Its been a while since I last went to the Eden Project…in fact it was at the start of my first year in Plymouth as part of an architecture field trip to check out the architectural qualities of the ‘domes’. One of the first things that struck me about Eden was how cool it was! The space is amazing…and to think its smack bang in the depths of deepest darkest Cornwall! Apart from looking like some kind of space station that fell out of the sky its amazing to think about the ecosystems that they maintain within the ‘biomes‘. From what I remember you completely forget where you are and get immersed in the environment you are exploring because you are actually walking through a slice of rainforest with tropical birds flying overhead and the accurate humidity of the atmosphere. Until you look up through the clear dome to see you are still in Cornwall!

This got me thinking about the Production of Space module that I am taking this year. This first assignment is to complete a precedent study into a ’space man/woman/thing’ of our choosing. The study should “reveal core principles behind an artist, architects, designers approach to intervening / negotiating space”. I am thinking of taking a trip up to Eden in the next few weeks or so to take it all in and get some more ’stuff’.

I thought that the Eden Project would be a good topic for this study due to the fact it contains 3 different ecosystems from different parts of the world within an old clay pit in south cornwall. Its a bonkers concept and Tim Smit (the father of the eden project) must have been high on something…but its cool and it works.

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