Designing a public Vital Garden




CASA FOA 2008 ¨Reflejos¨(Reflections) it´s a life garden.


It was essentially design for the search of vitality through the landscape. And the chosen elements are inviting visitors to connect with an internal state harmony.

This time the design comes alive while we celebrate water as a resource.

The diversity of the chosen plants was used as a contrast to the value of water in life. Reflections played on the idea that plants are our natural mirrors in the relationship that exists with life and water. The whole dependence we have with this recourse, as viewing that some plants adapt themselves for excess of water living in it and some have very few mm of rain per year so they hold them inside as a huge treasure.

We use a great variety of marsh plants and succulents that we can find in diversity of plants available in the Delta Ecosystem.


Reminding the importance of the medicinal properties some native plants have, or the historical value that Equisetums have as they have survived since being dinosaurs pasture, or viewing the oldest Aloe species on earth as to imagine the legacy we have to treasure in plants...
We showed that Water can become energized and we can help through oxygenating plants and flowing forms to become alive again. This as a real possibility of a more hopeful future with clean, clear and full of vitality water in rivers, lakes and seas.

While developing these project we have learned that water have memory and can recall colors, sounds and minerals while being rest orated..
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Reflejos was not built in a day...


We built Reflections in an artificially created space made for the occasion. Using sand hills and lows for water ponds similar to the Delta landscape, in the intent to recreate these diverse ecosystems.


We used Waterlilies, Thalias, Typhas and Equisetum for the wetlands. We also show native plants as Senecio bonaeriensis in a completely different way, showing the beauty of their shapes while flowering.