Night Garden is a vertical landscape installation created by Rael San Fratello Architects and Architecture students at University of California Berkeley for DesCours, a free, public, week-long architecture and art event in New Orleans. Night garden was inspired by historic Spanish courtyards which were built after the fires of 1780's and 90's. The courtyards were constructed by ceramic brick and including a water fountain that was use to terminate external fires. By taking New Orleans historical architectural reference, Night Garden is a new installation of glowing porcelain tiles with in a steel structure, supporting translucent vessels designed to hold evening flowers such as primrose, brassavola, and moonflowers. Some materials and references used were wrought iron, brick, tile, placement of water, historical relevance of fire and exotic plant life of New Orleans. The construction of the tiles (plastic molds) use to slip case the porcelain were created by a three-dimensional program Modo. The porcelain mold contains a pattern created by the tooling paths tool in Modo. The tooling path also accentuated the transparent quality of the porcelain while electric kin firing gave each tile a different color finish. The translucent vessels are vacuum-formed, holding green water to support the flower while mounted on a LED light.
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