Hovering Garden

Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC USA

The Hovering Garden is an honorably mentioned proposal for the 2016 Socrates Sculpture Park Folly competition hosted by the Architectural League of New York. Imagine a floating garden, lingering just over the horizon- a measure of the park itself, lifted and held over the landscape below. The Hovering Gardens is a living pavilion: a greenhouse with a planted enclosure above and flexible learning spaces below. Simple in form but complex in function, the Hovering Garden allows nature to defy gravity housing a spacious greenhouse, theater seating, library, rain-fed reflection pool, meditation garden, and spaces for doing.

The Hovering Garden is designed to be Socrates Sculpture Park’s incubator for new talent and new life, a space for learning by interacting with each other and nature. A place of wonder for the curious, for nature lovers, and for creative doers

Organized by The Architectural League of New York and Socrates Sculpture Park, Folly 2016 is a design/build competition that explores the relationship between art and architecture, while also durably addressing and improving the conditions at Socrates Sculpture Park.

Team: Fabian Busse, Leon Lai, Eric Tan, Nicolai Schlapps, Leo Mulvehill