Landscape Architect Vertical Garden

Landscape Architect Vertical Garden

Istanbul is a crowded city in Turkey that doesn’t have a lot of green space. There’s not a lot of room for landscape architects to build anything green in the downtown core. Due to the crowded space, room to garden horizontally is hard to find which means the gardens you do see are often pricey.

Landscape architecture company Botanic Garden in Istanbul began working on the Gizia Showroom. It’s a new building of one of the leading international textile companies in Turkey. The building is located in an old business area of Istanbul where it’s very crowded. Without a space for a normal garden, both the owner and the architect team got creative and decided to create the first outdoor vertical garden installation in all of Turkey.

There is a small outdoor space at the top of the building. It’s completely surrounded by high walls which means there’s no view of the city from there. The garden is a way for the eye to catch some green space while not taking up a lot of room in the small courtyard.

The living wall is 3.5m high and 6.5m wide. Steel was used to stabilize the structure with PVC sheets attached to that and then a fabric covered the PVC sheets.  Pockets in the fabric were created which were then filled with perlite.

The plants in the living wall don’t need soil to provide the nutrients and support. The plants and their bare roots are stuffed into the perlite-filled pockets. The irrigation system pumps liquid soluble nutrients and water up to the top of the garden where it’s distributed across the porous fabric and perlite.

The green wall is covered by a large blue sheet of a stucco net. It gives a bright background to the plants and reinforces the contrast between nature and the concrete jungle; with nature winning! It also helps the fabric stay together as, in this case, the fabric used is organic and it may eventually start to rot. The growth of the plants will eventually cover the blue sheet to make way to a purely green wall.

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