Inspired and informed by ornithological derives with Peter Holden, 51% Studios’ Nestworks are ‘assisted readymades’ in the form of blocks, boughs & bushes, attractive to the urban birds of Bankside.
Inspired by Witherford Watson Mann’s Strategic framework for the Bankside Urban Forest, which likens streets and pocket parks to the rides, streams and clearings found in a forest, Nestworks have been designed primarily for the birds of the forest we share our cities with: blue tits, great tits, starlings, blackbirds, robins and wrens.
The first prototypes were shown in the Union Street Urban Orchard during the 2010 London Festival of Architecture and scores have been permanently located across the wider Bankside area. The project is site specific, responsive and provocative.