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Benefits Of Vertical Landscaping

Posted onJuly 1, 2012

If you think that just by knowing the techniques of planting trees on buildings is going to let youhave your clients approval on your proposal; you are in for a big disappointment. One importantthing to keep in mind is that client never sees things the way an architect would. This is even

more so when you are dealing with a commercial developer. They are more interested in howyour proposal can help them generate more revenue for their company.

When presenting your green proposal to your client, you must make sure that you highlight key

elements that they want to hear. Usually, architects make the mistake of focusing on themselves

instead during presentation. They try to show off how intelligent they are and how their proposal

represents the architectural breakthrough of the time. Clients are not interested in yourachievement, they are more interested to know what you can do for them. In short, you need to

focus on THEM; not YOU.

Furthermore, when you try to propose landscaping for a project, it surely means additional cost

will be needed to make it work. As cost is always a sensitive topic from the clients perspective,you must make the extra effort to convince them that the additional cost is essential and willbenefit the project in the long term. Therefore it is very important to list down the benefits ofplanting on buildings to your client so that they may possibly accept your proposal.
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Benefits of vertical

landscaping:

If the proposal includes sky courts at high level of the building, then plants can act aswind breaker and ensuring the comfort of the residents utilizing this facility.
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Besides acting as wind breaker, plants can also play the role of sound diffusers and visualscreens to reduce sound, smell and other major distractions from the urban landscape

below. Residents will then enjoy a more serene environment of their home.

Plants can help to soften the hard architectural masses and surfaces. This can make thebuilding unique in the context of its surrounding. The client can then take pride in having

a unique iconic building. Through photosynthesis, plants absorb carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide (mainly

emitted by vehicles), and produce oxygen thereby creating a healthier and cooler

environment within the building. This translates to healthier lifestyle for the residents.

Evaporation process of plants can significantly cool down the temperature of thebuilding. Less energy is needed for air conditioning. Electrical bill of residents can be

effectively reduced.

In a city environment where there are many buildings with glass faade, heat reflectionand glare from these buildings can pose major problem to the residents. Through verticallandscaping, plants can shade these negative impact from neighboring buildings

effectively.

These major benefits highlighted will ensure a better quality and healthier lifestyle to the people

residing in the building. Once people are able to see the potential of your building to improvetheir life, they are more likely to purchase a unit from this project. Your client, the developer willenjoy a successful launch and sale for their project at the end of the day. And you will also be

celebrating as your proposal is not only accepted but you will also be recognized by the public as

a responsible and creative architect.

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How To Ensure The Success Of Landscaping

In High Rise BuildingPosted onJune 24, 2012

Planting on high rise buildings poses many challenges that wont be faced on ground levellandscaping. One needs to ensure the survival of the plant by considering the 3 major elements

that are natural lighting, irrigation and soil condition. These are the 3 fundamentals ingredients

which would ensure the healthy growth of plants on buildings. In order to achieve this aim, the
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building design has to incorporate more features to cater to these needs. Design considerations

such as natural lighting, structural loading, irrigation and drainage system have to be

meticulously planned and thought out before the building is constructed.

Natural Lighting

It is always highly recommended that there is sufficient direct sunlight to the planting as it is

energy efficient and naturally healthy for the plants growth. This should be easily achieved ifthe plants are situated at the periphery of the building. However, if there are adjacent tallbuildings nearby that might cast shadows on a particular faade of your building; the growth of

plants may be hampered in this area. In other words, the orientation of the building is of utmost

importance in capturing natural light.

If the plants are located indoors, then clear glass is recommended in order to let in maximum day

lighting into the interior of the space. Reflective or tinted glass is to be avoided in terms ofindoor landscaping. There should also be good ventilation to prevent heat from building up

indoors.

Depth of Soil

Generally a soil depth of 600mm is sufficient to sustain a tree of up to 5 meters tall. Besidesdepth, the area of the soil is also important as plants roots grow in a horizontal manner. The topsoil layer is about 400mm thick and it is here that most nutrients needed by the plants are found.

Therefore when designing for the buildings structural system, these additional requirementshave to be carefully considered.

Irrigation

Due to the high degree of exposure and limited soil depths in a planted skyscraper; irrigation

becomes more crucial than ever. Consistent supply must be made available for the continuousgrowth of plants.

Preferably the plants should be watered manually. A water supply outlet should be provided nogreater than 30 meters from the plants.

