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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Building with vertical garden - Boing Boing
  • Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:17:29 -0400


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Building with vertical garden
Posted by Cory Doctorow, September 9, 2008 9:35 PM | permalink
Love this Brazilian building with plants (not ivy! not climbers!) covering
its walls:


The project in Harmonia Street is located in a neighborhood in the west side of São Paulo, where artistic life and creativity penetrates easily, where galleries and walls are mixed up, functioning as a stage for new expression forms.

The alley in front of the building is an example – its graffiti present a concept of experimentation that flows out from the street into the construction.

Like a living body, the building breathes, sweats and modifies itself, transcending its inertia. The walls are thick and covered externally by a vegetal layer that works like the skin of the structure. This dense wall is made of an organic concrete that has pores, where several plant species grow, giving the facades a unique look.

In this great machine, where the rain and soil waters are drained, treated and reused, a complex ecosystem is formed within the local. This ecosystem is a multifunctional universe made of several interconnected machines. It’s a zone of multiplicity, where meanings and actions float between the unsaid, resulting in dynamic entities.

Harmonia 57 by Triptyque (via Cribcandy)
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/08/31/harmonia-57-by-triptyque/#more-17249



  • [permaculture] Building with vertical garden - Boing Boing, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 09/10/2008

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