Giant architectural trees in the pop-up garden at Birmingham - Parametric Architecture

PoliNations project’s architectural and scenery plan is simply a multidisciplinary collaborative enactment led by Trigger Collective. The project’s plan squad includes multidisciplinary decorator and artist Carl Robertshaw, research and spatial plan workplace THISS Studio, costume designer Bronia Housman, events specialist Dock Street Events, and horticulturalists Chris and Toby Marchant.

The epic wood plot task is located astatine 1300 sqm of Victoria Square successful Birmingham.

The task was commissioned arsenic portion of UNBOXED: Creativity successful the UK and presented arsenic portion of the Birmingham 2022 Festival.

Designers and experts cautiously curate the landscape. The country includes 5 mega histrion structures that predominate the side, specified arsenic a 1000 plants and flowers.

The nationalist creation installation’s trees, Mother Trees, are astir 12 meters; and cod rainwater, make energy utilizing upwind power, beryllium surrounded by flowers and plants. The plot besides hosted airy shows, workshops and performances, unrecorded music, and dance. Also, these installations are made arsenic sustainably arsenic imaginable with recycled materials.

PoliNations is inspired by the information that 80% of plants successful UK metropolis gardens originated from overseas. Of these inspirations, the projects focused connected values of sustainability, earthy diversity, accessibility, and legacy. The plot includes astir 6000 plants successful the park. During this project, galore caller plants were co-planted by section schools, communities, and guests.

According to Martin Green, Chief Creative Officer astatine UNBOXED, “PoliNations is simply a joyous solemnisation of the unthinkable creativity and taste diverseness crossed the UK today. We’re thrilled to person commissioned the festival arsenic a portion of UNBOXED and that it volition besides supply a spectacular escaped lawsuit for everyone successful the last period of the Birmingham 2022 Festival. Audiences from the portion and acold and wide volition beryllium capable to acquisition an lawsuit that embraces divers forms of creation and myriad ways to archer captivating idiosyncratic and corporate stories that bespeak the magnificent richness of our society.”

Project Info

Creative Director: Angie Bual
Design Director: Carl Robertshaw
Production Design: Bronia Housman
Architectural And Spatial Design: Thiss Studio
Design Engineers: Format Engineers
Technical Direction Dock Street Events
Horticultural Design: Chris and Toby Marchant
Landscape Installation: Scotscape Urban Greening
Lighting Designer: Matt Daw
Sound Designer: Tom Gibbons
Orchestration: Max Perryment
Props Manager: Amy Carroll
Trunk Structures Sh Structures
Canopy Structures Xkx Projects Ltd
Fabric Structures Airformance Design
Collaboration: Assembly Festival, Birmingham City Council
Photography: Jae W V Kim, Katja Ogrin & James Robertshaw