Although I didn't manage to get tickets for Chelsea this year I did tune into some of the live coverage from the show. One of the gardens that captured my attention was the Bradstone Show Garden. My initial reason for liking the garden was the large spherical sculpture in one corner. It utalises hexagonal structures to create a shape that reflects structures in nature such as honeycombs. I then realised the concept behind the garden, '600 Days with Bradstone has been inspired by the Millennium and a new era in scientific and design idioms. The garden has been researched for eight years with input from the European Space Agency (ESA), which is researching the psychological effects of spending long periods in space, and the British Science Museum.' (Royal Horticultural Society) I thought that some areas of the garden were overconcerned with replicating Mars's surface and ecosystem, such as the large crator for relaxing and enjoying the planting- slightly unrealistic on Mars or in the average garden. However I was very impressed with how Sarah Eberle the garden designer selected the plants in the garden for their contribution to biomass and the carbon oxygen cycle, and researched into which plants and foods could be grown on Mars.
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that totally reminds me of professor hann and hes truncated icosohedrons and all the rest. some of the designs at the royal chelsea flower show were really good.
It's so weird... my stepdad used to work for bradstone until recently, and i never really took interest in his work because I thought it was dull!! But your comments here made me realise that as designers we can be inspired by anything, and should resist ignoring things that appear boring or irrelevant on the surface, as we never know what we may be able to draw from them at one time or another!
I think Design theory lectures made me look at this sculpture in a completly different way to how I would have a year ago.
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