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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