SPACES BUILDINGS MAKE
Assembled Landscape
A project by Andrew Kearney, AHRC Research Fellow
Tue. 2.35pm, 23/5/06
Thur. 3.05pm, 3/11/06
Thur. 11.15am, 9/2/07
Landscape Consultants: Derek Lovejoy & Partners, Planting Plan
for Cat Hill Campus 1979.
Friday, 3.15pm, 3/11/06 Trees been cut back to reviel view
An artificial landscape maintained by contract gardeners creates a buffer between the Cat Hill campus and the outside world. Nothing seems to occur on this perimeter, it is a space that is familiar yet alien and inaccessible. This carefully crafted “natural” boundary is a cordoned-off corridor around the university. The flora was designed by Landscape Enterprise Ltd, who designed the grounds around Cat Hill in 1979. Conservative local building codes have mandated that any new building on the Cat Hill site be limited to one-floor structures with green roofs. Does this mean that the perimeter fills a void and consoles all those who believe that greenery is more natural and thus more human than asphalt and concrete?
Photographs of this changing cordon were taken earlier last year and large double AO posters were sited in the 5 areas around this boundry where the orignally photographs were taken. This disruption of our temporal relationship to the perimeter – that we see images of bare winter trees and foliage when we expect greenery – allows us to shift these spaces out of the background of our gaze and re-examine our relationship to these environments.
Layout of grounds and buildings at Cat Hill Campus 1979.
