The extraordinary scheme of the ‘King Abdullah International Gardens’ (KAIG), by Barton Willmore International houses an array of nursery spaces in and around two interlocking crescent forms in outskirts of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Removed from the central city, and set in the arid desert, the gardens will mimic the plant life from the jurassic and cretaceous periods.
KAIG’s overarching theme presents a chronological representation of flora in a distribution of areas and includes ‘the aviary’-a free flight facility for birds and shelter for exotic species, the ‘physics garden’-designed with the parameters of islamic geometry, and a maze that differs from traditional hedge labyrinths. The project draws on the expertise of the Natural History Museum, and also offers recreational areas to constitute a vast program for visitors, realized in partnership with engineers Buro Happold.
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