Architectural Grafts | Carlos Teixeira
Model/Sculpture Belo Horizonte / Brazil
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“Architectural Grafts” is the garden as becoming; as a contradictory process where trees are pierced by an artificial element – a “prosthesis” – to, as time goes time, incorporate this agression into its trunk.
Awarded third place in a competition for built landscape design in Austria (Private Plots 2008), the jury thus (weirdly) considered the project: “Though an ethical understanding of plant treatment is irritating at first, the project communicates a new vocabulary for the investigation of gardens. The ideas are both innovative and controversial, and embody great poetry. A pink curtain instead of a hedge sets new accents; it plays on the contrast between natural and unnatural elements.”
Photos: Carlos Teixeira, Eduardo Eckenfels, João Berardo
Author(s):
Carlos M Teixeira
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“Architectural Grafts” is the garden as becoming; as a contradictory process where trees are pierced by an artificial element – a “prosthesis” – to, as time goes time, incorporate this agression into its trunk. Awarded third place in a competition for built landscape design in Austria (Private Plots 2008), the jury thus (weirdly) considered the project: “Though an ethical understanding of plant treatment is irritating at first, the project communicates...
- Client Vazio SA
- Status Completed works
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