{"id":509,"date":"2025-07-31T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=509"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:08:25","slug":"mizzi-studio-creates-mushroom-like-pavilion-for-kews-carbon-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/mizzi-studio-creates-mushroom-like-pavilion-for-kews-carbon-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizzi Studio creates mushroom-like pavilion for Kew’s Carbon Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A translucent roof made using flax<\/a> crowns the ornate wooden<\/a> structure of the Carbon Garden Pavilion at London’s Kew Gardens<\/a>, created by architectural designer Mizzi Studio<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pavilion<\/a> forms part of Kew’s newly created Carbon Garden, which has been created to highlight the role of carbon in supporting life on Earth.<\/p>\n

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Mizzi Studio has created the Carbon Garden Pavilion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Mizzi Studio<\/a>, the Carbon Garden Pavilion is designed as a “physical extension” of this landscape and to emulate a living organism.<\/p>\n

Its form, which resembles a mushroom, is crafted from wood and stone, and supports a large overhanging roof made partly from flax fibres.<\/p>\n

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It is designed to emulate a living organism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The pavilion is a symbolic fruiting body and a physical extension of the Carbon Garden’s landscape planting scheme,” studio founder Jonathan Mizzi told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“It’s not quite a tree, not quite a mushroom or plant, but a celebratory marriage of the symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi. It blossoms from the earth as a living organism.”<\/p>\n

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It forms part of Kew’s Carbon Garden. Photo by Mizzi Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Carbon Garden Pavilion is positioned at the heart of the garden and leans towards the sun path.<\/p>\n

It is designed to function as an “intimate and welcoming” shelter, but is also spacious enough to accommodate school groups and community learning events.<\/p>\n

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The pavilion has a wooden structure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Much like flowers that use form, colour, and scent to attract pollinators, the pavilion was designed to draw visitors into the Carbon Garden,” said Mizzi.<\/p>\n

“Its sculptural canopy leans toward the southern sun path, opening with a carnivorous mouth \u2013 a gesture inspired by the Pitcher plants<\/a> found in Kew’s Princess of Wales Conservatory.”<\/p>\n

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The wooden frame rests on stone foundations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The pavilion’s main structure is crafted from ornate glued-laminated timber in larch, raised on foundations of larvikite \u2013 a coarse-grained igneous stone \u2013 negating the need for concrete.<\/p>\n

This framework opens up to support the overhanging canopy, which is made of flax fibres and resin, giving rise to a translucent finish that casts warm light below.<\/p>\n

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The frame is made from glued-laminated timber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“It was important for us to use a full palette of natural materials,” said Mizzi.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to return to stone as one of our most ancient, enduring, and too-often overlooked materials. There’s a timely renaissance in stone happening now,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“From there, the structure grows upward into sustainably sourced European larch, and then transitions into a flax natural fibre composite canopy.”<\/p>\n