When you go into the St Horto, you are immersed in a dynamic space characterized by a sequence of solid and empty triangulations that provides mainly educational functions. St Horto represents to Maker Faire Rome an explosion of technology, carpentry and advanced design techniques.
Cultivation areas, sonic harps, dining seating and an interactive lighting system alternate within 31 triangular tanks .
Furthermore, a study on 93 nodes allows the project to have different triangulations that increase, in this way, its own technical complexity.
Anyway the melody reveal itself just through the human interaction. Sonic harps, provided with sensors that can detect the touch, are installed in the garden. The same sensors are also attached on some vegetables.
If someone touch plant racks, harps or vegetables that will produce notes allowing to improvise music. By touching once any plant racks, harps or vegetables in a few seconds the garden goes in “resonance” and plays the melody without any manipulation.
The St Horto project combines 4 strictly connected factors: functionality, aesthetics, production and teaching. Production must be the cornerstone when one want to design the layout, so that the useful surface for the cultivation changes according to its contexts configuration.
The cultivation and the design of spaces, which are parted among themselves, appear both from an ergonomic perspective (height and depth suitable for cultivation operations) and at an educational/popular level because they are drawn up for kids.
St Horto, Maker Faire Rome 2013
OFL Architecture + Federico Giacomarra
Area: 140 sqm