Airplot

April 23. Hand in of our design for the Greenpeace competition, Airplot. Greenpeace set up a joint ownership (+90,000) of a small piece of land in the village of Stipson, right on the spot where Heathrow’s third runway was due to be built. The brief was to design a sustainable, habitable and defence-able site. My idea was to turn the land into NaturesPlot, where habitats could be built to attract wildlife, so that preservation orders would be introduced to protect the wildlife on the site and they would be the guardians, rather than humans. As Orwell said, two ‘legs good, four legs better’. The plot would be ring fenced with gabions, which in parts would form bunkers to observe the wildlife and the remaining gabions would be built on site around newly planted native trees. Whilst I did not win the competition, I did get Greenpeace to acknowledge that Landscape Architects existed