Chelsea Flower Show 2023: Canvas screens and paint 🎨 The Nurture Garden designed by @sarahpricelandscapes Sections of the boundary wall of Sarah’s garden were made of stretched canvas, painted with plant-based paints. We developed and made the canvasses and the paint for the garden, to provide a low-carbon wall that also referenced the paintings and colour palette of Cedric Morris @benton.end. The canvas material was sourced as waste from film studios, who use the materials for throwaway scenic backgrounds. The paints were designed and made by us, influenced by natural, historic Scandinavian paint recipes. The paint protects traditional timber buildings, and contains rye flour and linseed oil. We also added demolition waste as pigment and to add texture, combined with natural pigments from local sands (from @crocus.co.uk) and indigo plant 🌱 dye, for the blue and mauve colours. The canvases were undercoated at our studio, and the top-coats where applied by Sarah Price. We have tested this exterior paint for lightfastness, and are really enjoying the finishes, smell (!) and protection it can give to lower grade materials, to prolong their life in harsh exterior conditions. Plastic free! Petroleum free! Plant based! 🌱♻️🌳🎨 See our website (link in bio) for more on our contribution to the garden. @rachel_asl @gardenmuseum @thenurturegroup @garden_build @crocus.co.uk #plantpaint #plantbased #wasteisaresource #fineartpainting #chelseaflowershow #chelseaflowershow2023 #sustainablearchitecture #naturalbuidling #materialdesign #plantdye #plantpigment #plantcolour @beahemmings.designandcraft @matildagrover @ashleyjkempton #lwsjournal ...

Chelsea Flower Show 2023: Straw-bale walls 🌾 Nurture Garden designed by @sarahpricelandscapes. Large sections of the boundary walls for Sarah’s garden were made with straw bales, and coated with raw, unpainted render, applied by @guyvalentineltd. The bales gave a thickness and solidity to the walls, in contrast to the thin, painted canvas screens. We borrowed from thatching techniques to stake the bales with Hazel rods, and stitched and tied them back to a frame, using a long steel needle 🪡. We chose the bales as ideal low-carbon walling for the temporary exhibition at Chelsea, and they’ll be composted after the show. Our renders show the undulations of the bales, and were coloured using excavated sand from nearby @crocus.co.uk (excavated whilst building a new reservoir), natural pigments and brick dust. Curved sections in the walls were formed with small cylindrical bales that we made using waste hop bines from @abushelofhops. These allowed for more sculptural shapes to be formed around the planting. See our website (link in bio) for more on our contribution to the garden. @rachel_asl @garden_build @thenurturegroup #strawbale #strawbalegarden #chelseagardenshow #strawarchitecture #naturalbuilding #materialdesign #lwsjournal ...

Chelsea Flower Show 2023: waste-based concrete features ♻️ Nurture Garden designed by @sarahpricelandscapes. The majority of the hard landscape features: table, blocks, paver bricks and vessels were made using our low-carbon, waste-based concrete blend. 100% of the aggregates were sourced as waste @crocus.co.uk nurseries, where the fabrication took place. The yellow ochres came from their Bagshot Sand, excavated for a new reservoir, the pink tones came from crushed brick material and over-ordered aggregates. We designed a making strategy to enable quick casting and finishing techniques that could expose the aggregates for decorative and non-slip properties, or more time-consuming polished surfaces for a few special surfaces such as the table and some of the vessel interiors. These features will go on to a new life @benton.end ♻️♻️♻️We will be releasing a series of guidance documents this summer that explain our methodology and will give recipes and advice for making and specifying low-carbon construction materials. The series of documents will start with waste-based concretes 🏋️‍♀️♻️🪨 #lwsjournal @rachel_asl #chelseaflowershow ...

Gold!!! 🏅 Congratulations and thank you @sarahpricelandscapes for inviting us into a very collaborative team for the Nurture Garden at Chelsea flower show. With @crocus.co.uk @garden_build @rachel_asl @guyvalentineltd sponsored by @thenurturegroup for @gardenmuseum @benton.end See our website (link in bio) for more on our contribution to the garden. #dreamteam #chelseaflowershow2023 #chelseaflowershow #lwsjournal ...

Samples of materials for some bespoke shower trays for @thesecretcampsite @ruralworkshop. Testing for non-slip vs foot comfort vs cleanability! Made using waste brick aggregates ♻️ #lowcarbonconcrete #materialdesign #surfacedesign #architecture #lwsjournal ...

Prototyping for @assembleofficial. Waste-based lime mortars with tiles by @granbyworkshop ♻️♻️♻️#buildingcraft #wasteisaresource #lwsjournal #architecture ...

We are hiring! Link in bio for more information…. We are looking to employ a highly versatile designer for the built environment, to lead on technical and delivery phases across the studio’s portfolio of projects, as well as building our capacity for research and best practice around circular economy for construction. This role would suit a landscape architect, or architect, with an excellent knowledge of materials and their application, as well as a good understanding of landscape systems. The ideal candidate will have proven experience and enthusiasm for new thinking and methods of sustainable construction and circular economy. The role requires curiosity and creativity, as well as rigorous attention to detail and skill, in order to apply and develop our alternative working methodologies, designed to facilitate low carbon construction. The successful applicant will be highly collaborative, ready to learn from and support others, as well as facilitating a high level of stakeholder engagement. They will be a central figure in our small studio, with an ambition to help shape the growing practice. #landscapearchitecturejobs #architecturejobs #circulareconomyjobs #localworksstudio #lwsjournal ...

