Garden Exchange -
Pomona, Queensland

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The Pomona Garden Exchange is designed to invigorate Pomona’s rich sense of place. The concept of plant knowledge focuses firstly on providing an instinctively enticing place of congregation. This is achieved through the garden poles, which were inspired by a local creation, to offer various levels of tactile and visual comfort that evolve as the seasons progress. The workbench and interactive display, affords local input and ability to alter the space as desired. These features make the space welcoming and give the nodes tourism credentials. The sense of community encapsulated within the design, in addition to informative and playful digital interactions accessible to everyone gives the Node and memory of those visiting a sense of place. Using these architectural insertions, the future of Pomona is one of community and knowledge, with the digital display convey and teach; the garden may now become the classroom.