Category: green roofs
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Ground to Sky Connection
The idea and concept of connecting landscape from ground to sky (from terra firma to veg.itecture, if you will)- offers some great possibilities in the integration of site and building. This offers access to open space (with the obvious safety precautions) as well as the potential for aesthetic opportunities, and habitat linkages. And similarly to…
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Ballard Library – Seattle
Recently, I stumbled upon a regional blog Pacific Northwest Regional Architecture, which, upon perusal, had a couple of pics of what I think is one of the finest examples of vegetated rooftops anywhere — The Ballard Library in Seattle, by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. A few photos, that pretty much speak for themselves… :: images via…
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Veg.itecture #36
Vegetated Architecture for the week… First a link, via I (heart) Public Space – check out a tour of South Bronx green roof projects – with some interesting examples of rooftop vegetation if you are in the vicinity. Not on the tour, but in the area, is the fantastic, this one has been shown before,…
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Olympic Topiary Gone Wild
It’s not a secret that I’m a big fan and proponent of vegetation occupying the vertical spaces in our lives. Perhaps it’s the ubiquitousness of the natural surroundings, but the jarring use of landscape that confronts us the way great architectural materials does – makes my day. On the other hand, perhaps this can be…
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Veg.itecture #35
Sunday seems to be a prime time for summarizing the weeks Veg.itectural creations… as an aside, I had the opportunity to make a presentationon Veg.itecture to a diverse group of participants as part of the Summer Sustainability Series, which was a great success the past week… and it’s true – people respond to the concept…
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Fusionopolis by Ken Yeang
Well, it’s not a secret that I am an admirer of Ken Yeang, and his unique brand of Bioclimatic Architecture – mostly because of its reliance on multiple tenets of the Veg.itecture concept: 1) use of vegetation for environmental systems; 2) use of vertical and horizontal surfaces; and the mixing of these concepts for aesthetic…
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Veg.itecture #34
Time for another installment… a good amount of new projects, both interior and exterior vegetation. The first, shown a while back in Veg.itecture #31 has gotten a lot of press of late (and some new images) – under the moniker Xeritown. Sounds kind of dry…? :: images via Xeritown A little bit of greenery atop…
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Sky Farm Replay
It’s interesting to see how trends seem to hone in on one person that becomes the locus of most of the attention around a subject. Patrick Blanc and vertical gardens, Fritz Haeg with the ‘revolutionary’ idea of tearing up the lawn and planting vegetables, Michale Pollan and well, everything related to food – and now…
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Vancouver Olympic Village
Following up on a post regarding the recent article that featured the work of PWL Partnership, some more in-depth coverage of the work surrounding the Southeast False Creek Olympic Village for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. Beyond ‘green’ as a strategy, this site is literally green with rooftops and open space around a dense…
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Veg.itecture #33
Clearing the files of backed up projects (to make way for the new, of course)… a brief, in text, and long, in photos, version of Veg.itecture… it’s definitely got variety, although you can see the disparity between built and representative projects… A colorful green roof atop ECOSpace, in Dunfermline, United Kingdom, by RMJM (now about…