Concept & Project di Rafael Prugger e Keita Daniel Suzuki
Sponsor: Vivai Graziella (Roma), audio Qubeo (Milano)
Coabitare è un’azione che richiede sempre più coraggio e che implica la condivisione dello stesso spazio e il respiro della stessa aria contemporaneamente o in alternanza. Le piante, che sono state tradizionalmente relegate fuori dagli ambienti interni abitati e collocate in parchi, giardini e balconi, vanno recuperate per coabitare insieme a noi gli spazi domestici, lavorativi e di svago dove passiamo il 90% del nostro tempo.
Dobbiamo dunque imparare a elaborare non-giardini dove convertire ogni spazio chiuso interno in una quotidiana coabitazione con i vegetali applicando conoscenze di botanica, di tecnologia e di design. Abbellire con piante gli spazi interni serve per rendere gli edifici attraenti, rilassanti e salutari. In questo modo si sincronizza il respiro* delle piante con quello dell’uomo in uno scambio reciproco di anidride carbonica e ossigeno.
Il progetto Coabitare intende essere il Manifesto del non-giardino. Il volume interno del pergolato rappresenta lo spazio abitato dove trascorriamo il nostro tempo. Questo ambito interno privato, storicamente distinto dallo spazio esterno in cui imperversa la natura, è popolato da una costellazione di piante fluttuanti a celebrare la coabitazione.
Coabitare con le piante spazi interni diventa dunque una nuova sfida per tutti noi, consci di essere pionieri, tanto visionaria nella sua grandezza quanto lungimirante nel momento in cui trasferisce le proprietà omeostatiche dell’ecosistema macro verso un livello indoor micro, a riprova della costruzione frattale del mondo biologico.
* Il riferimento al “respiro” delle piante è una metafora poetica che si riferisce ovviamente ai processi metabolici di respirazione cellulare e fotosintesi.
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Cohabitation is an action that requires more and more courage and involves simultaneously or alternately sharing the same space and breathing the same air. Plants that have traditionally been relegated outside the inhabited interiors and placed in parks, gardens and balconies, must be recovered to co-exist with us the domestic, work and leisure spaces where we spend 90% of our time.
We must therefore learn to elaborate non-gardens where to convert any interior space into a daily cohabitation with plants by applying knowledge of botany, technology and design. Beautifying interior spaces with plants serves to make buildings attractive, relaxing and healthy. In this way the breath* of the plants is synchronized with that of humans in a mutual exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen.
The Coabitare project intends to be the Manifesto of the non-garden. The internal volume of the arbor represents the inhabited space where we spend our time. This private internal area, historically distinct from the external space in which nature rages, is populated by a constellation of floating plants to celebrate cohabitation.
Living together with indoor plants thus becomes a new challenge for all of us, aware of being pioneers, as visionary in its greatness as it is far-sighted, in the moment in which it transfers the homeostatic properties of the macro ecosystem towards a micro indoor level, as a proof of the fractal construction of the biological world.
* The reference to the "breath" of plants is a poetic metaphor that obviously refers to the metabolic processes of cellular respiration and photosynthesis.
We must therefore learn to elaborate non-gardens where to convert any interior space into a daily cohabitation with plants by applying knowledge of botany, technology and design. Beautifying interior spaces with plants serves to make buildings attractive, relaxing and healthy. In this way the breath* of the plants is synchronized with that of humans in a mutual exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen.
The Coabitare project intends to be the Manifesto of the non-garden. The internal volume of the arbor represents the inhabited space where we spend our time. This private internal area, historically distinct from the external space in which nature rages, is populated by a constellation of floating plants to celebrate cohabitation.
Living together with indoor plants thus becomes a new challenge for all of us, aware of being pioneers, as visionary in its greatness as it is far-sighted, in the moment in which it transfers the homeostatic properties of the macro ecosystem towards a micro indoor level, as a proof of the fractal construction of the biological world.
* The reference to the "breath" of plants is a poetic metaphor that obviously refers to the metabolic processes of cellular respiration and photosynthesis.