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B.Box - Green your balcony joined: Our Tower Hamlets 5 months ago
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The BalconyBox/ BBox is a simple idea based on the way we live today, in cities, in flats with little access to nature, to provide ready made boxes full of flowers and leafiness to our balconies.
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Most balconies are empty or used a storage; greening these outdoor rooms and applying a similar philosophy as a ready made meal is the origin of the BBox: all ingredients get delivered to your door - why not do the same for your balcony? Ready made boxes, ready to order, right to your door. Even though most our balconies are small they still offer a great potential to bring a little bit of nature into our homes and hearts. The BBox aims to do that in a ready - made way that still allows each of us to get our fingers dirty with a bit of planting, gardening and harvesting whilst providing a little habitat. This way we green our balconies, create places for us to sit, read and relax, places to nurture, grow and harvest and to provide something valuable for city wildlife. Our balconies then become: A place for bees A place for me A place to be All you have to do is choose your box, your pots and colours and wait for your balcony to become a loved and happy room, part of your home.
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Why it's a great idea:
This project works on may levels it improves the way our buildings look, increases our livable area, provides habitat for wildlife and supports local business. It also addresses health and well being issues by providing a little opportunity to nurture the plants through the seasons, observe them grow and flower, and provide a space to sit and read, relax and enjoy. The plant combinations follow the seasons through selective replacement planting whilst celebrating colour, smells and textures. Any balcony, small or big, can be transformed into a green oasis and having ready made boxes delivered to your door makes it easy, fast and uncomplicated but instantly changes an empty unsightly balcony into a pleasing, happy and welcoming outdoor room. It is proven that looking into 'green' improves our mental well being which these days is even more important so the BBox would help to adress mind, body and wildlife in a very simple and effective way.
Steps to get it done:
Would address overall apperance of buildings and soften the facade in the recent high density mixed use developments constructed.
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How will the money be spent?Total £166
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VolunteerPersonnel:
Name: Mareike Menzel
Date of birth: 03.08.1972
Nationality: German
Address: 4 Roach Road/ Unit 307/ Omega Works, London, E3 2PA
Contact details: mareike3872@gmail.com
Mobile: 07891545564
Education:
1979 – 1992: Gymnasium, Berlin
1993 – 1997:University of Greenwich, Degree Landscape Architecture
1997 – 2000: Kingston University, Diploma Landscape Architecture
2000 – 2002:University of Westminster, Diploma Urban Design
2006: Part 4 qualification (qualified landscape architect by professional landscape institute)
Work:
I lived and worked in Berlin, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Sydney and London where I have been living for over 20 Years. I currently work in a landscape office focusing on mixed use regeneration projects in London some of them have been built or are about to go to site.
My work focuses on creating places and spaces for people to enjoy, improving the public realm and city environment, focusing on walkable routes through healthy streets and providing surprises, activities and journeys as part of each design.
Landscape architecture is about addressing topical issues both socially and physically to increase the way we interact with our surroundings, with our neighbouthood and our environment. It is a broad profession also weaving biodiversity, climate change and society under a holistic design approach that is robust, adaptable and flexible for each of us to use and enjoy as we wish well into the future.
Currently we are delivering design proposals for a large scale residential development in East London with nature and landscape as the driving design basis for the overall concept.
These projects made me aware of the density and amount of empty balconies left behind whilst the flats are all nicely lit up and lived in. The facade is left bare and the idea of changing our mentally to see our balconies as an essential part of our homes and to demonstrate what a balcony could look, feel and add to our living experience brought the BBox - green your balcony concept into life.
Project Owner: mareike menzel The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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