Fondazione Biohabitat (Italy)
AquaSymphony. Discover the Sound of water
“AquaSymphony. Discover the Sound of water” is a project by Davide Vercelli and Fondazione Biohabitat together with Latifolia, Fima Caro Frattini, Battiloro Handpan and Serralunga. An immersive installation recreates the magic sounds of the most-hidden rainforests, questions a new dimension of water, also raising awareness about the importance of biodiversity, while spreading the culture of green throughout the city, which has always been the Fondazione’s mission. A show of rare and unusual tropical plants to our latitudes, design elements immersed in a background music where flowing water echoes a lush forest of Sterlizia, banana trees and Jucca. The path ends up into two wet areas: two Soffioni Melograno, rightly modified, emit heavy rain on two handpans, so creating a sound-hypnotic carpet. Disseminated along the path are the masterpieces by Zaha Hadid, Philippe Starck, Jean-Marie Massaud, Rodolfo Dordoni, and more, made with second-life materials: through a rotational moulding process, Fondazione Biohabitat creates polietilene objects (LLDPE) resistant to thermal shocks, from -35 °C to +80 °C, and atmospheric agents, impacts and U.V. rays. At the end of their life, they turn in plastic powder to infuse new life into other objects in the optic of a “virtuous circular economy”.