Zero-water garden created in Sharjah to show how desert plants can thrive in cities

Architecture studio Cooking Sections and engineer AKII have created an experimental landscape in Sharjah to demonstrate how desert plants could be used as an alternative to water-hungry greenery in arid cities.
Named Becoming Xerophile, the installation was built alongside the Al-Qasimiyah School as part of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial in the city of Sharjah.
Cooking Sections and AKII created it to prove the concept of creating waterless, ornamental gardens in urban areas like th