House as a garden: a system of vertical landscaping

The facade is the calling card of any country house. On the facade judge the taste of the owner of the cottage. Beautiful facade attracts the eye and, with the right approach, becomes a real decoration of the building.

Proof of this was a three-storey house in the English town of Bury St. Edmunds, located in a protected area. Architects have turned an unremarkable building into a local landmark.





Guided by the principles of building houses in a natural style, the designers decided to sheath the walls of the house with wood and decorate them with curly plants. For this purpose, clematis and wisteria were used.





According to the developers, the combination of two plants, with different flowering duration, significantly expands the possibilities for decorating walls.





The wisteria begins to bloom in spring, and the buds of clematis decorate the walls until mid-autumn. Even after flowering is over, the shoots of ornamental curly plants, braiding the walls, create an unusual effect of a "run garden."





The technical details of this project are also interesting. The wooden facade is modular blocks hung on special brackets fixed on the walls.





Between the panels and walls left air ventilation gap.





The hanging garden system was assembled from wooden beams drawn from two boards in the form of a frame.





The beams were fastened to each other using bolts and metal plates. The frame was fixed on the remote supports.





To create the basis for climbing plants between the “frames” of the wooden frame, a stainless steel cable was pulled.





In addition, wooden blinds were placed on the windows.





The combination of wood, steel and living plants makes the house extraordinary and memorable.





Over the long period of operation of the facade, the original color of the wood treated with protective impregnations against insect pests has changed.

Designers stressed that they did not paint the tree, which eventually faded, because the aged and grayed surface looks spectacular against the background of green shoots of climbing plants. published



P.S. And remember, just changing our consumption – together we change the world!

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