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East Quay, Watchet

16033_InvisibleStudios_Watchet_View01_HalfRes_Jpeg 16033_InvisibleStudios_Watchet_View02_HalfRes_JpegWe’re super pleased that our mixed use regeneration scheme for the Onion Collective CIC at East Quay, Watchet has finally been submitted for planning after 4 years development and consultation. The scheme comprises art studios, a gallery, other workspaces, a cafe and accommodation. With LT Studio landscape architects.

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Pleasure Gardens Build Up Studio

IMG_5960IMG_5471IMG_5477IMG_9843IMG_5337IMG_5461IMG_5460IMG_5360     IMG_5404Onion Collective CIC organised an extraordinary weekend in Watchet where Piers Taylor, Charley Brentnall and Marc Dix of LT Studio led a workshop to construct, with up to 50 local volunteers a timber canopy and stage with a planted landscape that marked the reclaiming of the overgrown former pleasure gardens for community use.

The structure was made from a series of dry laminated green timber hoops that were bound together with jute rope and no mechanical fixings and few tools. These were bent into shape which effectively tightened the bindings, which will grow even stronger as the rope shrinks when wet and the timber seasons. Many of the volunteers were ‘unskilled’ in the formal sense – and the project is testament to the power of a community coming together to do something for itself.

See completed project images HERE

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