The portfolio concentrates on Paul Cooper's designs for urban spaces including out of ground multi-level and rooftop gardens. The challenge of the urban environment with its lack of ground space has persuaded Cooper to employ materials and methods of construction not traditionally associated with the garden. Never afraid to try new ways of making gardens, the works represent a response to contemporary lifestyle including 'twenty-four hour gardens' with specialist lighting and theatrical effects. Others have a narrative or light-hearted theme but all are specifically designed to the client's requirements. Paul Cooper has worked closely with architects to integrate the outdoor garden space with interior living space and to make the garden part of the architectural whole.
Show Home Garden, Wandsworth, London 2004.
(Photo: Marianne Majerus)
A design for a 1930s style house in Surrey relies on simple geometric form, texture and restrained planting. The white timber structure is intended as visual distraction to the neighbour's conifer hedge.