Italian architect Benedetto Camerana and landscape designer Torino Stratosferica have created a rooftop garden called La Pista 500 with over 40,000 plants around an electric vehicle test track on the roof of the Fiat's iconic former car factory.
The public garden is located on top of the Lingotto building in Turin, a former Fiat manufacturing plant that was converted into a multi-use space by Italian architect Renzo Piano in 1994.
La Pista 500 is located on the rooftop of the modernist Lingotto building in Turin
The building, which functioned as Fiat's headquarters from 1923 and to the early 1980s, is topped with a test track and was featured in the 1969 film The Italian Job.
Camerana and Stratosferica's garden is located on the rooftop test track, which was previously used to assess all Fiat vehicles and is now being used to test Fiat's 500 Electric vehicle range. The garden is comprised of 28 green islands spread across the test track
"Because of its memory, the idea of a test track has been preserved and transformed into a contemporary one, open only to electrical vehicles," Camerana told Dezeen.
"So the silent clean cars can drive gently in between the green islands, looking for a new harmony between mobility and nature. The E-track blends in the garden."
It is host to almost 40,000 indigenous plants
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