Vertical gardening

Patrick Blanc has learned to grow in urban vertical sady.Etot amazing man - a genius. He came up with that, and so exist in nature - green walls. Only in nature they exist anywhere, and the plants they grow as rising. And Patrick Blanc has learned to build them in the cities. For his compositions do not need soil and expensive, and sometimes priceless meters above ground - and where they come from in the city center, where all have been built up? Ample that in any city there in abundance - just walls. Here, look:















Les Halles, Paris







Quai Branly Museum, Paris







Cultural Centre CaixaForum Madrid









Aix-en-Provence, France







So this bridge look to landscaping.







Fifth Avenue, New York







Bordeaux, France







Hotel in Nanterre, France







Icon Hotel at Hong Kong Polytechnic University









The metro station Avlabari, Tbilisi







Plaza of Spain, Santa Cruz de Tenerife







Plaza of Spain, Santa Cruz de Tenerife







Toulouse, France







London, UK













Trio Building in Sydney



Works by Patrick Blanc is not only the outer walls, but also the interior.







Office CapitaLand in Singapore







The waiting room at the Sydney airport







The waiting room at the Sydney airport







National Theater in Taipei, China







His compositions are unique - he is never repeated.



Patrick Blanc born June 3, 1953 in Paris. Education - a botanist working at the National Research Centre of France. He studied the mountain forests of Malaysia and Thailand, and came to the conclusion that many plants do not need soil - enough vertical support. As a result, he developed a new method of landscaping walls.

By building facade mounted metal frame with a thin polymer flooring felt with capillary structure through which flows the water with dissolved fertilizer. That it planted seeds and seedlings of plants.

One of the most important advantages of this method of gardening buildings - the absence of traditional for modern hanging gardens of trays and pots to the ground, which are mounted at the top of the walls. The weight of the vertical garden is minimized. The average thickness of the "green" wall no more than a few centimeters, and its square meter weighs less than 30 kg.







This maestro



His work can be found in many different parts of the world. But the main place of sale of original ideas of his own home has become, over time, turned into an oasis of tropical jungle, near Paris. Single storey dwelling Patrick Blanc - is both a lovely garden, a working laboratory and a unique collection of exotic plants in perfect harmony with each other. There are no internal doors, from one room to fly little bird on the floor from time to time jump Malaysian blue-green frogs, and in one of the shady corners of a large lizard lurking brought from Madagascar.

See also:
"Green" ideas in the design

Van Gogh painting of flowers grown

Coca-Cola has placed billboard from plants



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