Alternatively, a gravity-fed drip system controlled by stop-cocks can also be used with sprinkler

heads installed inside the planter boxes to feed water and fertilizers to the plants at designated

times throughout the day.

Drainage System

Once there is a watering system in place, you then have to think about an efficient drainage

system to drain away excess water from irrigation as well as rain. Ideally there should have 2

floor traps in the planter box; one at the bottom and one on top for draining over flow water.Without proper drainage system, the excess water may travel into the adjacent rooms and create

more problems indoors. The piping routes that carry the drained water will be quite extensive if


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you have large areas of landscaping in the building. To avoid disturbing the aesthetic quality of

the building, this piping system has to be hidden by means of plaster ceiling or box-up pillars. It

is essential that these elements are included in the architectural drawings before going for tenderin order to prevent any additional cost that may arise in the future.


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related articles on this topic; do read:

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Green-ing The Skyscraper

Posted onJune 23, 2012

Traditionally people live close to the ground where the house is surrounded by either elaborategardens or simple landscaping which has long become the ideal image of a home. However, due

to advance in technology that results in the population explosion of the world; this holistic idealof a home become an almost impossible dream especially in megacities which have all sorts ofconvenience in abundance except land. Skyrocketing land costs have eventually given birth to

skyscrapers in order to cater to the high demand for housing. The design of skyscrapers have

forced people to live further away from the ground and elevated them halfway in the sky wherethere is a lack of communal interaction horizontally. You cant hear your neighbors dog barks;you cant smell the freshness of the earth whenever rain drops hit the ground and you can nevercommunicate with your neighbor as you are tending to your flowers. All the basic humaninteractions are greatly reduced when living in a skyscraper. The only advantage of living high

up is that you are now able to get a birdseye view of the city below. However, you can only seeand not interact.

Given so much disadvantages associated with high rise living, does it mean that skyscrapers are

no longer relevant to our society? No, and in fact skyscrapers are here to stay! With the currentstate of population growth, there is no going back to landed housing especially if you are living

in cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. The only way designers and architects can

help to reduce the negative impact skyscrapers have on human life is through creative design

solutions.

The very minimum and most straight forward solution is to give back the gardens to peopleliving in high rise building. It has to be a proper garden like what we have on ground and not justa few pots of flowers and plants. Skyscrapers are basically multiple floor planes stacked on top

of one another in a discontinuous manner. This poses the biggest challenge if one tries to

landscape the entire building. Conventionally, architects simply designed planter boxes at the

buildings faades and hoped that residents will eventually plant something in them.Unfortunately, most of the planter boxes will eventually be converted either into balcony or

simply as an extension to the living room. Some even decided not to do anything with it and the

planter boxes ended up bare and aesthetically destructive.
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To achieve success in greening the skyscraper, the conditions that we are familiar with on ground

has to be recreated as much as possible on higher levels. The ideal situation will be the

landscaping is extended upwards from ground in a continuous manner so as to prevent a break inthe ecological system of the landscape design. Architect Dr. Ken Yeang has managed to achieve

this in his building through spiraling ecological linkages between floors.


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skyscraper as to breakdown the building into several clusters. The verticality of the skyscraper is

significantly watered down in this way as opportunities for horizontal interaction are now being

introduced. The psychological impact by having gardens in the sky is indeed significant as theresidents are able to perceive their living territories as being more than just the 1,000 sq.ft. of

space that they own. The garden becomes an extension of their living space much like what we

have traditionally on a landed house.

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Seafront Living @ Queensbay, Penang

Posted onApril 17, 2012

The boom is indeed here to stay with development all across the state due to the high demand for

prominent schemes on the ever precious land of Penang island. Major developments by the bigboys all focus on living by the sea due to its significance property value. However, most

developers stop right there in their marketing strategy and do not go beyond the location to lookinto adding design values to their projects. Most will come up with square boxes with maximumglazing and balconies as the norm in high rise residential design. Few would put extra effort and

time to explore the possibility of challenging the typology of residential building design and

come up with creative solution to our growing population.

However, there is one project by Asian Green Group which manage to stay away from common

practice and at least try to push the envelope. The project is called Seafront and it is located rightnext to the popular Queensbay Mall.
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The unique salient point of this project no doubt is its location close to the sea with potential

view of the Second Penang Bridge. But more interesting aspect of this project lies in its

architecture which allow for substantial void areas to intersperse its facade. These empty volumeof spaces act as green lung to the building so that the residents will enjoy garden facilities even if

they stay on higher floors. Such generous design is indeed hard to come by in the local scene

which focus more on maximizing floor area to reap highest profit for the developer. If the actual

building is built as per the impressive perspective shown above, this project may set new
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In Milan, Italy,architects are tackling the problems of the concrete jungle by building a vertical

forest in the city.

