Agroscope Landscape

The landscape design for the new Agroscope building is conceived as a link between the buildings with their shapes and extensions and the characteristics of the natural and the anthropized landscapes.
Textures, objects, and nature establish a new relationship with the people increasing the experience of the working time life and giving a bold image to this important new building.
To achieve this, we proceeded  through three Actions/Tools:
- Nature as shape: trees, in mass shape placed around the buildings, with a “casual alignment" or placed according to natural patterns.
- Secret gardens: small landscape frames in strong relationship with the architecture.
-Topography as texture: the shrubs and plants shape became a big art space visible from the ground level and from the windows facing outside, looking like a large fragmented area inspired by the image and the topography of the surrounding territory.
The landscape design reinterprets the territory appearance, its signs and its rhythms. It moves from the big scale to the small one, from the geographical one to the private one, particularly noticeable in the small court gardens. The fields design develops and becomes open garden first, and inner garden then, featuring plants which recall both the natural and the humanised landscapes.
The external area of Agroscope is the link among the building in the complex, a big distribution area characterised by several conditions: passages, stops, services, protection etc.
The design considers three different vegetation dimensions, leading to three different kinds of landscape:  from the blooming meadows, to the maple and willow woods, to the hidden scented gardens. All of them are connected by a common feature: the colour of blooms and the green nuances.

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