What a brilliant composition of steel bars and earth. This is the garden shed belonging to a private residence in Edinburgh. The functional domain of the garden has become a garden sculpture.
The designers have drawn on the traditional basket or willow fence weave to create a building form that is almost fluid but with reinforcing bars. Morphing with the ground plane and the garden bed edging the normally rigid steel bars have a flexible appearance. Various patterns are created with the light and contrasting landscaping materials to create a very unique garden shed.
It is part of a wider garden design created by Water Gems who are landscape water specialists. They won the 2009 British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) Grand Award for this design.
Garden Beet 
January 27th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
[…] In the last week I have seen two buildings that apply the concept of weaving metal with much greater affect than the woven metal fabrics. The first one is the garden shed that is built from a weave of reinforced bars. I briefly describe this building in my article on Working Garden Sculpture. […]
March 12th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Amazing structures – I’d love one in my garden!
October 28th, 2010 at 9:36 am
garden sheds are really great specially during the summer, they provide adequate shade and a place to cool down-*: