Article source: BUREAU A

The Spirulina Fountain displaces the culture of landscape architecture and gardening towards contemporary issues of land and urban farming in restrained areas. The fountain constitutes a hybrid, fusing the production basins of the intense blue-green algae with contemplative Italian gardens of the 16th century. More specifically, the form and dimensions of the fountain quotes the water cascades of the Villa Aldobrandini built in 1550 in Frascati, 20 km southeast of Rome.

Image Courtesy © Dylan Perrenoud

• Architects: BUREAU A
• Project: SPIRULINE FOUNTAIN
• Location: Parc des Evaux, Confignon, Geneva, Switzerland
• Photography: Dylan Perrenoud
• Construction work: Professional construction training center (CFPC), Ivan Denkinger, Luc Tissot, and students from atelier AFP (carpentry)
• Plants (English/Latin): Spirulina – Arthrospira platensis

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