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Dead Garden in Fuencarral

This is a project by dosmasuno arquitectos and it is located at Madrid, Spain. There are ten images for Dead Garden in Fuencarral.

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Project images

Designer's statement

After the death of a cupresus macrocarpa lambertiana, its skeleton remained in the original place, and the different plants which used to coil around its trunk and branches now do so around its bones. The ground folds to host a woodshed and a parking slot. A revolving wall pinpoints the border between the inner garden and the dead garden.

Life is deliberate movement.

Each organism is made up of different living beings which reproduce life in different conditions in order to survive. Dead objects are those which cannot be healed. They are a passive reflection of daily events, an objective diary of others’ experiences.

Death cannot freeze movement, just the will from which it derives. This place lost its libery when it died, and it is now cursed to show how time goes by.

Details/Credits

Client: Amparo Gómez
Location: Madrid, Spain
Completion: February 2002
Design team: dosmasuno arquitectos (Ignacio Borrego, Néstor Montenegro and Lina Toro)