Ng Sek San was the principle designer of Mao Marilyn and the Big Garden. With a post grad diploma in landscape architecture and a bachelor of civil engineering, Ng Sek San presented this design to the Singapore Garden Festival. Small living wall panels were used to hold individual plants. The plants are uniform in size, [...]
February 25, 2010 - 7:33 pm
Tags: building, clean air, green wall
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A 24-square meter plant wall – more specifically a “biowall” – was built in the Robertson Building. The biowall was planted with a variety of exotic and native indoor flowering plants. Each plant has its own pocket in a special planting material (they don’t tell you the exact fabric they use). Water filters through the material [...]
February 17, 2010 - 1:47 am
Tags: clean air, vertical garden
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The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation installed a biowall in their New Jersey building. The bio-wall is a 3 story (38 ft tall by 14 ft wide) vertical garden that uses a water and air permeable growing media. That allows the air to blow right by the roots which take the VOC’s right out of the [...]
Wyatt Federal Building is planning to build a row of 250 ft. trellises along the west side of its building. SERA Architects is in charge of the remodel of the entire building and has a $135 million budget from the Federal stimulus fund. It’s a unique vertical garden that’s build on a series of 7 [...]
February 9, 2010 - 3:12 pm
Tags: building, clean air, green design
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Nedlaw Living Walls make living walls with a purpose – to clean out indoor air pollutants and allergens. It’s a different focus than standard living walls/vertical gardens. Given the correct installation of the living walls, they can actually replace traditional air filters in your home.
The leaves of the plants change the carbon dioxide into oxygen, [...]
Joan and William Feldman had a backyard with a little pond in LA, California. However.. it didn’t have enough green for their tastes so they wanted to spice it up a bit. The didn’t have a lot of room.. land prices being what they are.. so they needed a solution to get some green on [...]
Grass Mirror is a very innovative project from H2O Architects. Adding this green look in your living area would be a nice choice to create natural ambience inside the house.. plus it’s a real eye-catcher. The planter is a rectangular prism cut on an angle to make room for plants. The mirrors can be moved around to make [...]
Here’s a green idea for an office divider. It’s a living wall that’s moveable so you can slide it wherever you want in an office. This is a great youtube video with the interviewer getting solid information about how to build a living wall. You can make the vertical garden different colours depending on what [...]
Peter and Bob do a great job showing with pictures how to make a vertical garden. They built a living wall in Miami using felt and a metal frame to hold the vertical garden to the wall. Here are the pictures that help show what the construction process was like for Peter and Bob.
More:Hotspotting’s close-up [...]
These vertical gardens can be built and designed by you on a budget. These were found from http://www.lushe.com.au.
Bag and Plant
The first one is an easy-to-build vertical garden made out of a hessian bag.. or really almost any type of mesh bag.. stuffed with rockwool. Just cut some slits in the bag and the rockwool, stuff [...]
November 24, 2009 - 4:46 pm
That's a great story with great photos. Where did you hear about Kyocera's work? Thank you for posting this.
November 25, 2009 - 9:30 am
I found Kyocera when I was surfing for different takes on vertical gardens. I was looking at using vines and trellises and seeing what different people had done. I came across Kyocera's site above and heard about Green Curtains.