Brewery Garden

Bologna, Italy

2016

Collaboration with Jack Hawthorne

Arranged as a landscape of revelatory objects, the scene is laid with a circumference of fabric. Visitors encounter and are orientated by the radial curtain, which signifies the cellar’s transformation from a space of production to one of consumption; from work to pleasure. An adjoining shed structure, whose dimensions are borrowed from the existing, contains a laboratory as a place to observe the brewing process.

The garden is entered via a paved terrace, where a table intermingled with planting becomes apparent. This modest and familiar furnishing for congregation is re-imagined at the scale of the Renaissance giardini and initiates ancient customs. A pavilion envisaged as a ruin is discovered beyond the formal lawn’s planted perimeter and implies a territory for gathering, deeply immersed in the fictive setting beneath a moonlit sky.

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