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Urban Oasis Installation and Garden

Designed to demonstrate sustainable energy production within an oasis for city dwellers. It is environmentally sustainable and adaptable for different locations and uses.
Size
Location
London
Status
Complete
Contractor
Designers
Chetwoods Architects
Client
Sponsored by Chetwoods
Photographer
Edmund Sumner

Urban Oasis is an award-winning environmental installation.

The 12-metre high kinetic structure mimics the design of a growing flower. It is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, with photovoltaic petals which open in response to the sun, utilizing light to generate power. Supplemented power from a hydrogen fuel cell and wind turbine, and the use of harvested rainwater for irrigation and cooling, make it self-sufficient.

At night the entire structure is transformed into a light sculpture. It was a self-funded R&D project that has travelled around Europe as an educational installation. It has been sited in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Cannes, and formed the central feature of a gold medal-winning show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

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Project Highlights
  • Award-winning environmental installation
  • Self-funded R&D project
  • Utilises daylight to generate power
  • Interactive and educational
  • Designed to showcase the latest environmental technologies
  • RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winning show garden

A comment on the project

"The 10-metre tall glass and steel structure, designed by Laurie Chetwood, can only be described as a marvel of sculpture, technology and engineering, displaying a veritable cornucopia of green and environmental technologies, from solar and wind power to rain catchment systems."
Yuka Yoneda
InHabitat