TD3 | Green Room | 11.05.10

Some interesting small scale interventions using greenery (and cool graphics to boot).  Happy Friday.

1. Parc Disponible (Stefan Gzyl)

 :: image via Arch Daily

An intriguing project via Arch Daily, a proposal for inserting nature into the city " “Parc Disponible” is a glass box enclosing a mini-park for individual use within the city."  Disponible translates to 'available' en Francais - so the simple 'Available Park' offers: "...an extreme solution within the parameters of the competition: a park-for-one, a garden for individual and private relaxation and the momentary break from the urban environment, opening the senses to the intensified stimulation of nature in a simulated ecosystem of 15 square meters."

:: images via Arch Daily

2. Green Room (Casanova+Hernandez)

:: image via World Landscape Architect

Perhaps a more literal interpretation of the above, the 'Green Room' via World Landscape Architect is a temporary installation in Rotterdam that "...experiments with the role of hybrid interventions (mix of landscape+architecture+sculpture) to activate the urban life of our city centres... The intervention transforms an anonymous area of the public space of the city into an open room for the citizens that works as a green island characterized by its domestic character and strong identity."

:: images via World Landscape Architect

3. Villafranca de los Barros (ETB Studio)

 :: image via ArchDaily

Via ArchDaily: "The new centre of hospitality in Villafranca de los Barros is a dynamic complex which is more like a town than a building; it is a small, protected, comfortable world, a “barrio blanco” carpeted with thousands of brightly coloured flowers and able to relate with the surrounding countryside, which it is deeply rooted to."

:: images via ArchDaily