a bit of green

Searching for vertical garden examples, I stumbled upon those plans for a free standing hydroponic plant wall.

It’s a proposal for a botanical garden or a public space, that consists of three large curved walls, free standing, with over than 11.000 plants on the sides of the walls. The plans were made by Peter Kastan, the co-writer of the blog Jungle Walls. The design is colorful, a mix of digital and traditional-like media. Enjoy!

Here’s a very nice project I stumbled upon, called Creating a Greener House. It’s about the restoration of a 1928 house where great attention was given to energy efficiency. The site contains details about insulation, energy efficient heating and cooling and ventilation. A heat reclamation device is also installed in the form of a shower heat recovery mechanism. Measurements of the actual energy savings have also been made.

Package vertical garden installation.

The “Garden for a not too distant future” is an installation that is part vertical garden, part criticism about the lack of green space in cities and the growing hype of overpriced, difficult to maintain vertical walls. The installation consists of 110 transparent food packaging containers inside which were put leaves, branches found in the trees in the area and lights.

Recycling materials is one of the most important things one can do for the environment. That’s exactly the challenge Rural Studio took. Rural studio is an undergraduate program of the School of Architecture at Auburn University that forms a design-build architecture studio aiming to help poor communities of the School’s area. Sponsored by Interface, the world’s largest manufacturer of carpet tiles, they used worn carpet tiles in the construction of a house for a family in Alabama, now known as Lucy/Carpet  House.