Jardim de Sequeiro / UnB - 14ᵃ Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura de São Paulo

Project implementation: Brazil
Project development: Brazil

The Dryland Garden is a temporary garden, redesigned and replanted each year. Irrigated only by rainfall, the garden germinates, grows, flowers, produces seeds, and dries out within a few months, thus adapting to the seasonality of the Cerrado.

Its flowers occupy the central space of the Central Institute of Sciences (ICC) – an iconic building of Brazilian modern architecture, designed by Oscar Niemeyer and João Filgueiras Lima (Lelé) in 1962. It extends across the building's sequential modules, measuring 730 meters long by 15 meters wide. With over 5,000 m² of planted area on a slab, the garden thrives on a thin layer of soil, without irrigation. When the rains cease, its seeds are harvested for use in the next cycle. The garden uses short-cycle, exotic flowers and native Cerrado grasses in a naturalistic composition, inspired by the Cerrado's grassland formations.

Emerging as an integration between the extension project and management of the green areas of the University of Brasília, the Jardim de Sequeiro has enabled savings and improvement of the central space of the University, while also promoting coordination with teaching, research and innovation activities.

As a temporary and experimental garden, Sequeiro can be redesigned and improved each year, enabling the continuous expansion of its initial scope and the development of its themes in diverse research and workshops, based on interactions with different disciplinary fields and academic experiences.

The Sequeiro Garden has already completed five cycles between 2020 and 2025. During this period, 142 volunteers and scholarship holders participated directly in the project, forming teams that are renewed annually. 118 themed workshops were offered (photography, watercolor, floral arrangements, seed collection, native bees, fabric dyeing, guided tours, and many others), with support from professors from UnB, other educational institutions, and the community at large. Scientific research and collaborative garden planting with ESALQ/USP and UNESP/Bauru have been essential throughout this process, as well as what took place between 2022 and 2024 at the Inhotim Institute in Minas Gerais.

The project won an award at the 5th Latin American Biennial of Landscape Architecture in 2022. More recently, it was chosen by Plano Coletivo to be part of, along with other references, its project entitled (RE)INVENTION, at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

Jardim de Sequeiro, 2020, is a project conceived and coordinated by Dr. Júlio Barêa Pastore, a professor of landscaping at the School of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Brasília. The project is carried out in partnership with the UnB City Hall, which is responsible for managing the university's green spaces. Participants include PRC staff, scholarship students, volunteers, and the general public.

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Participate in the program of debates, workshops and associated activities!

TODAY (10.10)

2:30 pm – table Risk-Free Periphery in the Context of Climate Change

4pm – table Knowing to Transform: Community Climate Risk Reduction and Adaptation Plans

6:30 pm – table Inclusive Adaptation: Nature-Based Solutions in the Peripheries

9am – Drawing Workshop: Oscar Niemeyer's Architecture in Ibirapuera Park and the Climate Challenge

IN THE NEXT DAYS (11 to 14.10)

ATTENTION the table Palmas: For 36 years, the ecological capital of Tocantins which would be held on 10/11 | 7pm was canceled.

11.10 and 12.10 | 9am – workshop Inventa(rio) Fronteiras: Playing for Multispecies Cities

11.10 | 10am – workshop Elémenterre teaching bag

11.10 | 11am – table Learning to inhabit the Anthropocene: the crisis of architecture

11.10 | 2pm – table Architecture for Learning and Civic Use

11.10 | 3pm – table Culture and Public Architecture

11.10 – 15h – workshop Elémenterre teaching bag

11.10 | 4pm – table Reconnecting with Nature & Circular Design

11.10 | 5pm – table Architecture of Belonging: Interpreting Heritage Through Place

12.10 | 10am – table Experience: Climate Refuges and Naturalized Public Spaces, with Eco-Neighborhood

12.10 | 10:30 am – table Childhoods and Climate: Climate Justice in Vulnerable Territories

12.10 | 10:30 am – Windsock Workshop with the Floating Collective

12.10 | 3pm – table Doing a lot with a little: architectures for a planet in transition with Esteban Benavides from Al Borde office

12.10 | 4:30 pm – table Earth – building a sustainable and democratic future

12.10 | 5:45 pm – table French presence at the Biennale and screening of the film AJAP – Albums of Young Architects and Landscape Architects

13.10 – activity Pantanal Action at IABsp

10/14 | 10am – table Urgent Panorama! Space as an act of permanence

14.10 | 6pm – Launch of the “Nature-Based Education” Guide

JOIN! IT'S ALL FREE!

And there's much more until October 19th!

NOTE OF CONDOLENCE

With deep sorrow, the Brazilian Institute of Architects – São Paulo Department (IABsp) mourns the passing of architect and landscape architect Kongjian Yu, a global leader in ecological urbanism, and the members of his team who accompanied him, tragically killed during the filming of a documentary. The institute is honored to have had him as a participant in the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial, where his transformative vision strengthened the dialogue between global challenges and local realities. IABsp emphasizes that Yu's contribution, which transcends borders, will remain an inspiration for generations and expresses its condolences to China, to the families of all the deceased, to his friends, and to all those impacted by his genius and dedication. Read the full note here.

Dryland Garden / UnB

Júlio Barêa Pastore + team from each cycle