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A framework for participating, utilising a strategy of incompleteness. 'Garden beds' are delineated by industrial pavement paint, enabling the local community to complete the garden. Project team: Andrew Burns, Thomas Gray, Alan Powell Landscape Designer: Sarah Eberle Contractor: Conways Planting Installation: Sarah Eberle, St Mungo’s Putting Down Roots, Cityscapes Location: London, UK Year: 2013 Client: The Architecture Foundation, London, Southwark Council, Team London Bridge, Cityscapes Supporters: CPM, Farebrother, MACE, NSW Architects' Registration Board, The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust

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A community-driven garden project in London, utilizing a strategy of incompleteness with industrial pavement paint to encourage local participation, completed in 2013 for The Architecture Foundation and Southwark Council.

A framework for participating, utilising a strategy of incompleteness. 'Garden beds' are delineated by industrial pavement paint, enabling the local community to complete the garden.

Project team: Andrew Burns, Thomas Gray, Alan Powell

Landscape Designer: Sarah Eberle

Contractor: Conways

Planting Installation: Sarah Eberle, St Mungo’s Putting Down Roots, Cityscapes

Location: London, UK

Year: 2013

Client: The Architecture Foundation, London, Southwark Council, Team London Bridge, Cityscapes

Supporters: CPM, Farebrother, MACE, NSW Architects' Registration Board, The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust

Completed: 2013
Client: The Architecture Foundation London Southwark Council Team London Bridge Cityscapes

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Architecture AND have converted a network of laneways in Central London into a unique urban park. The proposal overlaid a ‘harlequin’ geometry on the site, narrowing and widening to create complex perceptions of space. A garden bed was delineated by hot melt road marking paint applied to the low cost asphalt base, creating a zone for placement of pots, placed by the local community. A series of key marker pots in concrete pipes initiated the garden, with planting selection by Chelsea gold-medalist garden designer Sarah Eberle.

More a framework for participation than a landscape design, the proposal utilized a strategic ‘incompleteness’ to enable a sense of ownership by the local community. The garden is now an established place of solace and cherished by the local community.