Green Walls & Roofs Movement

Are you a client, designer, or a regular citizen? No matter what, we want you to join us into our “green-movement”. Our aim is to engage YOU into this fabulous and promising shift from a polluted city into an eco-friendly space. How? Through knowledge, real data collection from green spaces, lab research, investigation, real Maths, calculations, and technology. We want to prove how much efficiency green walls and roofs have within a city. Share your knowledge, information, suggestions, ideas, and curiosities !

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#3 From Hanging Gardens to Green Walls

For some, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon remains as a mythological place built as a gift for the wife of Babylonian king in the sixth century B.C.  Its aim was to reduce the extreme hot and arid weather in ancient Babylon. The exuberant vegetation hanging with perfumes refreshed the air and gave it a luxurious and elegant view. Surprisingly, nowadays the “booming” of greening indoor and outdoor spaces is back. The notion of being close to nature and adopting environmental friendly alternatives to cool, heat and ventilate places is used again. Now green walls and roofs are grabbing scientist, architects, and environmentalist attention, not just because their “fancy decorative functionality”; also it is scientifically proved their benefits of trapping air pollutant (NO2 or PM10 ) through Photosynthesis.

Another creative, interesting, and sustainable alternative to be installed into a green wall is a microsystem inside of it. 

How…?  Through Aquaponics. What’s it?

It is a system combined by the growth of fish and plants where both are feeded by the fish waste. This alternative works if we want to plant our own vegetable of fruits. For example you can plant lettuce, tomatoes, arugula, basil, mint, common house plants, peppers, cucumbers, beans, peas, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage.

Finally, the visual impact that people are exposed everyday also counts. Studies suggest that people who remain long time indoors are affected by their surroundings being more or less productive. For example: hospital patients, office workers, children, etc. Patients can take longer time to be cured; office workers can get easily distracted (green walls can be used as barriers between each set of desks or people need nature close to them to be more efficient), and as close as a child can be from nature, as much he can learn from it, enjoy it and have a healthy childhood.

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#2 Footprint & cities

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Building in a fancy green coat - let's bring this architectural fashion to life like never before! We have to!

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#1 Is it nature taking care of us, or do we take care of a nature?

There is an inherent human inclination to connect us with the natural world. Since the birth of the planet, Mother Naturehas been the inspiration and protection of human’s being according to Kellertin his book “Biophilic design”. Nature has shown different attributes based onhuman affinities, for instance: Being a refuge for people and providing natural structures from plants and caves resulting protected dwelling places, also different climates have created a metamorphosis of land and so that humans. As a result, human beings are connected physically, physiologically and psychologically to the nature according to Edward Wilson (1984) in the “Biophilic design” book.

I believe numbers and data don’t lie, we can easily find, hear, and see in person the danger and problems that the world face. To mention some: According to NASA the global sea level rose about 17 centimeters (6.7 inches) in the last century. Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Greenland lost 150 to 250 cubic kilometers (36 to 60 cubic miles) of ice per year between 2002 and 2006, while Antarctica lost about 152 cubic kilometers (36 cubic miles) of ice between 2002 and 2005. Finally, oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top 700 meters (about 2,300 feet) of ocean showing warming of 0.302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969, and so on.

So now, the “GREEN REVOLUTION” is leading us to give in return what nature once gave us - PROTECTION - I would like to encourage everybody to pay attention what and how is our contribution for our “home” or planet. Our duties as citizens are protecting parks, cities, natural resources, rising awareness, learning, getting more knowledge of actual environment problems, etc. I still believe we all can mitigate and make a positive change.