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Vazio S/A · Porto, Portugal · 2023
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Oniric Tilandsias
Vazio S/A has built a garden folly in Arcozelo: a labyrinth of rusted rebar screens hung with silvery tillandsias.
The rusted rebar labyrinth on the lawn.
- Practice
- Vazio S/A
- Year
- 2026
- Photographer
- João Morgado
The project
The project brings together two garden traditions, clipped hedges and pergolas. The hedges become vertical planes of metal mesh, sometimes opaque and sometimes see-through, which take in the existing planting and form a labyrinth beneath a pergola.
Layers of tillandsias, a bluish bromeliad native to the Americas, hang from the rusted rebar frame in varying densities. As they grow, the walls will become fuller and wilder, and the folly more landscape than architecture.
Walls of hanging tillandsias.
Looking up through the rebar pergola.
Paths between the mesh screens.
The folly among the trees.
Tillandsias against the rusted mesh.
Credits
- Design
- Vazio S/A
- Photographer
- João Morgado
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