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Chelsea Flower Show

This pavilion for the Chelsea Flower Show 2002 forms the architectural centrepiece of the garden scheme designed by Mark Anthony Walker in collaboration with SWA and Jane Wernick Associates.The scheme involved collaboration between architects, landscape architects, plant specialists and landscaping contractors, structural engineers, hydro engineers and steelwork fabricators. Planned over two years, the garden was constructed in just three weeks. Designed to be largely prefabricated, the pavilion itself took just three days to erect.

The garden is for a plot 10 x 23m and is designed to show how sustainable practices such as water recycling, the use of solar energy and landscape husbandry, i.e. coppiced woodlands and reed beds, can unite aesthetically and meaningfully into a large garden enclosure focused around a modern pavilion building. The structure has an innovative folded glass and plywood roof supported on tree-like steel columns

 

 
Chelsea Flower Show

Detail of the roof
Detail of the roof
Detail of the roof The completed pavilion Photovoltaic technology in use