A Lilliputian World

This year we have produced half a dozen designs for Evergrow Group – a client who aims to, and is, building high end housing developments. We’re working with White + Dickson Architects and for each of these projects they have produced a scale model to help understand how things will look.

When we design we’re used to using our imagination and knowledge to guide us with the future landscape, to understand the architectural components to best create a desirable, liveable, saleable product. So it was a pleasant surprise to find our landscape design transposed from drawings to Lilliputian trees, shrubs and hedges surrounding a multilevel buildings where we could gaze within the building through the windows and conversely look through the windows (from the other side of the model) and see the garden outside. In a world where 3D drawings are accessible on a computer screen to most architects, including White + Dickson, it’s nice to see something hand made.

Unlike most developments we see, with this one we’ve been encouraged to create bespoke gardens that compliment each individual residence as opposed to lifeless, commercial mono cultures, devoid of soul.