Avanade Intelligent Garden

Studio Weave - in collaboration with Tom Massey Studio and Sebastian Cox - designed an experimental urban garden featuring a ‘shed’. The garden brings together forest garden-inspired planting, handcrafted natural materials, and cutting-edge artificial intelligence, which monitors urban trees - demonstrating how digital tools can complement human care and ecological design. The Garden Shed typology provides gardeners with a base for respite – here it also offers a space to review monitored data, which becomes another gardening tool in the shed.

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The mycelium-clad shed defines the garden’s perimeter edge and features: a table area for group workshops; a kitchenette; and a ‘mushroom parlour’, where the damp environment demonstrates the conditions in which fruiting bodies form on mycelial networks.

The architecture emerges from the source materials – primarily locally felled Ash and mycelium grown using agricultural waste. The Ash is woven for both structural elements and internal linings, visually referencing traditional craft processes, whilst the fluted form plays with light, and heightens the expression of the mycelium texture.

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