Bear with me!!!!!!!
This is little more than a thought experiment at the moment, and I doubt it will ever be much more for me. But I like the idea. And I'm sure there are 1000 reasons not to do it, and I'm interested in ways to theoretically make it work.
So ... tuck the Don'ts and Can'ts and Won'ts and Shouldn'ts in your back pocket before you start to type ...
Nature has a habit of taking hold of what has been discarded.
As a society, we throw a load of **** away. Leave it long enough and, one way or another, nature will prevail. Especially plants and water.
So how about societal detritus themed hardscaping?
My first thought was car engine parts.
A cylinder head or carbs are interesting shapes. Sintered or cast metal surfaces could provide adhesion for mosses etc. Combustion chambers or manifolds could be caves for timid fish. Hose pipes are usually inert. Petrochemical residues can invariably be removed and toxic metals neutralized.
Or discarded construction materials.
How many of us have paid for slate or bogwood for hardscaping when it would be easy to source discarded bricks, rebar offcuts or formwork from just a few yards from our homes. Granted, cement is not something that will chemically benefit a tank.but there are few materials that cannot be sealed with inert coatings.
Yeah, I know this is leftfield, and bats**t crazy, but when there are innumerable Iwagami scapes, why not think outside the glass box?
This is little more than a thought experiment at the moment, and I doubt it will ever be much more for me. But I like the idea. And I'm sure there are 1000 reasons not to do it, and I'm interested in ways to theoretically make it work.
So ... tuck the Don'ts and Can'ts and Won'ts and Shouldn'ts in your back pocket before you start to type ...
Nature has a habit of taking hold of what has been discarded.
As a society, we throw a load of **** away. Leave it long enough and, one way or another, nature will prevail. Especially plants and water.
So how about societal detritus themed hardscaping?
My first thought was car engine parts.
A cylinder head or carbs are interesting shapes. Sintered or cast metal surfaces could provide adhesion for mosses etc. Combustion chambers or manifolds could be caves for timid fish. Hose pipes are usually inert. Petrochemical residues can invariably be removed and toxic metals neutralized.
Or discarded construction materials.
How many of us have paid for slate or bogwood for hardscaping when it would be easy to source discarded bricks, rebar offcuts or formwork from just a few yards from our homes. Granted, cement is not something that will chemically benefit a tank.but there are few materials that cannot be sealed with inert coatings.
Yeah, I know this is leftfield, and bats**t crazy, but when there are innumerable Iwagami scapes, why not think outside the glass box?