2025 Merit Award
General Design - Small Firm
Gravity Field
Jardins de Metis, Quebec, Canada
Landscape Architect:
Terrain Work
Project Team:
Client: Jardins de Metis
Photo Credit(s):
Main Photo: JC Lemay
Photos 1-2, 5, 8-11: JC Lemay
Photo 3: Diagram, TERRAIN WORK. Photo, JC Lemay
Photos 4, 7, 14: TERRAIN WORK
Photos 6, 12: Martin Bond
Photo 13: Marjelaine Sylvestre
About the Project:
Plants are extraordinarily adaptive. They have the ability to thrive in the harshest environments on earth, responding to a myriad of stimuli. Plants are also essential to human existence, providing sustenance, ecosystem services, and carbon sequestration. While plants play a key role in mitigating the effects of climate change that threaten our existence as a species, they too are also vulnerable and must adapt quickly. Gravity Field demonstrates the robust adaptation of plants in strenuous conditions. A floating cloud of 171 sunflowers are initially grown upside-down, but curve up towards the sun, defying gravity. Gravity Field is an immersive, delightful landscape and real time experiment that spotlights the powerful resilience of nature.
