief I ended up with seating, steps and engaging arched walls to use as plinths.
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