Voliera II
The elegant brick parapet facing the courtyard of this historic Piedmontese residence overlooks a sunken area of the garden protected by walls, which housed a large cage for birds and small farmyard animals. Now that the aviary has fulfilled its purpose, the project, in collaboration with Franco Giorgetta’s landscape studio, aims to create a new area where people can enjoy the garden in company, in a sheltered and very charming spot. The metal structure that held the mesh panels, worn and partly bent, is still in place and will be used to support climbing flowers. The irregular, large pebbles laid on a slope are replaced by small river pebbles in white marble and black serpentine laid in a checkerboard pattern. Although small in size, this refuge in nature identifies three different areas, a sort of entrance area to the centre, a raised area with a long bench and a third area with a grass-filled opus incertum paving, where there was already a spring and where a new cylindrical fountain has been placed, made of ceppo stone, which houses aquatic plants and creates a cool area to relax in on summer days.
