Futuropia Cities — Botanica Series

About the work

Three worlds under glass. One city breathing.

Biosphera is the most generously inhabited work in the Botanica series three great transparent spheres pressed together in a composition of overlapping volumes, each one a self-contained living ecosystem visible from the outside: terraced gardens stacked at every internal level, individual trees reaching toward the curved glass ceiling, pools of green light filtered through a structural lattice that makes no distinction between the botanical and the architectural because, inside these spheres, that distinction has never existed.

A central organic trunk anchors the composition to the ground roots spreading beneath, structure rising through connecting the three volumes into a single organism that breathes through all of them simultaneously. The opening at the top of the central sphere catches light and releases humidity, the way a flower opens in the morning not for beauty but for function, because that is what living things do.

Di Nicolantonio draws the interiors of these spheres with exceptional care the watercolour green placed precisely at each inhabited level, the structural grid of the sphere surfaces rendered in the patient parallel lines of someone who understands that transparency, in drawing as in architecture, is not the absence of structure but its most demanding expression. You can see inside. That is the point. The building has nothing to hide.

This is the Botanica series at its most optimistic not architecture inspired by nature, not architecture that coexists with nature, but architecture that has become a nature of its own: enclosed, cultivated, thriving, and entirely open to view.

In the Futuropia universe, Biosphera is the great living museum of Verdania the building where every climate zone that has ever existed on the planet is preserved and made visitable, where a child can walk from desert to rainforest in twenty minutes, where the memory of every ecosystem we have lost is kept alive in the only form that still makes sense: growing.

An original drawing from the Futuropia Cities — Botanica series by artist-futurist Sébastien Di Nicolantonio.

Edition Unique original — one of a kind

Signature Hand-signed by the artist

Authentication Sold with certificate of authenticity and gallery invoice

Technique Original drawing — pen and watercolor on paper

Dimensions 29.7 × 42 cm — A3 format

Framing Unframed — framing available upon request