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The Tecology concept, which opens up new possibilities in terms of relations between technology, ecology and the world of architecture, was developed in 2006 based on an idea by Marco Giambi and Giovanni Santi – Progetto Suk.
In order to develop and actually implement the idea, Progetto Suk decided to draw on the help of Maurizio Pacini (Pacini Nursery - 60,000 square metres of indoor greenhouses, 80 million seedlings produced each year, including 10 million species for turf) and Marco Volterrani (Head of Science at the CeRTES Sports Turf Research Centre, Pisa University; Director of the International Turf Company).
This led to the design of the “Giardino 1 a 1- un giardino/un uomo” (1-to-1 Garden – one garden/one man) in June 2006, made of bits of recycled cardboard containing portable mini-gardens designed using the "Erbavoglio” system for creating horizontal lawns. This experiment led to the perfecting of the idea of vertical turf and resulted in the creation of the first two mock-ups in 2006/2007. The aim was to create a system which was more effective performance-wise than any vertical turf so far experimented with in the field of architecture. A lawn, not a garden, whose architectural, aesthetic, botanical and ecological traits were easily adaptable to the world of architecture, building and construction sites: “6. sesto punto”, an ideal tribute to Le Corbusier's five points of new architecture. Friendship with Titi Casati, l’Arca magazine and Walter Marazzani, MGIM, led to the setting up of Tecology in Milan in 2008.
MISSION
Tecology pledges to provide the world of architectural design with eco-sustainable solutions to help improve the inhabited environment with due attention to natural resources as key materials for architecture.