Except that the Kew Rhizotron is a creative 'interpretation'. You go into a dark underground room and look at animated videos of worms and centipedes accompanied by scary scuttling and sucking sounds. And then you go up the treewalk, which is what you actually came to see.
The Rhizotron installation took 14 months and over 20,000 'person' hours to build, and this is what Will Jackson, director of Engineered Arts says about it:
"The root sculpture in the Rhizotron fuses two aesthetics, natural and industrial. I wanted to create the feel of a boiler room made of tree roots, imagine the pipe work that services a large hotel, providing creature comforts for the guests, we could think of trees in the same way, they are the services providers for our
planet, creating oxygen and controlling our climate, they make our planet habitable. Arne Laub, Engineered Arts’ designer with a talent for solving systematic problems, was handed the task of creating a series of parts that could realize these concepts, the finished design required 46 unique forms and 567 parts in total.
We wanted to populate this underworld with the denizens of the ground, those creatures that inhabit tree roots and live in the soil. Automata artist Matt Smith created animated wooden creatures, stag beetles, centipedes and worms to inhabit the porthole spaces within the sculpture."
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