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I present you Vertical Garden which is creation of Patrick Blank. He overgrows the vertical surfaces of buildings in the most beautiful way. His Vertical Garden consists a variety of plans trailing gently up any interior or outside wall. Patrick is not just simpy putting green on the walls, he studies many ways plants adapt to extreme situations at the CNRS, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris since 1982.

Before twelve years ago Patrick worked for museums in Paris, Istanbul, Madrid, Seoul or the 21^st Century museum of contemporary art in Kanazawa. Besides covering shop interiors like Girbaud’s in Paris with moss and ferns he designed for companies like Samsung or the Hypo Vereinsbank.

He also designed for French couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier. Patrick’s ‘Robe Végétale’ was a prestigious wedding dress for Gaultier’s fashion show in 2002 that tastefully stretched its ivory tendrils around the model’s outlines.

Now the secret method how do you actually glue these plans on the wall is composed of three parts: a metal frame, a PVC layer and felt. The metal frame is hung on a wall or can be self-standing. It provides an air layer acting as a very efficient thermic and phonic isolation system. A 1cm thick PVC sheet is then riveted on the metal frame. This layer brings rigidity to the whole structure and makes it waterproof. After that comes a felt layer made of polyamide that is stapled on the PVC. This felt is corrosion-resistant and its high capillarity allows a homogeneous water distribution. The roots are now growing on this felt.

Watering is provided from the top with the tap water being supplemented with nutrients. The process of watering and fertilisation is automated. The whole weight of the ‘Vertical Garden’, including plants and metal frame, is lower than 30 kg per square meter. Thus the Vertical Garden can be implemented on any wall without any size or limitation of height.

Plants don’t need soil in any situation because the soil is merely nothing more than a mechanic support. Only water and the many minerals dissolved in it are essential to plants, together with light and carbon dioxide to conduct photosynthesis. Wherever water is available all year long as in tropical forests or in temperate mountain forests, plants can grow on rocks, tree trunks, and slopes free-of-ground.

This is the beautifull way of living!