Giardino sonoro

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Giardino Sonoro, environmental design team, Firenze

The Giardino Sonoro is the name of a Team of Environmental Designers based in Florence (Tuscany) and that of the Sonic Garden laboratory site. Here they conduct in-house ground tests on new installations and study and develop acoustic-luminous prototypes (EEM – Expressive and Environmental Modules). Contextually composed and designed acoustic/musical, horticultural and luminous components are the primary instruments applied by the Giardino Sonoro in restructuring and transfiguring architectural and naturalistic spaces. These elements induce an extension of the ambiance’s capacity to express dynamically both public and individual symbolic contents, thus imparting an altered cognitive perspective on the Habitat. The three major areas of application intended for our installational modules –EEMs- are interior design, urban planning and landscape architecture. INTERIOR DESIGN: their criteria of planning aims to transfigure interior space rewriting the relationship between lighting, sound and ambience as the capacity, the sense and the imperiousness of material architecture are rendered dynamic and transposable. URBAN PLANNING: the application of EEMs increases habitability in the chaotic urban acoustic environment by actively directing the individual’s typically submissive perception towards sources emitting musical-formal sonic compositions, thus diminishing his exposition to the invasive urban noise. The perceived environment is hence redefined as a readable and cognitively immersive habitat. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: Through the process of adaptation of the artificial—i.e. sound, lights and other functional modules, the Giardino Sonoro, like any landscape planner past and present, aims to achieve an informative compositional hybrid of the natural environment. The aim is inhabiting immersively and expressively the natural context, exposing its internal – botanical and symbolic – constellations, writing new livable living articulations.

Towards a symbolic architecture.

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