Floating Garden
Textile
Floating Garden is an evolutionary triple-layer 3D hyperbolic surface textile. With composite fiber filling and 0.5 mm beads, it substitutes soil and creates a floating green module. Floating garden allows plants to absorb nutrient substances from water while growing moss on the surface is providing food for aquatic organisms. It can be part of ecosystem, an extra resource feeding lake animals, a temporary habitat for water birds or a floating farm breeding vegetables as well as for the use of commercial landscaping with artistic arrangements of plants – offering a new generation of aquatic green material for architecture.
iF Gold Statement
Simple yet intelligent, original, useful and beautiful: Floating Garden is a poetic interplay of nature and technical materials, a three-layer fabric with hyperbolic 3-D surface. When deployed in a wetland ecosystem, Floating Garden benefits fauna and flora by creating a floating island of green and with it an additional source of food. These green islands are a great reinterpretation of resource-saving land creation.
Client / Manufacturer
Design
Taiwan Textile Research Institute
New Taipei, TWTaiwan Textile Research Institute
New Taipei, TWBlack Tailors
Taipei, TWDate of Launch
2015
Development Time
up to 12 months
Target Regions
Asia, Europe, North America
Target Groups
Consumer / User