Floating Green

Via Designboom: "chinese artist and architect ling fan has completed a public art 'floating green' in shanghai, china. the public art installation located in pudong zhangjiang hi-tech park, detaches the flat lawn from the earth it covers, folds it and structures it to form inhabitable urban furniture. instead of the notion of people having to abide by the sign 'keep off!' people are encouraged to 'hop on!' and touch it, smell it, use it and sense it however we please. the thin structure shakes gently when people sitting on it. floating green rejects sculptural iconography in favor of an urban surface articulated in diverse parts."


:: image via Inhabitat

The idea of the lawn is definitely the point of departure, as ling mentions via Inhabitat: "Lawns are a visual representation of nature in an urban context; but they are anything but natural. The lawn is an engineered product genetically enhanced, mass produced in rolls, cut into uniform strips, transported in a truck, and installed on site by hard human labor.”






:: images via Designboom

(more via Inhabitat, Space Invading)