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Starting from the idea of a historical botanical garden combined with the concept of protecting biodiversity and the environment and promoting education on environmental, the project develops these ideas, integrating them with a contemporary approach that brings people, nature and the landscape together through a sensory relationship and a more complex and fluid cognitive process involving the five senses, movement and moments of pause. Through analogies between nature and mathematics, a concept for the layout was developed using the Voronoi diagram. The solution plays with the proximity of the vegetation spaces: these are not separated but generate trajectories, passages and stops animated by the rhythm of the observers' bodies.
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It will be built on a public green area facing the historic 18th-century Villa Alari, allowing for a unique integration of cultural heritage and greenery. The garden will be easily accessible and adjacent to the Naviglio Martesana canal, with a well-known cycle path connecting it to Milan. The design approach is to seize the opportunities offered by the site and integrate them into an overall design that goes beyond the physical boundaries of fences, paths and buildings, expanding the significance of the project to a green system that intersects with gentle paths, roads and waterways. The Serra building, visible from the entrance to Cernusco sul Naviglio, extends over the roof of the nearby car park and provides an opportunity to give the town a new focal point for the community
Thanks to continuous observation of species behaviour, in recent years many botanical gardens have made a unique contribution to climate change research, species conservation and raising public awareness of environmental and sustainability issues. Constant attention has been paid to avoiding any kind of pollution; environmental impacts are taken into account in the choice of materials, planting and cultivation methods, and architectural choices aimed at minimising energy and management consumption. With a total area of more than 7,000 m2 available for new plantings, the permeability of the surface has been maintained through the use of draining paving for the paths within the garden.
The project plays with the proximity of the vegetation spaces, the lines separating the different areas of the Garden become paths, rest areas and observation points. There is no single way to walk through the garden, no set route or time frame: visitors can lose themselves in a rich spectrum of experiences, searching for a recurring colour, a scent, sounds, the lawn or the water. The multiple narratives arise from ever-changing sequences of a few elements, such as "Fields" and "Dots", which, in the empty spaces, generate a "connective tissue" where themes, knowledge and sensations unfold. The Fields are intended to host crops and essences, while the Dots are the ordering elements of the park, intended to host crops linked to specific themes and also freely configurable to provide shade, open up views and organise paths. Finally, the Connective Tissue represents the space that is fully accessible to visitors. The network of spaces that makes up the "connective tissue" is configured as a sequence of diverse and fluid places, endowed with a complexity given by the interaction with the surrounding Fields and Dots, with deformations to offer underground and submerged viewpoints, platforms for relaxation and observation from eccentric positions. Integrated into the connective tissue is water, an indispensable element in the story of the Garden of the Senses, generating and serving the surrounding fields.
The vegetation and urban fabric of a medieval city show similarities that reveal meanings in the footsteps of people, as in lymphatic flows. Both fabrics are the result of minimal rationality, of the search for efficiency that determines their morphology.
Founded in Milan in 2015 by architect and engineer Luca Bucci and architect Stefano Cellerino, FaseModus is a design studio whose work is based on interpreting the multiple uses of contemporary space to imagine new forms and developments, with a specific focus on the evolution and transformation of public spaces and communities. With partnerships in Europe, the US and South America, FaseModus develops projects ranging from urban planning to corporate architecture: from public spaces to workplaces; from spaces for culture and education to residential spaces. Within the studio, the green division MatLab c deals with the development of environmental sustainability, the ecology of building components and biophilic design.
