STIGMA
Davide Cerruto and Walter Coccia of Lefty Gardens, together with the landscape architect Arianna Tomatis, competing at the 24th Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival
PROJECT SHEET
TITLE
Stigma
SUBJECT
Garden source of life
GLIMPSE
In Fabrice Moireau’s watercolor, a look at our garden.
(Thanks toDomaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire)
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Eugenio Brambilla
Diego Brambilla
Giuseppe Savino
Nicolò De Giovanni
TECHNICAL SPONSORS
CONCEPTÂ
Our project focuses on the very functioning of nature, its fundamentals: biodiversity, habitat, fertility. It is first of all a space to share with other living beings, starting with the less visible ones: insects. And the project takes its name from the tracheal opening used by insects to breathe: Stigma.
Ours is a lush forest-garden, attractive for life and efficient in every aspect – botanical associations, water saving, integrated pest management – therefore predisposed to prosper over time thanks to the circular virtuosity of the processes that regulate it. From the observation of earthworms, a symbol of soil fertility, the sinuous shapes of the walkways and spiral passages are born which introduce the visitor to an itinerary dotted with points of interest: a lake with bank vegetation, mammal dens among the bushes, birds’ nests hanging from trees, clearings and rest areas in the open greenery. Stigma, in fact, does not focus its attention only on insects, but is a “widespread” bug hotel ready to also welcome mammals and birds, because nature does not work in watertight compartments but aims for interaction and balance.
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