Living Walls and Vertical Gardens

buildingstudio and graduates of the Tulane University School of Architecture City Center created a living wall in New Orleans Park, Louisiana

The City of New Orleans Botanical Garden highlighted how homeowners can harvest rainwater in their newly commissioned pavilion since Katrina. The building itself is 12 ft high with recycled aluminum screens and reclaimed lumber as siding.

Using vines, you could cover the structure fairly easily. You could also plant edibles such as strawberries or vegetables pretty easily with this system while creating a good looking fence. There’s a lot of function behind this design. You can see that the water drips through cone in the roof and trickles down through rocks and plants to clean the grey water. I would have liked to see the water stream from the roof to the highest part of the living fence there and stream from one planter to the next. Maybe if the water flow to the living fence was restricted to allow only a certain amount at a time to prevent the soil from washing away, and the rest was diverted to the trough they have in place at the bottom. Think that would work?

Grey water living walls

New Orleans vertical garden

Constructing rain watered plantwall

From Design Milk