Foods for Life Parklet, 2013
Adelaide, SA
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The Foods for Life Parklet is a removable/ recyclable installation that brings green and human-scaled relief to a hard street environment, here in Gawler Place, the City’s second busiest pedestrian thoroughfare.
If the need arises it can be removed in a matter of hours and re-deployed to another location.
Fabricated from steel and timber, it can be recycled.
For now though, in this current life, natural finishes reflect the focus of the health food shop; and pre-existing internal colour-branding is drawn outside on tabletops.
Its planted edges not only bring a small pocket of greenery to the street, but its deciduous elm sits proudly as a symbol of the seasons in an environment overwhelmingly of things man-made.
Having been successful in a submission to be part of the Adelaide City Council Parklet Program, FOODS FOR LIFE sought out Troppo to assist in designing and working through a procurement maze with multiple stakeholder interests. Not only was this a pilot project for ACC, but that the clients had just taken on the business and were still finding their feet added to the excitement.
...But already it is finding itself to be a niche destination for the downtown Community; and it has proven a financial success for the owners.
The Parklet has become an exclamation mark along Gawler Place, an installation that stops people, allowing them to notice and enter a shopfront that often they previously walked past.