Horticultural Spa

Nine Elms, London

Loop.pH team:
Art Direction & Concept Design: Rachel Wingfield
Creative Technical Direction: Mathias Gmachl
Computational Design: Andrei Jipa, Agostino Nickl
Production Design & Fabrication Team: Karla Torio Rivera (Lead design on the Experience Design and workshop series); Federica Tedeschi (Lead design on the inflatable); James Fox (Lead design on engineering details and integration); Adam Harris (Lead design on horticulture and plants); Eve Izaak (graphic design)
Master of Ceremonies during event: Hannah Ringham
Music: Mileece
Huge thanks to: Kaja Ritzau-Reid; Marco Cosmi; Anna Ekonomou; Alice Maffei; Orla Lawn; Jinhee Park; Emilia Ochocka; Noor Khazem; Hye Lee; Chris Lewis; Maria Vasquez; Celestina Vinci; Will Cook; Tamara Cortez

Project Partners:
Loop.pH; The Nine Elms Vauxhall Partnership; The Brick Box; Haeckel’s Made of Margate; Format Engineers; Machines Room; Pendred Fogging; Hedge Herbs; Handmade Apothecary; Meditation by Frankie Walker & Richard Holroyd

I joined the amazing Loop.pH team for this temporary public space positioned on the Thames River Path, hosting an experimental tea ceremony featuring nebulized fragrances inside an inflatable structure. I was involved in developing the parametric model of the hyperbolic gridshell entrance structure and prepare it for fabrication. 18mm plywood pieces were milled using a CNC router, sanded, varnished and glued in the studio and finally assembled on site.

June 2015