Openfabric

WE ARE Openfabric is a young Landscape Architecture and Urban Design practice based in Rotterdam (the Netherlands), founded in 2011 by Francesco Garofalo. It is currently engaging in various countries such as Netherlands, Albania, Italy, China, Colombia and Peru. Responding to the large variety of possibilities that the intersection of city, society and nature creates, […]

A historic landscape as contemporary infrastructure The Park of the Reggia di Rivalta, inaugurated in June 2025, marks the transformation of a historic site into a new ecological and cultural infrastructure. The project emerges from a place rich in layers — where stories developed over time come back to life: from an 18th-century Este garden […]

Het Breed is a modernist neighbourhood defined by rational residential blocks, 5 stories with ‘streets in the sky’ in Amsterdam North designed by the architect Frans Van Gool in 1963. The landscape design, which succeeded Van Gool’s plan in 1969, was inspired by modernist principles and is characterised by an extensive grid of plane trees […]

Play is about finding ones place in the world and making sense of that world. We have created a plan that seeks to juxtapose two different worlds. The man made and the natural. The plan has an urban exterior and a wild natural interior, each space contains a different type of play. The formal exterior […]