About the garden – Medium garden
This garden, inspired by and featuring the new Citroën Ami, is designed for downsizers and highlights how our needs evolve in tune with our lifestyles and life stages. Like the cars we drive, we may need smaller, more accessible gardens that are easier to manage.
The design underscores, however, that when it comes to downsizing there is no need for compromise; you can have it all – be that in a car or a garden. It demonstrates how even in a relatively small space, it is possible to enhance comfort, improve wellbeing, encourage mobility and social interactions, and increase sustainability.
This is illustrated through the accessible footpath which links multiple seating areas – from the covered pergola with timber organic bench, to the dining area, outdoor kitchen, and sun-trapping oval patio. Brick green walls and raised planters are vertically accessible and feature lush, easy to maintain planting that provides an everlasting holiday feel to the space.
About the designer
Louise Checa is a French landscape architect and a chartered member of the Irish Landscape Institute. She holds a Masters from the INSA-ENSNP in Blois, France and has worked around the world, designing public spaces and private gardens.
Louise moved to Ireland in 2017 and worked with Mitchell+Associates and Alan Rudden before branching out on her own to start her own business, LCLA, in 2023. In 2020, she was involved at the International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire, France. Her first Bord Bia Bloom show garden, A Space for Possibilities: The Modular Container Garden, won a silver-gilt medal in 2024.
About the Sponsor
Since 1919, Citroën set out to build popular, affordable and innovative cars “For everyone, but like no one”. They are famed for comfort and audacious, daring design, but inspired by the most important element of all: you and your wellbeing.
Designer Information
Email: lc.landscapearchitecture@gmail.com
Website: https://linktr.ee/lcla_landscape
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