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Spirulina Fountain
Spirulina Fountain
Geneva, Switzerland
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Spirulina Fountain
Geneva, Switzerland
Project Featured on Jan 24, 2015
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YEAR
2014
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The Spirulina Fountain moves the culture of landscape architecture and gardening toward contemporary issues of land and urban farming in restrained areas. The fountain is a hybrid fusing the production basins of the intense blue-green algae with contemplative Italian gardens of the 16th century. More specifically, the form and dimensions of the fountain mimics the water cascades of the Villa Aldobrandini built in 1550 in Frascati, 12 miles southeast of Rome.
The Spirulina alga is a nutritional plant with no equal. Usually developed and consumed as an alimentary complement, the “blue algae” — as it was anciently named — is industrially cultivated in many countries where agriculture is difficult and fertile lands are scarce. The cyanobacteria are composed of arthrospira bacteria and are one of the only vegetable protein sources containing all amino acids as well as numerous vitamins and antioxidants.
In Picturesque and Romantic culture, folly pavilions referenced natural phenomena to compose their architecture. Scales and forms were deformed, adapted freely to articulate the views of specific landscape compositions. The Spirulina Fountain, similarly, is installed in a birch forest located in a Geneva public park and is in dialogue with the context and historical references as much as it generates food. It functions both as a garden folly and a spirulina production center.
Construction work: Professional construction training center (CFPC), Ivan Denkinger, Luc Tissot, and students from atelier AFP (carpentry)
Plants (English – Latin): Spirulina – Arthrospira platensis
The Spirulina alga is a nutritional plant with no equal. Usually developed and consumed as an alimentary complement, the “blue algae” — as it was anciently named — is industrially cultivated in many countries where agriculture is difficult and fertile lands are scarce. The cyanobacteria are composed of arthrospira bacteria and are one of the only vegetable protein sources containing all amino acids as well as numerous vitamins and antioxidants.
In Picturesque and Romantic culture, folly pavilions referenced natural phenomena to compose their architecture. Scales and forms were deformed, adapted freely to articulate the views of specific landscape compositions. The Spirulina Fountain, similarly, is installed in a birch forest located in a Geneva public park and is in dialogue with the context and historical references as much as it generates food. It functions both as a garden folly and a spirulina production center.
Construction work: Professional construction training center (CFPC), Ivan Denkinger, Luc Tissot, and students from atelier AFP (carpentry)
Plants (English – Latin): Spirulina – Arthrospira platensis
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