BUILDING SERVICES AND SYSTEM

(III)

TOPIC:
GREEN WALLS

SUBMITTED TO:
AR. SANA ALEEM

SUBMITTED BY:
AYESHA JAVAID
1725103004
SEMESTER: VI
B-ARCH III

DATE: JUNE 30, 2020

 GREEN WALLS

Plants have served humanity since the dawn of time, supplying food, clothing, building materials
and a host of other goods. With the advent of the modern industrial city, now home to more than
half of the world’s population, planners, designers and urban advocates are once again turning to
plants – green infrastructure - as a key strategy to provide cleaner air and water, while improving
living environments, human health and mental well-being.
NOMENCLATURE
A ‘Green Wall’, also commonly referred to as a ‘Vertical Garden’, is a descriptive term that is
used to refer to all forms of vegetated wall surfaces. Green wall technologies may be divided into
two major categories:
 Green Facades
 Living Walls

GREEN FACADE
LIVING WALL

BRIEF BACKGROUND OF GREEN WALLS

The concept of green walls is an ancient one, with examples in architectural history reaching
back to the Babylonians – with the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven
ancient wonders of the world. Later, from Scandinavia to Japan, numerous civilizations used
climbing plants to cover buildings, making what is now called 'green façades'.
ENVIRONMENTAL IDEOLOGY OF GREEN WALLS:

First Green Corridor of the World

The Minhocão region has more than 100 blind façades that could house 58,000 m2 of green area.
With this number in mind, m.90º has been working since 2013 to implement the Green Corridor
of Minhocão.
About 5,000 m2 of vertical gardens have been built, improving air quality and reducing noise
pollution around this region. Formed by a sequence of vertical parks, the Green Corridor of
Minhocão is the first project of its kind in the world!

THE GREEN WALL LOCATED AT MINHOCÃO , SAO PAULO BRAZIL:

 BONFIM BUILDING
The artist Paulo Monteiro creates in his pictures delusional depths, with great formal freedom,
joining elements of diverse densities in fabrics structured by excess of pictorial layers.
For the composition of the vertical garden installed in the Bonfim Building, Paulo Monteiro
plays with the construction's margins, surpassing any usual pictorial scale of his production. He
creates through the chosen plant species, several layers, colors and textures, which refer to traces
of paint that run organically, as if the building functioned as an immense canvas inserted within
the urban landscape.
  MACKENZIE BUILDING:
The landscape artist Blanche focused on the rehabilitation of degraded or underutilized urban
spaces through the identification of community use needs and the use of sustainable technologies
that can bring improvements to environmental conditions.
Mackenzie building is the last one of the Minhocão in the direction of Consolação street,
Blanche created a great dialogue of the garden with the elevated road, so that the garden visually
relates to the emptiness of this content and the city. In order to imprint a pictorial character into
the vertical garden and generate a light symbol, he inserted a focal point in the vertical garden,
which reinforces the conduction to the emptiness, and refers to the eye of a bird that flies
eastward.

 SANTA FILOMENA BUILDING:

The Swiss-Brazilian multimedia artist Pedro Wirz was invited to create the vegetation project of
Santa Filomena building.
For the project of Santa Filomena building, Pedro Wirz based his design in his studies on
masks, exploring the universe of scowls as objects of protection and vigilance. His research
revolves around the tradition of the riverside population, who attributed mystical characteristics
to the scowls, believing that they remove bad spirits, help the boats not to sink, and attract many
fish.
  MINERVA BUILDING:
The production of the English artist Christopher Page explores abstraction and representation,
combining strategies of rigid composition with illusionist painting techniques to think of
contemporary theories of vision alongside the flows of bodies and capitals.
For Minerva building's composition, the artist worked using the same principles applied in his
painting, the sensitivity to architecture. Responding to the surroundings of the Minhocão,
Christopher Page proposed the 'Formal Garden'. Playing with the formalities of composition, his
main interest was to create a pictorial image through living species that marked the presence of
the organic in the city.

CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON THESE PROJECTS:

 São Paulo is a cement city,” says Wood. "There’s a lack of access to green space."
 Green walls were introduced to break the monotony of that cemented building and
moreover according to data collected by the city's Secretariat of Greenery and the
Environment, two-thirds of São Paulo's 32 districts don’t offer anything close to the nine
square meters of green space per person recommended by the World Health
Organization.
 Green walls lower the pollution rate.
 Green walls increase the oxygen level.
 Moreover, green is a soothing color and it activates positive energy in living being so the
addition of green walls to Minhocão activates positive energy in living beings.
Which highway can be considered for green wall installation when considering Lahore as
project site?
Considering Lahore as a site following are the locations where green walls can be built.
 Mall Road
 Jail Road
 Defense Main Boulevard
The reason behind constructing green walls at these places are same i.e.
 Monotony i.e. all buildings are of concrete
 For the reduction of pollution
 For sustainability
 For cooling effect inside the building during summers as concrete absorbs heat and
increases the building temperature.

REFERENCES:
https://criticalconcrete.com/fifty-shades-of-green/
http://m90.studio/urban-projects

https://geographical.co.uk/places/cities/item/3465-sao-paulo

https://www.curbed.com/2015/7/14/9940962/sao-paulo-elevated-park-embraces-art-while-awaiting-
its-future

http://www.csaec.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/greenscreen_Introduction-to-Green-Walls.pdf

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