Industry Intelligence Spa garden design
Integrating landscapes with inspired design Alberto Apostoli, founder of Studio Apostoli, talks about what inspires his designs and how to reference the five elements in your spa garden
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ne of the most important objectives for architects and designers when creating a spa garden is to create spaces that are perfectly integrated with the surrounding landscape. I want to create architecture that seems almost like a natural element and therefore is perfectly balanced with the outside. I’m talking about creating lightness, about creating ethereal shapes suggested by the environment. Nature is much more skilled than human beings at creating architecture – just think of a tree, a structure that the higher it gets the bigger it becomes. We 22
cannot help but take inspiration, creating shapes and volumes that are perfectly integrated with nature and that are able to give it something. This does not mean creating anthropomorphic forms, but one must commit to using a certain softness similar to that of the hills and dunes. A visual reference My greatest passion when designing outdoors is looking for the best field of view in the landscape. I need this point of reference to be able to enhance the trees as if they were sculptures – ones that know www.europeanspamagazine.com