Forged Forest

Forged Forest explores the need to reconcile the relationship between the man-made environment and the natural world and questions whether in the future the thresholds between the two will be blurred. Towering trees sculpted from steelwork rise through the atrium, creating a vertiginous landscape evoking the accelerating sky-ward growth and increasing complexity of the urban realm.

Natasha Reid shortlisted as a finalist in an invited competition for emerging architecture practices held by Arup. She developed an experiential large-scale installation for their multi-storey atrium space, which would ignite people’s imagination and communicate the theme of what the future of the Built Environment might mean in the 21st Century