Located in the mythical Old Tyburnia, near Marble Arch, London, Helter Skelter is a visionary landscape that reimagines humanity’s connection to nature in our digitized, screen-based age.
This new techno-landscape typology adopts a pop-art aesthetic. Helter Skelter is a collage of abstract sculptural features, drawing from a multitude of ancient garden traditions, including Chinese scholars’ rocks and Zen dry gravel landscapes. Fluorescent sculptural forms emerge from a sea of psychedelic patterns, flowing across the garden’s ground and walls. This is the garden as an otherworldly confection—a futuristic universe where living plants twist and intertwine with artificial counterparts. Abstract rivers, pools, forests, mountains, and jewel-like microscopic lifeforms are all reimagined in this hybrid vision of an Edenic paradise garden .
A high-tech reimagining of ancient cosmologies—lower, middle, and upper worlds—Helter Skelter presents a psychedelic vision of this new Eden. At its centre stands LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor), symbolizing the origins of all life.
At night, neon lighting transforms Helter Skelter into an iridescent dreamscape. A specially composed ambient soundscape—featuring digitally manipulated recordings of birds, insects, and amphibians—creates an electric dawn chorus, drawing passers by into a visually theatrical garden experience.
This new garden typology for 2025 fuses the artificial with the organic, reflecting our increasing separation from raw nature, yet envisioning a technologically enhanced way of experiencing and representing the natural world.
Gardens have long idealized nature, with Eden as the ultimate example. Helter Skelter extends this tradition into the digital age, blending creation myths with technology. Designed to evolve with minimal intervention, it invites visitors to explore a new kind of urban Eden.