Dead Garden II is an arrangement of logs built for the International Garden Festival, an event held annually in Metis, Quèbec (Canada) that sponsors new possibilities, wild ideas and other horizons for the practice of landscape design and fleeting architecture. Like Dead Garden I, DG II suggests an active corridor of dead trees, and takes advantage of the process of becoming intrinsic to every garden. Drawn as a horizontal flow, the project is a vegetable nursery enveloped by a net that dampens the light and creates a shaded environment for the trunks, catalyzing not only the movement of visitors throughout its corridors but also the growth of mosses and lichens on dead matter. The cedar trees were found in the forest within the properties of the Festival; the garden acting as a greenhouse where the logs will be gradually taken over by new mosses.
DG II was chosen in an international competition contested by 290 proposals from 23 countries. With annual visitation estimated in 200,000 visitors, the exhibition is on display every summer from June to September in Quebec.
Year: 2013/2014
Area: 200m²
Local: Métis, Quebec, Canada
Author: Carlos M Teixeira (Vazio S/A)
Materials: cedar logs, wooden structure, mosquito net
Collaborators: Daila Araújo, Leonardo Rodrigues
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