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The Seeds' Garden / Shenzhen Architecture Biennial

 

The Seeds’ Garden Shenzhen, China. 2022-2023 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB)
Winner of Public Award and Academic Committee Award

 
 

For the former Kingway Brewery’s cistern, we imagined a circular field, to be seeded and cultivated by birds and people. Over time, the garden will develop into a collective project, designed by birds and humans. Visitors were invited to seed the field below them, while birds, thanks to a series of sculptural feeders, will feast on the buffet and fertilize the ground with their guano. The project becomes one of sharing agency over a small piece of the world, and developing an ongoing botanical composition, negotiating desires and idiosyncrasies between fellow visitors, and neighboring birds. As the garden slowly spins on its axis, moved by the breeze, visitors orbit around it and are invited to become bird watchers, observing the developing floating field from a bird’s eye perspective, and gardeners, seeding the field from the suspended walkway. Each of the five feeders is imagined as a folly inspired by the architecture of barns, silos, and agricultural buildings, but also antennas and masts of sailing boats: a small island made from the architectures of earth and wind.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


TEAM Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini, Pedro Daniel Pantaleone, Konstantin Beck CLIENT Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) CURATORS Aric Chen , Andong Lu, Zigeng Wang PROJECT MANAGER Azinta Plantenga PRODUCTION Pico LANDSCAPE Shiyang