During the Clerkenwell Design Week the courtyard of Pardini Hall (formerly elips design) is transformed in the Hanging Vegetable Garden.

Pardini Hall wanted to show how easy is to improve a space in the city and to actually grow your own food, even if you don’t have the actual space on the floor.

Architecture can improve lifestyle starting from a very small participation, making our working/living environment appealing through the involvement of all the senses: sight with green, smell with the good fragrance of herbs and strawberries, taste with the food you can easily pick!

Pardini Hall truly believes that the quality of our surroundings has a direct influence on the quality of our lives, whether that is in the workplace, at home or in the public realm. Allied to this is the acknowledgement that architecture is generated by the needs of people – both material and spiritual – and a concern for the physical context and the culture and climate of place.

That is why we chose a vegetable garden: The Nature has always been considered a source of well-being and lift up the spirits (spiritual need) . At the same time we felt important to encourage oneself to grown our own vegetables (material need_ healthy food!). Last, but not least, to get the world greener is a must now and even the smallest space can be utilised (carbon emission help_ sustainability). Every little helps.