Category: green walls
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Net Zero Effect
One of the plethora of terms floating around the design-o-sphere is Net Zero Homes (aka ZEB or zero-energy building). Another fancy term for the same thing? Sort-of, but with a slightly different spin. Simply, it is a building that has a net energy usage of zero over the course of one year. Spawned by the…
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Reading List: Vertical Gardens
Arriving last week, one of many books to come in the next year focussed on green walls and vegetated architecture. Vertical Gardens, authored by Anna Lambertini with an introduction by Jacques Leenhardt and photos by Mario Ciampi. Much like the gardens themselves, the photos of projects are full of variety and almost moist to the…
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Veg.itecture: Photo Gallery
A few project photos, via the Archinect Image Gallery (a great resource of building-related images). Definitely more to come as there are a LOT of images to go through. Enjoy! :: House, 2005 – by Jan Kempenaers :: Palisades Concrete Pier House :: De Young Museum :: Nicolas G.Hayek Center — (featured previously on L+U)…
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Elements: Air
Save politics, air seems to be the issue on everyone’s mind these days. From global climate change to carbon sequestration and offsets – air quality is a significant urban landscape feature. Buildings, and landscapes (alongside appropriate technology) can be a part of the solution, in addition to being less of a part of the problem.…
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Veg.itecture: Small(er)-Scale
This Swiss RE Office Building by BRT Arkitekten in Germany (the same company that formerly owned Foster’s Gherkin Building in London) featured on this weeks eye candy… the building dates from 2001, but is stunning with an vegetated extension of the facade created via climbing vines and screen panels. I love the way there is…
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Veg.itecture: Super Sized
The next in a continual series of Vegetated Architecture, including some large scale examples from Pittsburgh, Singapore, Moscow, and Paris. From Inhabitat: “Architect Vincent Callebaut’s latest project balances public galleries, meeting rooms and gathering spaces over canals and abandoned railroad tracks in the 19th Parisian district. The prototype uses green technologies and techniques but is…
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Veg.itecture: New Additions
A visual tour of some of the latest in Vegetated Architecture. From the wonderful to the integrated to the sophmoric – the ideas are flowing and the concept is here to stay. A few recent projects: In todays readings, from Archidose, the amazing pioneer of vertical greening, Patrick Blanc is at it again, creating a…
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Vegetated Architecture
New terms, or juxtaposition of terms, continually occur in the design dialogue. Sometimes these provide language for describing something new – a technology, process or approach. Other times, this language provides a new use of terms that gives resonance for a fresh approach to something old. Terms like living buildings, civic ecology, living architecture, natural…
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Tasty Building/Landscape Fusions
I am definitely noticing the green wall/facade, vegetated architecture trend… with ASLA’s blog asking the burning question: Are green walls ‘the green roofs of 2008?’ Seems so, at least in a theoretical, paper architecture visual sense – but as mentioned prior, green facades and walls are beginning to literally take root all over. A few…
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Living Walls
A theme that will recur often, is the idea of meshing landscape and architecture, particularly related to building skin. This approach has recently been showcased with the work of Patrick Blanc – specifically related to the Musee du quai Branly in Paris which has been extensively documented elsewhere… A few recent versions: Referenced in the…