Designed to encourage individuals and communities to develop sustainable food growing spaces and enhance urban greening.

The garden was laid out in a formal, rectilinear layout to reflect its urban setting, replicating a model Modernist landscape, mixing typical urban profiles with references to horizontal and vertical allotments. It demonstrated how many elements of a traditional allotment could be located in a wide range of urban settings represented in a 9-metre tall ‘tower block’ and 5-metre high 90-room ‘insect hotel’.

The central structure embodied environmentally sustainable features including a hydroponic wall fed by a borehole via a water tower and power to irrigate provided by a wind turbine and photovoltaic wall converting daylight into electricity.

The garden was designed by Laurie Chetwood in partnership with landscape architect and garden designer Patrick Collins.