Landscape & Urban Design Issue 52 2021 | Page 31

GREEN & BLUE INFRASTRUCTURE
Chetwoods , the award-winning architecture practice , designed the centrepiece of the Fifteenth United Nations Biodiversity Conference , which opens in Kunming , China , on 11 October .
The innovative ‘ Future City Garden : Nature and City ’’ – a thoughtprovoking depiction of biodiversity through architectural and landscape design – welcomes delegates as they arrive at the conference centre building hosting COP 15 . The entire garden will be equivalent to over 10 of the largest ever displays at
London ’ s world famous Chelsea Flower Show .
The Future City Garden encapsulates COP 15 ’ s ideals , using a representation of the Sun at its centre . Chetwoods ’ has used a hydrogen fuel cell – an innovative form of clean and efficient energy – to create this powerful symbol of life , with a surface made up of photovoltaic panels .
Five gardens radiate from the Future City Garden following a circular pattern , each of which communicates messages relating the various themes of food , sleep , shelter , air and water . In summary , these are :
• Food garden – an area incorporating herb walls and growing shelves to demonstrate the importance of food production and the need for cities to shorten supply chains by growing food on vertical and horizontal surfaces . It is initially structured as a series of urban allotments which progressively move into a more rural setting
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