AS WE BEGIN TO BUILD our own living wall systems here at Green Apple headquarters, Peter sent me out on a field trip to check out the two existing vertical gardens in the GTA. I snapped up these photographs yesterday at the Robertson Building in downtown Toronto, and at the Guelph-Humber College building in the west end. My mission was to get up close and personal with these green walls, and document their construction details. These is a real dearth of this kind of information out there on the web; there are no small amount of flashy photographs of finished walls, but very little in the way of practical schematics for D-I-Y wall builders. So I’m uploading these image files up to the blog, so that the next wanna-be bio-wall builder that comes along will have an easier time of it. And if you do decide to go ahead and build one by yourself, send us some photos and a testimonial, so we can take part in your eco-joy!
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Felt fabric holding the plants
Zip-ties and bolts holding the fabric in place
Underneath the felt is corrugated PVC and then an air vent
This pump system circulates the water back to the top of the wall
The wall draws air in, filters it, and vents it back into the lobby
Tags: living walls, vertical gardens
