The second of my graduate projects was finding a way to
apply the sleekness of contemporary architecture with living wall system. Many
walls in our towns and cities can be viewed as blank, featureless canvases that
could provide excellent opportunities to create living designs. This was the
inspiration that led me to develop an exterior tile cladding system, which
controls and manipulates plant growth as a medium to create pattern. The tiles,
which sit on top of existing living wall systems, aims to create visual harmony
by allowing vegetation to better integrate into the urban environment.
Green or living walls are essentially vertical
structures that are covered with vegetation. Patrick Blanc is arguably the
founder of modern vertical gardens and credited with capturing the publics
imagination in the 1990’s. Often living walls look effective from afar but
up-close do not look sleek or well finished, my cladding aims to combine the
look of contemporary architecture when creating green walls.
The ever-increasing government and local authority
recognitions of findings, and with credible case studies from cities all over
the world to the benefits on green walls, this is an area that has huge demand
for design to re-address how the built environment can be better integrated
into the natural environment through the use of building-intergraded
vegetation. For more information and to look at other projects check out my my website.
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