Winning competition entry for the International Garden Festival in 2020, Augmented Grounds is a landscape installation built using smart construction technologies based on Augmented Reality.
The project is located in the Métis garden, Prince, Québec, Canada, the design is characterized by a continuous flow of lines that follow the orography of the terrain. The project takes inspiration from traditional Sash, one of the most persistent elements of traditional Métis dresses, a recognizable icon of the Métis culture. The sash is a finger woven belt made of brightly coloured wool and plant fibres. The Augmented Grounds interprets the sash through the use of colorful ropes made of twisted fibers that remember the finger woven and the distribution of these ropes follows the curves of the terrains as the sash follows the geometry of the human body.