Gitta Gschwendtner 和 Maria Thereza Alves合作完成了一个叫 ‘Seeds
of Change’的漂
浮花园。
布斯里托尔在1680---1900年间一直是世界贸易驳船的往来口岸，而驳船上携带种子沉
入河床中，历经百年，挖掘起来之后依然能够重新发芽和生长。他们利用一个废弃的
鼓舞驳船，创造了一个水上花园，这里种值了许多的非本土植物，象征着这里过去的
世界贸易海运历史。
花园让游客从多种多度进行体验。种植床高出甲板，人们进入园区后会被植物包围，
然后在上到一个升起的平台上。
该项目遵循可持续发展原则，花园的灌溉直接用泵抽取河水。照明使用太阳能电池板
提供的能源。甲板材料使用了室外型的可持续型的松木。
Seeds of Change
‘Seeds of Change’ is a floating garden; the result of a
collaboration between the
designer Gitta Gschwendtner and the artist Maria Thereza
Alves.
The title ‘Seeds of Change' stems from an ongoing ballast
seed garden project from
Brazillian artist Maria Thereza Alves. Between 1680 and the early
1900's ships' ballast
- earth, stones and gravel from trade boats from all over the world
used to weigh down
the vessel as it docked- was offloaded into the river at Bristol.
This ballast contained
the seeds of plants from wherever the ship had sailed.
Maria Thereza Alves discovered that these ballast seeds
can lie dormant for hundreds
of years, but that by excavating the river bed, it is possible to
germinate and grow these
seeds into flourishing plants.
Working with the University of Bristol Botanic Garden,
Arnolfini and Bristol City Council
and utilising a disused grain barge, Gschwendtner and Alves have
created a Ballast
Seed Garden on Bristol’s Floating Harbour, populated with a variety
of non-native
plants, creating a living history of the city’s trade and maritime
past.
Gitta Gschwendtner's design for the ballast seed garden
aims to give the visitor an
opportunity to experience the garden from various levels and
perspectives. The raised
bed structure with its sunken paths and seating areas immerses the
visitor into the
garden, while the elevated central area allows an overview of the
entire ballast seed
garden as well as its unique position on a floating
barge.
The architecture of the garden works with the structural
constraints of the concrete
barge; the elevated section in the centre conceals and covers the
raised aperture
where grains were originally loaded into the barge.
Sustainability is an important aspect of the project's
objective. Both the garden's
irrigation system - pumped straight from the river - and lighting
are powered by solar
panels, and the construction material used is sustainable pine
treated with an
environmentally friendly oil stain to soften the pine's appearance
and preserve it from
weathering.
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