#Urban GardensRacines du futur is an ephemeral garden featuring an interweaving sculptural creation, accommodating uses and encouraging lush plant growth.
The project develops around three phases: firstly, the fertile soil is restored, then roots emerge from the hillside, and finally twining plants wind their way up towards the sky. This installation speeds up time: giant roots suddenly emerge from the hillside setting out to conquer the Alzette valley. Designed to adapt to the geography of the site and shaped by the growing plant life, a wide floor will lead visitors to an extraordinary balcony overlooking the valley, creating a vast landscape sculpture. The mineral walls and floors will be colonised by voluble plants climbing up and wrapping themselves around steel sculptured forms.
Atelier eem et Paysarchitectures have been creating works of art and gardens together for over ten years. As landscape architects and visual artists, they ingeniously intertwine art and landscape, shifting from one to the other and integrating different disciplines into building and urban development. This hybridisation leads to contextual landscape sculptures that reveal the ineffable and provide a singular setting for multiple uses.
The architects, engineers, artists and landscape designers at Atelier eem et Paysarchitectures are of German, Italian and French nationalities working in Paris. In 2019, the garden of peace Le troisième train, which won the EGHN European Garden Award, transformed a clearing in the forest of Compiègne into an artistic garden. In 2023, the adventure continued with Tra ipetri, a temporary work installed on the citadel of Ajaccio and Les Cristaux, which transforms public space through design in Saint-Denis.
Steel reinforcements, wooden floor, reused asphalt ramming mix.
Pioneer plants: Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), Avalanche Clematis (Clematis «avalanche»), Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius), Common Heather (Calluna vulgaris)
Voluble plants: Common hop (Humulus lupulus), Golden hop (Humulus lupulus aureus), Clematis Armandii, Chocolate vine (Akebia quinata)