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full immersion An installation on the grounds of a Melbourne, Australia, gallery by James Carey and Taylor Knights invites visitors to wade and wonder
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landscapers, engineers, and fabricators led by James Carey, Peter Knights, and James Taylor
SQUARE FEET OF RECYCLABLE CEMENT SHEETS
1 MILLION
VISITORS
12,000 GALLONS OF WATER
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COURTESY OF TAYLOR KNIGHTS
1. For pond[er], winner of the annual NGV Architecture Commission at Australia’s National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne architecture studio Taylor Knights and Sydney artist James Carey began by installing a sub floor of marine-grade plywood panels and ethically sourced pine beams in the museum’s Grollo Equiset Garden. 2. The subfloor forms a platform around Draped Seated Woman, a Henry Moore bronze that’s part of the NGV’s permanent collection. 3. The resulting 49-by-70-foot expanse gets topped by cement sheets and then a waterproof pink cork liner before it’s filled with water pumped from an existing source on the grounds to become a “pond.” 4. Sheets of matching fiberglass-reinforced plastic grating were trucked into the museum’s garden. 5. The plastic forms a pathway to the pond.
“It facilitates an open and inclusive environment to reflect on our current ecological adversities” —Taylor Knights MARCH.22
INTERIOR DESIGN
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