Following our scheme to promote biodiversity, ibsar has put into action a program that would promote the use of native trees, introducing them to the community in a sustainable landscape design approach with the help of municipalities.

 

The project started with the municipality of Bhamdoun, in creating a public garden. ibsar offered around 200 Cercis siliquastrum trees, a Lebanese native tree that is known for its colorful attractive flowers.

 

Designed by landscape designer Jana Nakhal, the garden offers a playground, a Cercis tree grove, a medicinal plant garden, a sitting area with vines (Vitis vinifera), and a water fountain. The design is a multifold project that answers the needs of the community from different age groups and social backgrounds.

 

Following the architect Bernard Tschumi's words, the garden structure offers 'regularity and fantasy, relationships and oppositions, and casual, unexpected elements that vary the scene; great order in the details, confusion, uproar, and tumult in the whole.'