

Botanical Research Terrace is an inflatable prosthetic stand-in in for a conservatory and water tank elements
of the tower, which were demolished due to structural deterioration. The six-meter high inflatable dimensions were taken from the architects’ plans and elevations.
A single transparent membrane separates the interior
of the structure from the outside environment creating
its own climate independent of the external atmosphere.
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Taking reference from the dimensions of the tower, tables were fabricated as stand-ins for the imagined furnishings housed in the original conservatory.
These objects revive the physicality of this mutable and ill-defined space. The furniture becomes evocative of human activity within this pressurised chamber.
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Collage staff and performers reading a script based on archival data generated by the Phase Two building’s quantity surveyors between 1973 and 1978.
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