There is around 1.8 million Christmas trees in the street of London every January. I took advantage of this huge amount of wood which is shipped every year to the city. I investigated the finite economy of Christmas trees drawing on this local resource to create furniture from the discarded wood.
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The project is not about waste collection or recycling, but rather how people integrate with urban environments.
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Christmas trees are extremely fast growing trees, temporary farms could take roots in wasted space in the inner London.
The open farm would provide a little greenery and Christmas trees for the local community as well as an ‘extra-local’ construction timber every January.
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