Projects
2019
SPROUTS
A Floating Garden for Ephemeral Inhabitation
Amsterdam, The Netherlands • Collaboration with Liam Martin / Superinfra
Timed with the arrival of spring, a soft, vegetal landscape is embraced by a pond at Vondelpark. A floating labyrinth of flowers, grasses, and shrubs, Sprouts draws from Amsterdam’s houseboats and riparian infrastructures, extending the park into the water.
Built from urban tree mulch, packed into salvaged oil drums and inoculated with mycelium, Sprouts decomposes over time, releasing nutrients back into the pond. Over its lifecycle, the pavilion evolves into a permanent artificial island, integrating with the pond’s ecosystem.
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Designed to transmogrify—embracing entropy as a generative force and dissolving into cycles of growth and return, the pavilion is not an inert structure but an agent in the park’s composition, ephemeral yet integral to its seasonal rhythms.
- Awarded Editor’s Choice Award
- Featured in POOL Magazine Issue n.7: FLOAT, KoozARCH Archipelago, and ASSOCIATION vol. 11
fig.1 Sprouts in its first growth
fig.2 Phyto-translation over time
fig.3 Phyto-translation
fig.4 Sprouts in its first growth
fig.5 Sprouts in its first growth
fig.6 Sprouts in its mid-stages of growth
fig.7 Sprouts in its later stages of growth
fig.8 Sprouts in its first growth