This garden structure by the New York-based design studio New Affiliates and the architect-historian Samuel Stewart-Halevy is a prototype for a project announced back in 2020. The Testbeds project sees the designers repurposing old architectural models and mock-ups from large-scale projects and incorporating them into new structures. This is exactly what this garden structure, which incorporates a greenhouse and a welcoming community space, in Queens, New York City is. New Affiliates and Samuel Stewart-Halevy built this shed "partly from a model created for a luxury condominium in Tribeca."
The Testbeds project explores new ways of reusing materials and clearly aims to move the architectural practice to zero-waste because usually, the large architectural models for big projects like a luxury condominiums and thrown away after they are no longer useful.
Mockup-Inspired Garden Structures
New Affiliates & Samuel Stewart-Halevy Create Testbeds
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