Called Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest),the vertical forest will host of 900 trees, 5,000

bushes and 11,000 plantsspan across the balconies of two residential towers 110 and 76 metershigh, in the center of Milan.

Boeristudio architects(Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, and Giovanni La Varra) believe thatthe Bosco Vertical will help produce oxygen and humidity, absorb CO2 and dust particles, and

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Green zone: From neat patches of grass to vertical cascading plants and high-rise garden beds,Melbourne apartment buildings are embracing green spaces.

It wasn't that long ago that a green space in an apartment was nothing more than a pot plant on a

balcony but these days new developments are increasingly incorporating multi-use green spacesinto their designs.

"If you can soften highly urbanised environments with nature, or an interpretation of nature orpockets of nature or faces of nature, that's a really good thing," says architect Karl Fender.

Plants, he says, provide soft edges, shade, amenity and visual delight. With many of them ending

up on the roof of these inner-city apartment towers, they also have benefits in terms of climatechange, which is why the City of Melbourne has several green-roof initiatives.

"Green roofs can cool hot cities, reduce stormwater drainage and provide a layer of soil-like

material and plants, helping to insulate buildings year round. They also enhance our urban

landscape, creating social and leisure environments," reads the City of Melbourne website.

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People are moving into the inner city but many are wanting a little piece of that old-fashioned

backyard to come with them. So developers, says Shane Williams, are responding to market

demand. "They know if they want to sell their apartments quickly they will need to offer thesesorts of facilities in order to get the sales they want," he says.

Williams is a design principal from Cottee Parker Architects, the firm behind the Upper WestSide development (the block bordered by Spencer, Lonsdale, Little Bourke streets and Rose

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Four separate high-rise towers will be linked by a podium-level garden, rising and falling

between five and seven floors above street levelin total about 0.4 of a hectare. Oncecomplete, this rooftop parkland will become one of the largest green spaces in the MelbourneCBD.

"An acre of land gets used up pretty quickly. It sounds big but it doesn't take long to fill it," saysWilliams. Upper West Side will eventually include 2500 apartmentsa "vertical village", hesaysso the accompanying green space is designed to make the area more livable.

Like other developments, such as The Quays on Victoria Harbour, which will have a rooftop

garden with barbecue facilities, Upper West Side's green space will feature barbecue and

recreational areas, as well as flowers and trees.

"The apartments themselves are typically quite small, which is the general trend at the moment,

but that has other benefits in enabling people to actually get in there and purchase because theyare affordable. So creating facilities for barbecues and the like, where people can congregate

with their friends, is important," Williams says.

"The other thing we're really pushing is the community garden idea, which is quite popular in

inner-suburban areas. We've earmarked certain areas for that as well, particularly on the north

face." There'll also be composting centres and rainwater will be captured and used on theserooftop gardens.

Salta Properties' Green Square apartments, a stone's throw from Victoria Gardens shoppingcentre on the Abbotsford side of Victoria Street, is a collection of low-rise apartment buildings

around, as the name suggests, a "green square".

The outdoor space, designed by landscape architect Jack Merlo, of Jack Merlo Design, is arecreational hub, which will feature semi-secluded and open spaces including a cascading edge

pool, barbecue areas, day beds and shaded spaces.

Merlo is also landscape architect for the Sunday apartments on Coventry Street, Southbank,

which are to be dotted with "green breaks". Breezeways will link apartments between towers andstaggered on alternate floors, from the fifth to the 13th, will be wide bridges, featuring

landscaped gardens and benches.

Palms trees will border the north-facing outdoor pool and spa and upright plantings, such as

bamboo, will feature in the 10-metre-wide courtyard. Jack Merlo Designs has also created a two-

storey void in the lobby. Carved from the building and filled at ground level with cylindricalbamboo planters and low-growing ivy, it will be complemented by overhead trailing plants.

Vertical green spaces are also gaining ground in tight inner-urban areas with space issues;designed well, they are also points of aesthetic interest. Using nature as a key influence, Elenberg

Fraser's low-rise Illura apartments in West Melbourne will feature external "living walls" of

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This will complement the low-lying greenery and bamboo garden that is part of the courtyard

between buildings, which is enclosed by a glass walkway. Illura's lobby, while not an actual

green space, has been inspired by one. Referencing rainforests, it will feature wicker, timber andgreen stone panels interspersed with mirrored panels, to visually suggest tree trunks and create a

forest effect.

