Rainwater has been used to create an ideal micro-climate for a water garden, without wasting a drop. Aqva Garden is an ingenious system designed by ecoLogicStudio (alias Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto) in collaboration with another two young designers (Francesco Brenta and Laura Micalizzi), presented for the first time at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair.

Perhaps more innovative in terms of form rather than substance, it is the first apparatus for collecting, storing and reusing rainwater that instead of being buried underground (or disguised) is shown off in a scenic installation. The artificial garden is based on a ramified system of fibres, that carries excess water from the building’s gutters to a group of transparent sacks set on the ground or directly to the bulbs, to which is added a filtering system for purifying the water.

In practice, an area of 230 square metres can accomodate 256 bulbs and each, according to position, receives a quantity of water inversely proportional to the inclination of the fibres. Elena Sommariva

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