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Living Walls
Flowerbox – A Contemporary Green Wall
May 22nd
Flowerbox, a company from Quebec, Canada, has a few contemporary living wall designs. These flowerboxes are designed to hang inside your home. They’re basically small planters inside three different types of boxes. You can order cardboard – yes, cardboard – aluminum or ceramic. The reason that the cardboard works for the planters is because you still water the planters traditionally/horizantally. Just take the planter down, water it carefully into the compacted soil, then hang it back up. The planters come with 1, 3, or 4 hole versions in a variety of colours.
Flowerbox from cardboard
Flowerbox from aluminum
Flowerbox from ceramic
Living Wall in Getafe, Madrid, Spain
May 9th
Getafe is a city in the southern zone of the metropolis of Madrid, and is one of the most populated and industrialized cities in the municipality. These pictures were taken two months after planting. This living wall is on all four sides of a ventilation structure over a supermarket. Local residents had complained about the look of supermarket’s roof and they chose a living wall as the best solution to improve the roof’s aesthetics. While there’s a mini courtyard on the supermarket’s roof, the living wall is not accessible to the public.
Living Wall
Living Wall
Moss on the living wall
The challenge was building a vertical garden on all four sides of the vent. Each side had different lighting and required different plants. From Urbanarbolismo – Spanish
