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Dead Garden II

The installation by Brazilian architects Vazio S/A for the International Garden Festival suggests an active corridor of dead trees and takes advantage of the process of becoming.

Dead Garden II, by Brazilian practice Vazio S/A, is an installation built for the International Garden Festival, an event held annually in Quebec, Canada that sponsors new possibilities, wild ideas, and alternative horizons for landscape design and fleeting architecture.

Following Dead Garden I, Dead Garden II suggests an active corridor made of dead trees founded nearby the Festival grounds, and takes advantage of the process of becoming. Hinting a horizontal flow, it is a wood vivarium enveloped by a vegetal nursery net that also works as a corridor where the rows of trunks catalyze the growth of mosses, lichens, and also that of the visitors’ movements. Selected among 290 entries of an international competition, Dead Garden II is still under construction and will be under process up to the next, 2014 International Garden Festival.

Dead Garden II
Landscape design
Architect: Vazio S/A