![]() He’s extremely practical and really broadened our horizons on how green roofs attenuate water and can support passive systems – they are an integral part of the architecture. Naila Yousuf: We worked with Dusty Gedge at London’s Museum of the Home, where we created a garden for the 21st century on the roof of a new studio building as part of the museum’s Gardens Through Time series.ĭusty is the top green roof expert so we went straight to him for advice before the design of the building was even developed. We had a lot of fun together, although as it was quite a major piece of art, we were very serious about it too. It was a joy to work with Susanna and her team. When you get a breeze you get these amazing caustics all over the walls, inside and out, as the sunlight and water reflections on the carving change constantly with the time of day and weather conditions. This was then upscaled into a guide for CNC-cutting the stone by specialist subcontractor Stone Circle.Īll the different parts of the stone grid had to be spot on to the millimetre for the relief to work, and they are. When she had finalised the design, she created her stone model with numbered depths for different parts of the relief, which was divided into a grid of panels. She showed the client the drawing and told them they had to trust her, and to their credit they did.Īs part of the design development, Susanna created test blocks and set these up in her studio and we all got very wet with buckets of water, seeing how the stone worked with the water. ![]() We discussed with Susanna how rain runs off buildings so that it was detailed accordingly, and reviewed together how the stone would sit in relation to the water.ĭuring this time, Susannah created a red, abstract painting that embodied the spirit of her design for the wall and the lines that formed the relief. ![]() ![]() The 20m by 5m wall comprises three planes of Clipsham stone carved inside and out. The collaboration took four years with a lot of experimentation and toing and froing between Susanna, us and the client. ![]()
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