The fashion of vertical gardens is not new. Historically, vines, lianas and vines found their way all over our walls. However, today, this natural tendency of plants has become the perfect solution to beautify the walls of a building, prevent environmental pollution and, of course, do not give the Big Dreams or to have their own garden.
If you do not have space in the horizontal plane,nothing easier than changing flat ! Thanks to the pioneering work of French biologist Patrick Blanc, the gardens have won verticality. It is no longer a few climbing plants, but from real gardens with a very thoughtful design and a huge variety of plants.
One of the examples is the care of Caixa Forum Madrid (Spain), built in 2006 by Blanc itself, which in its spectacular 460 square meters, 24 meters high and one meter thick used colorful over 5000 plants of 250 different species.
Unlike facades covered naturally landscaped areas such represents sophisticated botanical works engineering in which plants support serves at the same time, the protection of the actual wall system irrigation and fertilization.
Vertical gardens in Mexico City
The Federal District has launched, since 2008, a program that aims to change the gray face of one of the most populated cities in the world with a more green and friendly through installation vertical gardens in buildings neighborhoods.
The first beneficiary was the property of Valencia in the populous area of Iztapalapa, where they were placed ten solar heaters and 700 square meters of walls that have become stunning vertical gardens. We also found a vertical garden in the Auditorium Quetzalcoatl, where previously there was only graffiti.
Green Enterprise Strategy
For his part, Fernando Ortiz Monasterio, founder and CEO of Green Vertical, a private Mexican company dedicated to the installation of vertical gardens and orchards for businesses, points out that these so-called " green strategies " improve perception that consumers have of the companies at the same time changing the urban image of the environment.
The idea is to create works that achieve a harmony between urban structure and nature. Build a Vertical Garden forrest garden costs between 500 thousand and 3 thousand 500 pesos per square meter. However, the cost depends on several factors, including the type of plants you want to plant, the Design and the complexity of the structure.
Fortunately for all of us who live in a big city, the buildings are coming to life thanks to the plants.
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