Saturday 30th April to Monday 30th May 2016, 10am to 6pm.
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
my latest excursion to keep up with the by now totally bewildering array of events that constitute the Festival of Architecture was to the Ideal Hut Show at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. This is a couple of rows, totalling eighteen huts. A few themes recur, there are various huts that you can look inside, kaleidoscope style, a negative space absence of hut, an expanded hut, many decorated huts. Unfortunately jamming the huts together in two neat rows does detract from their impact. Had they been spaced out around a larger area they would have carried more impact.
It would also appear that these are conceptual pieces, someone somewhere has drawn a plan, and someone else has constructed the finished item. This runs contrary to the usual principles of shed as man made man-cave, and none of these really seem to function as sheds. Overall worth a look and a ponder, but likely to be of more interest to architecture buffs than the average man in the street.
The Botanic Gardens are always worth a look, with plenty to see, so worth incorporating a look at these huts into a trip on a fine day. If you head towards the glasshouses, and then towards the big pond then you should spot them quite easily.
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