Created Space

Saturday, 10 January 2009

a cold wintry december day

the site very nearly finished by the builders !

Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Phase 1

The construction of the garden has been split in to three phases :

Phase 1 : Hard landscaping - including paths, areas for planting and lighting.

Phase 2: Main permanent features, such as the water feature and benches.

Phase 3 : Other features, such as planting and artworks.

At the moment the project has enough funds to finance Phase 1,

but needs to raise more to realise the rest of the garden.

We are looking for sponsors if any potential donors are reading this!

Please get in touch!

The image above is a draughtsman's scale drawing for Phase 1, for the building contractors, local company Elphistone and Howard , to work with.

The garden space will be partly paved using Enviroglass Slabs, which everyone seemed to like. Enviroglass are a local company mainly producing concrete slabs in which recycled glass is the main ingredient.

The CS Team visited the Enviroglass Workshop during their research outings and were given a really interesting tour of the production line.

The slabs can look great when the glass is revealed and allowed to sparkle, which is achieved by burning off the top surface of the slab with acid. I returned to Enviroglass armed with some stencilling materials and assisted by Chris, who manages the workshop, played explored ways we could transfer designs onto the slabs, through the etching process.

Our intention is to transfer a selection of designs and texts produced during the workshops, onto the slabs in the garden space.