So good! And totally unplanned, just how I like it.
Here's what memo study has to say for themselves (with some help from google translate):
A large urban garden designed by memo study, from April 30 to May 30 will be hosted in Florence, Largo Annigoni. "Spelling" is the name of the project designed by the architects Ciullini Alessandra Daniele Del Kitchen, Letizia Gensini and Niccolò Natali.
Spelling and reading the "signs" made by man in the rural landscape and urban pedestrian space is an ideal matrix for a new way of conceiving the "gaps" of contemporary cities and free of all conceptual and physical spaces maintained by the city to the countryside. This includes vases, containers, flower beds, gardens, small plots to large agricultural lands. Spelling is an urban place, a combination of minor crops, exhibitions, and gathering points where restoration of the link between nature, countryside and city can occur. It is not a traditional vegetable garden, but a widespread landscape, consistent with the evolving contemporary society.
The garden of flavors and odors ( rosemary, basil, lavender, thyme, oregano, parsley, mint, chives, lettuce, zucchini, strawberries and tomatoes) reflects a growing desire to regain possession of fabric of the city, the desire to return to nature, the desire to grow what is consumed. The vegetable garden (begonias, hydrangeas and daisies), where the flower blooms and other relations with a more sustainable way of thinking and living in the city; the orchard fruits (apricot, almond, olive and cherry trees), where we developed a new vision of public space, conceived as a human interface between town and country.
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