Coach’s Continental Gardens
Continental Gardens reimagines the role of landscape as a site of cultural preservation and public ritual. Guided by cultural research, the project examines how gardens across continents—African courtyards, Mediterranean groves, colonial botanical plots—function not only as ecosystems but as carriers of history, identity, and migration.
This concept stages a living archive, where planting design becomes a narrative structure. Through scent, shade, and sound, visitors encounter a layered experience rooted in diasporic traditions and climate-conscious futures. Informed by ethnobotanical studies, spatial anthropology, and memory work, Continental Gardens cultivates a space where cultural symbolism and environmental practice grow in tandem.
