How living walls and green barriers could lift our moods and help tackle pollution
For city-dwellers, it's sometimes hard to make time to visit parks for exercise and relaxation.
It's within this context that the notion of walls covered in plants and shrubs could offer a bridge between the highly urbanized environment of a city center and the expansive green space of a park. The scheme has been designed by Red Squirrel Architects for PSR Agency Limited. According to the City of London, Veolia U.K. — a firm which specializes in energy, water and waste management — will supply the aluminum for the project.
Around the world, a wide range of projects to green the facades and roofs of urban buildings have been developed. These include Bosco Verticale, or Vertical Forest, a residential development of two towersIn Canada, the Vancouver Convention Centre hosts a six acre "living roof" that boasts over 400,000 "indigenous plants and grasses from 25 different plant species of the Pacific Northwest.
"One is an ivy wall, an ivy fence … wrapping all around the playground and then … inside the playground, we have certain types of conifers, we have certain types of bamboo," she explained, describing these as "feature plants that are blocking and capturing pollution."
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