2011 edition - Gardens of the future or the art of happy biodiversity

09. Le jardin pixélisé

published at 03/11/2017

"Le jardin pixélisé", Festival des Jardins 2011 - © E. Sander

This garden imagines the future as being in a state of continuous technical development and plays as if with coloured pixels, with nothing being better able to communicate colour than plants. This interpretation of the future fully integrates environmental protection, which has at last found a way to enter into everyone’s consciousness. Designed with environmental needs taken into consideration, this garden is sustainable, with a reduced or zero impact, uses water very sparingly and employs recovered, recycled and reused materials.

As a key element, water could not be left out, even of a garden of the future. Water represents our most precious resource and clearly deserves a central place, in the form of a pond. Water is also the source of life. Throughout its own cycle, it is a source of universal vitality. Recycled, coloured drums thus live a new life in the form of containers for aquatic plants, which in turn purify and oxygenate the water. The water is stirred and oxygenated by a rudimentary but ecological system activated by wind turbines.

DESIGNERS

Mattéo PERNIGO, architect and Claudio BENNA, landscape architect

ITALY

Matteo Pernigo was graduated in Architecture from the University IUAV of Venice in 1992 and since 1994 has been a member of the Architectural Board of the Province of Padua. He has been a professional freelance architect since 1996 and has his own architectural firm. He has been a member of the Italian Association of Landscape Architectures - AIAPP since 2002. From 2005 to 2009 he has been the President of the Triveneto Emilia-Romagna AIAPP Section. He has been a speaker in many conferences on landscape architecture. In 2006 he founded the Studio Associato PANGEA - LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE.

Claudio Benna, a 2006 graduate of the University of Padua (Italy) holds a degree in Landscape, Parks and Gardens from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. In 2008 he majored in Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Genoa, Italy and since 2009 he has been collaborating with the company PANGEA. He enrolled as a member of the Architectural Board of the Province of Vicenza in 2010 and became an associate of the AIAPP in the same year.

DESIGNERS

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