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1 day agoatelier faber stacks reeds over luxembourg sandstone to revive soil porosity on old well site
Atelier Faber presents Solum, a spatial and landscaped installation set on the site of an old well in Luxembourg City that highlights the gradual recovery of soil porosity, an often-overlooked ecological process. Through a stark composition of reeds and local sandstone, the project, presented at LUGA, Luxembourg's international exhibition of urban gardens, traces how inert, compacted earth is reclaimed by living organisms, restoring the permeability needed to buffer droughts, absorb rainfall, and stabilize the urban water cycle.
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