Still Alive! - Aglié
photos : yann Monel
Today, we donnot have other option than changing our attitude and habit in building cities. Our of cities waste should be considered as resources in contemporary city development.
Still alive proposes to present an aesthetic garden, using only materials from urban demolition. Those inert waste from city constitutes a living rock garden, recolonized, “still alive” that shows strengthness and resiliency of natural dynamics which reclaims its rights over what the human constructs and rejects.
Materials from city design a contemporary rockery where the richness of poor soils is expressed through an adapted pionneer plant collection. Still alive, as a new masterpiece of the romantic park, is located in the main historic park perspective of Aglié Castell, in Torino Councill.
The garden is made up of two circles:
- rockery ;
- meadow.
Rockery:
The rockery is installed on the mineral part, above the Fiumi fountain. Made with inert waste from demolition, this new kind of rocks form large mineral borders circle that contains the planted garden. This waste, arranged and sorted, remind ruins from romantic gardens, like some existing others in the park. This planted garden is mainly composed of pioneer plants from dry environments.
This rockery garden emphasize diversity and vegetation layers which become biotops in a living garden.
Meadow:
The historic park main perspective is regulary mowed. Still Alive proposes to highlight meadows life in stopping mowing. Thus large left mown circle shows meadow flowering and its essential role in the ecological balance in open space for biodiversity