The constraint
A large enclosed courtyard overlooked from every floor, in a location with tight delivery access, on a site that never closes.
- Client
- Marriott Grosvenor Square
- Sector
- Hospitality
- Location
- Mayfair, London
- Scope
- Large-scale living façade
- Setting
- Enclosed courtyard
01 — The brief
Every window looks at it.
An enclosed hotel courtyard is seen from above as much as from the ground. Guest rooms, corridors and function rooms all overlook it, so the wall is on show from dozens of angles at once.
Access was the governing constraint. Getting material into a Mayfair courtyard, and getting maintenance teams back to it later, shaped the system choice as much as the planting did.
What we delivered
- —Large-format living façade across the courtyard elevations
- —Access and logistics planned around a live hotel
- —Zoned irrigation with monitoring
- —Maintenance regime agreed for continuous presentation
02 — Challenge, solution, result
How it was resolved.
The approach
A system light enough to install in sections through restricted access, with irrigation zoned to the courtyard’s uneven light and a maintenance plan set out before handover.
The outcome
A courtyard that reads as a garden from every window above it, maintained on a schedule that works around hotel operations.
03 — Gallery
04 — Related work
Related projects.
— — Next step
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