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Verde 360 – Living Walls in Mexico
Apr 14th
Living wall growth progression
Verde 360 is a Mexican company founded in 2006 that builds and maintains living walls. They create custom living walls to green up an urban environment. They’ve done some stellar work for brands including Nike and Steve Madden using felt and custom steel irrigation trays/gutters as reservoirs. A few of their projects are below:
- Arq. Jose Luis Cortez
- 12 meters square
- San Angel, Mexico
Verde 360
Verde 360 Mexico
- Steve Madden
- 12 m sq each side
- Sante Fe, Mexico
- July 2008
Steven Madden Living Wall Mexico
Two sided living wall
- Movil Module
- 6 m2 Mexico
- January 2008
Planting vertical garden designs
Vertical garden with custom stainless steel reservoir
Finished Movil Module
Constructing a Vertical Garden Patrick Blanc Style
Apr 8th
San Diego landscape designers Amelia B. Lima and Ricardo Marinho created this Patrick Blanc style vertical garden.
The location was a long, skinny yard – 40 ft by 17 ft wide. The dining room and kitchen looked right onto a block wall surrounding the property and Amelia’s goal was to create a living wall to bring a more natural look to the backyard. The result was a 260 square foot vertical garden using epiphytes and lithophytes (plants that usually grow without much soil, like on rocks)
Galvanized steel makes the frame. They’re set in place with concrete footings. Next, marine plywood and corrugated plastic are attached to the frame. Amelia then stapled on two layers of synthetic felt to the plastic and then cut slits in the first layer. The plants nestle between the layers of felt and which helps to evenly distribute the water across the wall from the drip irrigation system at the top.
Frame
PVC irrigation system at the top
Greenwall being planted
A water channel underneath the gravel pumps the water to the wall and collects the extra water to be used again later. Via Lushe