Thanks to @carmodygroarke for including our work in their current exhibition @designmuseumgent. Describing the process of design for the new museum extension. Materials, bricks, tools and video document our collaboration with @bcarchitectsandstudies to develop external bricks made from excavation waste and other by-products from the city of Gent. 🧱♻️🧱🇧🇪🪨♻️⛏🧱…..also it’s been great to get out of the UK for a bit!!!#circularflanders #wasteisaresource #circulareconomy #europeanunion #materialdesign #design #architecture #lwsjournal #brick #brickdesign ...

In January 2021 we were approached by architects @carmodygroarke to design a prototype low-carbon waste-based brick for the facade of a new extension to @designmuseumgent in Belgium. We developed a material and fabrication strategy using Gent waste materials, that could be cleanly produced into bricks close to the construction site in the city. We are delighted that following further development and testing in Belgium by the awesome @bcmaterials_org the brick has now been approved for use! The Gent Waste Brick is a pressed Lime brick made with 63% waste from the city of Gent ♻️🧱 @transarchitectuurstedenbouw @sogent9000 #wasteisaresource #brick #gentwastebrick #materialdesign #brickdesign #architecture #gent #facadedesign #lwsjournal #bricktok ...

...following on from last post. More samples for false reefs made from waste shell materials #shellcrete #heavygardening Andrew Merritt @somethingandson @dewiuridge #landscapearchitecture #oysterarchitecture #reef #falsereef #oyster #oysters #livingreef #wasteisaresource #materialdesign #mussels #molusc #biodiversity #landscapearchitecture #lwsjournal #oysterreef #shellcrete #shell #shellfish #musselshells #liverpool #tateliverpool #oysterreefrestoration ...

Prototyping a new garden chair with attached side table for @maggiesinsouthampton. The finished piece will look quite different, but it’s great to realise in plywood first. Many thanks again to @jsanders22 #lwsjournal ...

This is a castable waste-based concrete we have recently developed, using a high proportion of site waste for a project with @bakerbrown_studio @elliottwood_partnership @chalmersandcosussexltd ♻️. Very happy that it has just passed the independent compressive strength tests 🏋️‍♀️ We are casting several large window and door cills for the project with this material. Looking forward to seeing them polished! 28.8 N/mm2 @ 28 days…….95% UK waste…..of which….85% is site waste……♻️ #materialdesign #circulardesign #compressivestrength #strong #materialscience #buildingmaterials #makingmaterials #lwsjournal #design #concrete #concretedesign #polishedconcrete #wasteisaresource #sustainabledesign #terrazzo #terrazzodesign #surfacedesign #architecture #sustainablearchitecture #buildingcraft #greenarchitecture #landscapearchitecture #landscapearchitect #concretearchitecture #reuse #reusearchitecture #architecturephotography #archidaily #architexture #archilovers ...

Clay plaster samples for a current project in Denmark for @hedeskov_ with architects @djernesandbell. Using site excavation clay, iron-rich sand and plant fibre from bulrush #clayplaster #plaster #materialdesign #bulrush #architecture #lwsjournal #design #sustainabledesign #clayplasters #clay #naturalplaster #clayarchitecture ...

Paver bricks made by us for @exchangeerith garden by @sarahpricelandscapes. Made using demolition materials from recent building works at The Exchange ♻️. The 1000 bricks will form hard landscaped areas in the new garden, and reference the original parquet flooring inside the building. Looking forward to seeing these in-situ. #wastebasedbricks #paverbricks #herringboneflooring #parquetflooring #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture #brick #brickpavers #bricklove #hardlandscaping #gardendesign #erith #crayfordbrickearth ...

Sharing some images of our recent material research into alternatives to Hemp for plant-based insulation. We are working with a farm local to us to test agricultural by-products from their existing crops, for use within various construction applications 🌱 Looking forward to the growing season this year, and further experiments 🔬 #plantbasedarchitecture #agriculturearchitecture #architecture #sustainablearchitecture #hempcrete #plantpower #materialdesign #lwsjournal #localworksstudio #farmlife #landscapearchitecture #farming #farmfun #farm #fromthefarm ...

Excited to share that we’ve been working with @carmodygroarke and @transarchitectuurstedenbouw to develop a bespoke brick, for the extension to @designmuseumgent. For the last few months we’ve been testing and prototyping excavation sub-soil materials from Gent, blending them with lime, and forming bricks in a high-pressure press. The eventual fabrication of the bricks will happen as close to Design Museum Gent as possible, to reduce material transportation. It’s a great project, and a real pleasure to be involved. #designmuseumgent #lwsjournal #brick #bricklove #localrockscene #architecture #materialdesign @circular.flanders #wastebasedbricks #circulareconomy #gent #ghent @restarchitecten ...

Fun project making window and door cills for @bakerbrown_studio using 100% waste aggregates from a construction site ♻️The bespoke mortar has been tested, and exceeds the appropriate British Standard for compressive strength 🏋️ #materialdesign #reuse #architecture #sustainabledesign #surfacedesign #circulardesign #wasteisaresource #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture #terrazzo #terrazzodesign #reusearchitecture #design ...

Paver tiles for a garden by @sarahpricelandscapes. Made by us from waste and excess construction materials ♻️ Looking forward to seeing these in-situ. #wastebrick #c.andre 🧱 #lwsjournal #localworksstudio #brick #bricks #architecture #landscapearchitecture #hardlandscaping #hardlandscape #paverbrick #wastebricks #wastebasedbricks #materials #architecturematerials ...