Category: green roofs
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Inhabitat: Green the Tower
For those who have not had the opportunity to visit the site Inhabitat – do so immediately. I have to remember to check it periodically to see what’s new, as it had been until recently devoid of RSS feed (and one million thank you’s for that finally). Due to my lax visitation, I often am…
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The High Road, Pt. II – NYCs High Line
A previous post revealed a significant precedent to elevated linear green spaces, and the growing number of projects that are underway around the globe. Looking at these remnants of abandoned infrastructure – not to deconstruct and start over, but as a way to retain some cultural history while modernizing to current needs – is an…
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Veg.itecture: World Tour
Vegetated Architecture seems to be a world-wide phenomenon… although there are slow-growing pools of recent US examples, the trend has evolved outside of the states as a significant part of the architectural vocabulary. A number of recent projects and terms (i.e. cybertecture) underscore this point and highlight the unprecedented customization and access to information we…
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Representing: Greening Buildings
The methods of representing vegetation on buildings is of vital importance to the acceptance and further expansion of the concept. I’d dare posit that it’s also a strategy to create excitement as well as enough realism where this doesn’t lead to disappointment when the project is build. In this vein, some representation of projects –…
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Architects Plus
The current issue of Architectural Record includes a great article on the continual blurring of the line between landscape and architecture as well as illuminating the new collaborative model of design involved in vegetated architecture. :: image via Inhabitat One project that was highlighted was the California Academy of Sciences Building by Renzo Piano, and…
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Urban Ag: Mass Planting
A February post on Urban Agriculture prompted some great comments and unlocked a few resources previously unknown to me. One included the Urban Farm mapping project Dott07. As posted by David Barrie, the project is “…a map of an ‘edible’ town in the North of England.” :: image via David Barrie Via David Barrie: “The…
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Veg.itecture: Flat + Graceful
Picking up the previous thread (and continuing to clean out some languishing archives of projects), a few additional projects that offer some formalistic solutions, via building form, size, and representation.A project shown in Jetson Green offers a view of the potential sustainability, building greening, and most importantly – spectacularly poetic form. As covered previously in…
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Veg.itecture: Curly + Folded
Ok, I promise I am running out of formalistic themes for Vegetated Architecture, really soon. For now, a couple of posts with an exposition on shape and form around some recent projects. Steven Holl’s design for a get’s a nod for interesting vegetated plane on structure, as well as the most hyperbolic name ‘Sliced Porosity…
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Take the High Road: Paris
Recently, I have run into a couple of references to a project in Paris that seems the predecessor of The High Line project in New York City. ‘La Coulee Verte’ (aka The Flowing Green) is a partially elevated railroad route through that was abandonded in 1969, and given to the City of Paris. Also called…
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Green Ribbon Design: Heping Park
Here is really compelling project by Perkins+Will for the Heping Park in Tianjin, China, provides elevated ribbons of vegetation defining the roof zones. :: image via Perkins+Will Covered in World Architecture Network, the project description is punctuated by 3 large towers, as well as parking and green spaces creating a vegetated canopy that is engaging…