Mauricio Fernández wanted to be a writer. He studied philology, started working as a gardener almost by chance, and ended up discovering that a garden also tells stories, just with plants, textures, and seasons instead of words.
"No one who takes the time to watch how a leaf opens in spring can feel nature as something strange", he explains in Impact Info. With that conviction, he founded Alnus Paisajistas, a studio that designs gardens always considering the environmental, social, and economic aspects, understanding the garden as an asset that generates real value.
For Alnus, a well-designed garden is not an aesthetic expense but a statement of intentions. When a company commissions a green space, it is communicating its values to its employees, to the public, and to the city. “Every tree that casts shade over a building —Fernández reminds us— can lower the temperature by four to five degrees.”
