Estufa Fria garden in Lisboa gives shelter to a wide range of exotic plants as well as this project, named 'Phyllotaxis', which is inspired in the organic and mathematics laws followed by ferns, aloe and other species.
The aim of the follie is to connect the garden's visitors with the enviroment and nature in a different way, through different fluid and floating spaces that are created with a permeable surface that folds and goes around Estufa Fria's structure. It tries to create the effect of being 'inside a flower'
The beautiful arrangement of leaves in some plants, called phyllotaxis, obeys a number of subtle mathematical relationships. In this case, the fibonacci spiral, the same geometrical law that determine plant and animal growth, holds the red surface and allows it to colonise Estufa Fria.