Vertical gardens are truly sustainable, or not ?

[Thomas J. Johnson]

Yeah, for some reason people today have to over-design everything, instead of just doing what works and makes sense, which tends to be more beautiful anyway…

[enrico gaggia]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150363466650603&set=a.10150363466480603.592700.210740790602&pid=16392083&id=210740790602

[enrico gaggia]

i see these vertical garden 
http://wp.me/p13UAg-9n

What do you think?

 

 

[Tanya Olson]

Many appear not to be sustainable because they take a ecosystem (vertical jungle) and place it completely out of context. The requirement to sustain this kind of life generally aren’t (or can’t be) met in the design solution.

In most locations, they would need deeper soil profiles that are horizontally stratified, not vertical containerized soils. They need to be able to capture ambient moisture like cloud forests which would necessitate a critical mass of vertical gardens, planting (or engineering) to capture ambient moisture….what about structures that incorporate these ideas? http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pawlyn_using_nature_s_genius_in_architecture.html

So…engineered water capturing structures to support plant life – why don’t urban buildings do the same? 

Another interesting vertical garden project….http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/19/vincent-callebaut-coral-village_n_824061.html#s241149

[enrico gaggia]

Very interesting proyect

! thanks!

[Dean Hill, ASLA]

Hey everyone…I think that the biggest question is terminology.  What exactly do you mean by a vertical garden?  If you are talking “green walls” then that can be dissected into “living walls” and “green facade walls”.  This is a very important distinction as green facade walls are a trellising system that doesn’t contain planting medium, plant roots or irrigation.  So, I would ask that there be some clarification on the terminology because it can either mean something or everything!

I am not going to go into the benefits of one over the other because it wouldn’t be hard to figure out the company that I work for, but I do think that we really need to do a better job of knowing the specifics of anything that we potentially design.

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