Collaborators Domenica Mistretta, Armando Grech, Giulia Camerata, Simone Tulumello

Structural Engineering Santo Mineo

Client Comune di Bagheria

Works Management Angelo Fazio

Cost € 1,310,000

Area 3400.0 sqm

Project Year 2009-2012

Photographs Luca Bullaro

The Gardens are located in the core of Bagheria, near Palermo, a few meters from the entrances to Villa Palagonia, Villa Trabia and Villa Valguarnera.

The project includes the streets surrounding the gardens, the public car-park system and the pavements.

The layout of the project is based on a study of pedestrian flows and on the desire to create a network of routes winding around the existing tall trees. 

Some larger spaces at the busiest junctions have been turned into stopping places and feature ample seating and a pool of water.

The zones adjacent to car parks are paved with grey Billiemi stone; the paving inside the gardens is grey river pebbles, typical of local building tradition.

The traditional paving system is reinterpreted with local materials and colors, but introducing new patterns and divisions.

The retaining walls around the green spaces are developed to form large seats in concrete, clad with 5cm-thick slabs of travertine, beneath which are the lighing system.

(Photographs by Luca Bullaro, Architect Ph.D.)