Building with vertical garden
Harmonia 57 by Triptyque (via Cribcandy)
The project in Harmonia Street is located in a neighborhood in the west side of São Paulo, where artistic life and creativity penetrates easily, where galleries and walls are mixed up, functioning as a stage for new expression forms.The alley in front of the building is an example – its graffiti present a concept of experimentation that flows out from the street into the construction.
Like a living body, the building breathes, sweats and modifies itself, transcending its inertia. The walls are thick and covered externally by a vegetal layer that works like the skin of the structure. This dense wall is made of an organic concrete that has pores, where several plant species grow, giving the facades a unique look.
In this great machine, where the rain and soil waters are drained, treated and reused, a complex ecosystem is formed within the local. This ecosystem is a multifunctional universe made of several interconnected machines. It’s a zone of multiplicity, where meanings and actions float between the unsaid, resulting in dynamic entities.
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Have you seen the quai Branly museum in Paris? Same concept multiplied by 100.
@1: That was exactly what I was going to say. Patrick Blanc must be the rockstar of vertical gardens, and his are much more, um, filled out and artistic.
http://gridskipper.com/61304/vertical-gardens-in-paris
Beautiful idea, but in colder climates the freeze thaw cycle would demolish porous concrete in a season.
Did anyone else get a twinge of vertigo looking at that photo?
It took me a sec to see how the stairs were oriented, and for a moment I was stuck in Escher-land.
anings and actions float between the unsaid resulting in dynamic entities transcending its inertia.
definitely an art site.
I'm a bit lost on the phrase "organic concrete".
"Like a living body, the building breathes, sweats and modifies itself"
It really superb... i ever wanted to own a house like this........ :)
Aux
I would think the way the building would modify itself is to break down. That's what weather and plants do to stony substrates, you know, break them down, even without freezing.
This looks really nifty and all, but even ivy is hell on a brick building. And just how porous is this stuff, I wonder about mold and health issues.
It's "natural", it's "green" and it's definitely bullshit.
I want it
I wouldn't call it bullshit.
It's pretty and it's interesting. But it is hard to imagine that this building will last too long with plant growth eventually crumbling it's structure.
I'm also always inclined to mention that the greenest building is the one that was never built.
There's a yoga studio a few blocks from my apartment here that has a huge garden on the facade of the building. It starts on the second story and goes up a few. It's really beautiful. Same concept, but it must be 300 square feet of solid green. I have no idea how they maintain it, though. Hmmm, perhaps I should inquire...
Cory
I also wrote about Patrick Blanc and his Vertical Gardens back in 2006 and illustrated my piece A Vertical, not of Wines but A Vertical Garden with a picture from his work in the lobby of Il Guzzini (Paris).
A firm in Scandinavia integrates plants and greenery in its projects.
Cannot remember their name.
There is also a book titled Vertical Gardens by Anna Lambertini that covers the subject.
Serge
'The French Guy from New Jersey'
integrate a columbarium.
very Escher-esque. I love it.
Yes, this is nice. Add pot.
The Caixa Forum in Madrid has a pretty impressive vertical garden,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foca71/2559786775/in/set-72157605524908232/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foca71/2560607732/in/set-72157605524908232/
Pshaw! Seems like nowadays everyone's got some kinda green wall thing going. Whatever happened to that living-grass-as-indoor-carpeting ala Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land"? Might be the only grass we could actually sit or walk on around here, what with all the fire ants...
organic concrete = mud
"It’s a zone of multiplicity, where meanings and actions float between the unsaid, resulting in dynamic entities."
That sentence is still causing me problems.
The difference between this one in Brazil and the one that Blanc did in Paris is that this one is actually using native plants (tillandsia aka airplants planted in photo above). The one in paris has pumps and filters and a whole scheme of machinery and fertilizers running behind the wall. Blanc also used tropical plants and tropical plants will not survive in Paris. Blancs living wall is a just a really expensive and high powered floral arrangement. This one in Brazil makes TOTAL sense because almost all airplants are native to Brazil and airplants will cause no structural damage to anything because they get all of their nutrients topically thru their foliage AND they require no water, just high humidity.
i am offically declaring the word 'green' as abused because when people involve their uninformed aesthetic and start preferring the more lush building (patrick blancs in Paris) over the native one that requires no water or electricity - something has gone totally wrong...at least on this stream (and NYC)