ANTI-BURNOUT GARDEN

PRIVATE GARDEN
BRISTOL, UK

2025

Project status
Built
Client
Private client
Year
2025
Location
Bristol, UK

THERAPEUTIC ESCAPE

There is something freeing about working fully remotely, the illusion of a better work-life balance, the potential feeling of properly enjoying your home… But in reality, it sometimes blurs the borders between work and life, interweaving them in ways that makes it difficult to properly stop working, to really take a break, to recenter and properly care for yourself and for your home.

That is the main goal of the anti-burnout garden, offering a side-step, a moment of pause and focus. It is a place designed to let its owners see that work and life are better enjoyed when they feed each other, when they both get care and time.

The garden develops around different concepts combining into this therapeutic landscape. It is a love letter to the earth, a sensorial reset, a meditative time-freeze. It offers dreams of autonomy, nomadic sedentarity, shared happiness and keeps the bodies busy to quiet the minds.

HaPPY HUMANS
& HAPPY FAUNA

The planting concept and landscape elements have been chosen to facilitate the creation of biodiversity within the garden. Using a nature-inclusive design process, studio audal selected four ambassador species and declined their needs to create habitats within the anti-burnout garden.

The materials used for the building of the garden are from local circular providers, the logs and other biobased materials used in the garden have been harvested in the surrounding forest and the platers built by a local association.

Extra fruit trees have been offered to the neighbors, hopefully participating in the better establishment of pollinators in the neighborhood. A thorough monitoring of fauna species within the garden will allow to test their proper establishment over time.