Flying gardens

The inner garden of a house for the elderly in Vienna was made ‘accessible’ by bringing twenty ferns up to those residents who cannot move, with mischer’traxler’s coreography.

Mischer’traxler studio and Martin Robitsch have been approached by the curators of Liquid Frontiers to develop a project for two inner courtyards of a residential care facility for the elderly in Wien.

The landscape design for the ground-level of the yards was already planned with a fern garden and a water pond. Due to the immobility of some residents and the fact that the yard is not accessible, the designers decided to bring the elements of the ground floor up to the people.

In steady motion and balanced choreography, twenty ferns slowly pass the windows of the communal rooms and fill the yards with contemplating movement. The elements arrange automatically in various patterns and formations allowing to see different arrangements throughout 


Flying Gardens, Wien
Design: mischer’traxler studio and Martin Robitsch
Curated by: Liquid Frontiers
Client: KAV Vienna, Pflegewohnhaus Donaustadt
Architects: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA)
Landscape: Rajek & Barosch
Contractor: INDAT
Video:
 trick-my-film
Completion: 2016

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