Category: green walls
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Vertical Agriculture + Solar Access
It’s been a bit since I’ve posted on Vertical Agriculture – but an architecture studio I’m helping with at Portland State has a number of students pursuing food production as part of their buildings relating to urban ecology – and has me again thinking of the practicality of these building-based growth modules. While intrigued by…
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Planter Pocket Facade
An interesting project from Osaka, Japan featuring a variation on vertical green with a Hundertwasserian flair. There is a certain transparency in the system, and I was amazed that the project has been in place since the early 1990s. (via Inhabitat) :: image via InhabitatFrom Inhabitat: “Italian-born architect and artist, Gaetano Pesce designed and built…
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Packaged Vertical Garden
The ‘Garden for a not too distant future‘ is an installation that is part vertical garden, part statement about the lack of green space in cities and the preponderance of overpriced, difficult to maintain vertical walls. :: image via luzininterruptus Via luzininterruptus: ” With the installation Packaged vertical garden, we wanted to promote the preservation…
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Reforesting Cities
A great post on Urban Omnibus investigates the potential of implementation of urban reforestation blended into existing buildings in our urban areas. From author Vanessa Keith, author of the article: “Retrofitting our urban building stock to address climate change need not be limited exclusively to increasing their energy efficiency. If “one of the primary causes…
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Elements of Urban Agriculture
I had the opportunity today to see a presentation by local urban agriculture guru Marc Boucher-Colbert (the man behind the Rocket Restaurant rooftop garden here in Portland). Instead of focusing directly on rooftops, he outlined a broad version of urban agriculture through an investigation of a range of possible strategies for our cities. This is…
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EcoCity Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany’s new planned EcoCity by TecArchitecture and Arup has received a lot of attention as of late… let’s take a look::: image via WAN Wind turbines… check. Green roofs and walls… check. Water and futuristic, semi-biomorphic building forms… check. Reuse of structures… check… Multiple green rating systems… check! Looks like an eco-city… Ok, I’m…
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Local Flavor: Oregon Sustainability Center
Based in Portland, Oregon I sometimes forget the fact that what we consider everyday is often innovative in the larger global scale. My blog reaches beyond to interject many global ideas into our local work, but also to place what we are doing within a larger ecological design concept. One project worth noting is the…
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Veg.itecture Spin-Off
It’s fun to see something that seemed relatively nascent a few years back grow into a full-fledged phenomenon. The growth of vegetated architecture projects and the number of sites covering this topic has literally exploded of late, and I was fearful that the entire Landscape+Urbanism blog would be eclipsed and framed by Veg.itecture rather than…
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Re:Vision Dallas = Vertical Green
The annoucement of three winners for the Re:Vision Dallas Competition on Bustler was telling in some of the interesting forms, and the consistency of veg.itecture as a vital building element – particularly the use of roof and walls faces for environmental, aesthetic, and productive means. Check out the full array of info and pics on…
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Salad Days
Not the first version of this, but another cool living edible wall, via Core77 – for a product called Reviwall from an Italian group called ReviPlant. :: image via Core77 :: images via ReviPlant Another cool idea of this is from Green Living Technologies (GLT) which has sponsored, along with Campbells soup, a series of…