And green spaces need not be limited to the outdoors. Hamton's 50 Albert in South Melbourne

will have a "tranquil indoor garden retreat". Mirvac's Yarra Point, opposite Point Park on Yarra's

Edge at Docklands, will have a two-level lobby featuring mature trees, a garden of succulentsand bluestone paving that extends from the nearby park into the building.

When they enter, residents will feel as if they are walking through a private garden, saysMirvac's design director, Julian Venning. "To accentuate the foliage, an interior heart has also

been established with the creation of a central feature wall in warm ochre tones," he says.

At 108 Flinders, a 12-storey building directly across the road from the Australian Centre for the

Moving Image and Federation Square, the upper-ground floor will house an internal courtyard.Architect Karl Fender, from project designers Fender Katsalidis Architects, describes it as being

"a lyrical interpretation of a green space".

Shade is provided by a canopy of unique suspended upside down model trees, while underfootare stone tiles and glass-bottomed water features, to refract ambient, dappled light below. "It'smore of an urban courtyard and it's more of a highly sculptured space which has a lyrical

connection to landscaping by turning it upside down philosophically, in a way," he says.

"People love gardens . . . why shouldn't they have gardens if they live in an apartment? Anyway

that it can be done, whether it's pocket parks, the greening of buildings, the greening of roofs, the

greening of facades . . . is fantastic."

ts the glamour apartment complex where the plants outside the windows will be as upwardlymobile as the residents.

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At the Andreasens Green wholesale nursery in Lansvale, 30,000 shrubs, which will soon form

the worlds tallest vertical garden, are already being grown, horizontally to adorn the vertiginousfacades of the new One Central Park complex.

A further 70,000 or so plants, totalling nearly 360 exotic and native species, are being cultivatedat several locations around Australia. The shrubs at Lansvale, in Sydneys south-west, aredestined for two dozen green wall panels, some as high as 16-storeys, which will be attachedto the north and south facades of the developments east and west towers facing Broadway.

The vertical garden is the brainchild of the renowned French artist-botanist Patrick Blanc, in

collaboration with Central Parks architect, the Frances Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Jean
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Nouvel. Keith Stead, a landscape architect with Aspect Oculus in Sydney, is a member of the

team working with Blanc.

Green screenan artists impression of the One Central Park apartments and the vertical garden

Something like thishas never been done on this scale, he said of the $2 billion project underconstruction at Broadway, Chippendale. It has to be one of Patrick Blancs biggest installationsand it must be interesting for him to be doing a project of this scale in Australia, especially since

hes chosen some unusual native plants.

The chosen shrubs, from Western Australia, Queensland, Victoria and NSW, are designed to

spill over planter boxes or climb up cables, creating a calming green screen in the middle ofthe inner city. Species include varieties of red, pink and purple bougainvillea, dwarf bottle

brushes, with deep-red flowers, and vine species with flowers in whites, reds, yellows and

purples.

The 110-metre-high One Central Park apartment and retail complex, on the former Carlton andUnited brewery site, is due for completion next year. The dramatic greening process should

begin between October and February, when the plants will be brought to the site from theirvarious nurseries.

In addition to Blancs signature green walls, 2700 planter boxes, containing a special mix ofdurable soil, have already been installed and are awaiting tens of thousands of shrubs. Between
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the more exclusive levels 29 to 33 of the complexs east tower, residents will enjoy their ownprivate lushly planted cantilevered Sky Garden that juts from the facade.

Stead says Aspect Oculus has tested individual shrubs destined for the facades in a St Peters

wind tunnel laboratory in order to assess their suitability to Sydneys variable climate. Stead says

it was the first time the laboratory had tested plants.

In their unusually elevated and exposed positions, the plants will need to be able to withstand

Sydneys gusty and gale-force winds, occasional heatwaves and relatively high levels ofhumidity. To this end, Aspect Oculus has drawn up a colour-coded plan of the facades with

different zones of exposure, based on wind and sun levels, that will guide where each plantshould best be planted.

The biggest challenge has just been working out how to get this much greenery on a building,and making sure that it will grow and thrive, Stead said.

Of course, maintenance will be a factor in Central Parks vertical garden being a bloomingsuccess, with all planted areas to be meticulously maintained by the owners corporation. Ahydroponic system will automatically water and fertilise the vertical garden, which Stead

promises has been designed not to gush on to those below.

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