The use of water in ancient villas and Medicean residences, and its relationship with otium, inspired the landscape project that intends to give a contemporary, experiential and synaesthetic interpretation of the element that gives life, contributing to the achievement of wellbeing of body and mind for the guest.

From a compositional point of view, the garden design recalls the ‘transparent form’ of Villa Adriana (Caliari 2012. Tractatus logico sintattico. La forma trasparente di villa Adriana), in which the water element plays a generative role in the form, the subject of study and reinterpretation by architects and landscape architects who drew on its morphological wunderkammer for centuries.

The polycentric radial hypotatic composition of Hadrian’s Villa, a paradigm of timeless water architecture, is here superimposed on the previous stratification, becoming the regulating principle of the contemporary layer landscape, in which water in its various declinations plays a founding role, creating new places and evoking situations or spaces that are no longer visible.

The bold idea of a bio-pool was born as an alternative but also as a source of natural biodiversity and an answer to the reduction of heat islands in the area, in a rural environment, as a water resource for fire-fighting and as a place of enjoyment for all. The bio-pool has many ecological and landscape qualities and advantages over any other hydraulic infrastructure intervention: it is an ornamental freshwater basin in which to bathe safely. One immerses oneself in a natural ecosystem perfectly integrated into the surrounding landscape enriched by continuous flowering throughout the season.