Giant Pink Pineapple

STUDIO MORISON founders Heather Peak and Ivan Morison have worked together as an artist duo, under the name Heather and Ivan Morison, since 2003, establishing an ambitious collaborative practice that transcends the divisions between art, architecture and theater. STUDIO MORISON facilitates their practice and the projects that flow from it.

Artists Heather and Ivan Morison designed a Giant Pink Pineapple to attract visitors to fundraiser for restoration of Berrington Hall's walled garden.  The construction called Look! Look! Look! is enclosed within a walled garden, designed by Georgian landscape designer Lancelot 'Capability'
Brown.  The duo created a contemporary version of the 'eye-catchers' featured in 18th-19th-century landscaping.   

The duo's idea was to create a pavilion similar to Georgian tented summer garden structures. Heather and Ivan Morison wanted to create a contemporary focus within the gardens time capsule, where old meets new harmoniously in one space.  A place where possible future activities and events could be held, tried, and tested.   The duo took something as simple as a rectangle of paper and folded it in such a way as to give it structural stability, sculptural form and a  sense of shelter that was origami in form.  The Giant Pink Pineapple whimsical and frivolous design chimes in playfully with its Georgian surroundings.  

The Giant Pineapple's metal foundation and timber structure is encased in a pink shell. The  structures pink finish is achieved from a white waft and a red weave which stands out against its green surroundings, and is made from a coated fiberglass fabric engineered by UK company Mermet.  The structure is made of 90 sections and assembled like a jigsaw, with the fabric then pulled over and fixed to each rhomboid and assembled on site in the walled garden. The special woven fabric is semi-translucent, allowing light to shine through to the space inside. Taking six months to construct, the Giant Pink Pineapple is able to withstand all weathers. 

𝒟𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓃𝒾𝓆𝓊𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝓇𝒶 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓃 𝑒𝓃𝓋𝒾𝓇𝑜𝓃𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝓃𝑜𝓋𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝒾𝑔𝓃𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒸𝓇𝒶𝒻𝓉𝓈𝓂𝑒𝓃 𝓊𝓃𝒾𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝒾𝑔𝓃𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝒷𝒿𝑒𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝟤𝟣𝓈𝓉 𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓎.