purefleet garden - King's lynn - UK
The Borough Council of King’s Lynn commissioned Wagon Landscaping to intervene in the heart of the historic city centre. The former unloading docks of this port city, located along the canal, were gradually converted into a car park, in the immediate vicinity of the main shopping street. The project proposes to transform ten parking spaces into a garden, restoring public access to the water’s edge.
The garden draws inspiration from the site’s port history. It evokes docks once cluttered with crates, bales and “clandestine” plants that travelled alongside goods. The landscape design stages this memory of unloading: volumes, containers and plantings come together to form a new place rooted in the site’s past.
Built in around ten days, the project is based on a simple and efficient implementation. The construction was co-produced with the city’s gardening teams, encouraging the transfer of know-how and local ownership of the project. Unpacked Garden thus demonstrates the potential for rapid and reversible transformation of car-dominated spaces into places of respite and memory, serving the everyday uses of the city centre.