‘Moss your City’ at The Architecture Foundation
On walking into the exhibition, ‘Moss your City’ presents a sensory experience. Hit by the smell and humidity of damp moss that covers the walls, the installation offers an immersive experience that takes you from the busy London street to a mossy garden escape. This warm, green environment invites you to look touch and move deeper into the space. Whilst there, take a seat and read about ‘guerrilla gardening’ or a ‘moss graffiti recipe’ in the exhibition’s accompanying newspaper. Lit by coloured lights designed by Spiers and Major, the installation has a particularly powerful impact towards the evening casting mossy shadows within the space.
Inspired by the Norwegian landscape and ‘greening’ projects taking place around London such as the ‘Bankside Urban Forest’, this is a really interesting exhibition that stimulates ideas around creating a greener city, and aims to inspire Londoner’s to get involved with urban gardening.
‘Moss your City’ is devised by all female Norwegian architectural practice, PUSHAK. In response to a brief set by the Architecture Foundation, to ‘propose an installation that explores the relationship between contemporary architecture, landscape and natural resources’, PUSHAK was selected to develop their concept and represent Norway in the International Architecture showcase at the Architecture Foundation, to ‘propose an installation that explores the relationship between contemporary architecture, landscape and natural resources’, PUSHAK was selected to develop their concept and represent Norway in the International Architecture showcase at the LFA 2010.
The Architecture Foundation, Ground Floor East, 136 – 148 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2TU - 19 June – 6th August
