Design studio Formafantasma has created a series of hollow terracotta pillars to house birds and insects, which surround a biodiverse garden in a vineyard for French champagne house Perrier-Jouët.
Located in Champagne, France, Biodiversity Island comprises cylindrical modules stacked into 74 pillars of varying heights around a 285-square-metre overgrown patch of land.
Positioned across from Perrier-Jouët's vineyard, the installation was the result of a collaboration between the champagne house and Formafantasma, who wanted to increase biodiversity in the area.
Formafantasma has created an installation in a vineyard for Perrier-Jouët
"The Biodiversity Island is a plot of land where we introduced specific kinds of vegetation to help the insects and the animals living in the area that inevitably struggle because everything is cultivated," Formafantasma co-founder Simone Farresin told Dezeen. "[It is] a little hub for insects to thrive, and also a place where scientists are monitoring what is happening in the regenerative fields that are cultivated here."
From the start of the collaboration, Formafantasma set out to design a project that went beyond aesthetic considerations and aimed to create something beneficial to the natural landscape.
Biodiversity Island was designed to attract and protect wildlife
Of the 74 ceramic pillars, 32 have holes on the exterior, leading to hollow insides. The pillars' interiors vary in design to attract different wildlife...