Greenspotlight Eindhoven – living plants form the shade
3 January 2010
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In the Jan van Lieshoutstraat in Eindhoven (NL) – a mainly pedestrian street adjacent to a shopping mall – BYTR suggested that public space be cleared of lampposts and small planters, which were forming obstacles. The design – called the GREENSPOTLIGHT – combines these two elements, greenery and street lighting, into one integrated design: a special green public light where living plants form the shade. In the bottom of the shade, a ring of integrated planters are situated. The lights are hung from cables between the street walls. This low-key intervention raised the quality of the street from a back alley to a shopping street.
The project is part of a larger commission called ‘Greenspots Eindhoven’ in which Eindhoven municipal council has asked BYTR to look for opportunities to realise green projects in the city centre. While statistics show Eindhoven to be one of the greenest cities in the Netherlands, this is not particularly apparent walking through the city centre, which was principally built after the Second World War and comprises mainly large-scale concrete structures. In the coming years, the city will develop a series of projects in which greenery is the key element, thus trying to upgrade biodiversity in the city at the same time.
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