Nan.Ko Studio has been selected to participate in the AIA New Orleans Des Cours Festival in December 2009. The project, Nocturnal Topiaries is aims to look at traditional elements of landscape and urbanism and change their formal attributes to create a new synthesis of cityscape and landscape. Using the idea of the topiary, a landscape element that is so rigidly formed that is becomes almost an unnatural by its very nature. Challenging the traditional notion of the topiary, they are intended to function or behave as new types of “scape,” finding a point of meeting between the organic form of the natural landscape and the controlled form of the cityscape.  

AIA Des Cours Festival-New Orleans

Nocturnal Topiaries on NOLA.com

Nan.Ko Studio was selected for the 4th Annual Champ Libre Festival of Lively Architecture in Montpellier, France in the summer of 2009. The installation, miniatures + GIANTS is a study in the curiosity of scale and interactivity.

Festival of Lively Architecture- Montpellier, France