Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment VIVA... Rooftop Style. Enjoy.
British Library Boston Spa Storage Site
by HOK
:: image via SpaceInvading
Hijauan Saujana Resort
:: image via Urban Greenery
In an effort to remedy my bursting archives, I'm instituting a new feature called DailyLand (with apologies to ArchDaily, which does the same in much greater depth and detail). Look for one-a-day in brief for the immediate future, which will also allow me to keep up with the great content out there.
"Korean photographer Hosang Park's series A Square consists of bird's-eye views of the small, over-landscaped parks that seem to accompany modern apartment towers all over the world." (Read and see more at BLDGBLOG)
:: images via BLDGBLOG
The blog/tumblr Urban Greenery offers a constant and seemingly endless stream of vegetated architecture in action, call it daily green, thus the theme of this installation of VIA focuses around a bevy of posts from this source (with a few others thrown in for measure).
One of the most stunning is from Core77, combining mass transit and greenery - via UG: ""Växtväggen (Swedish for “Plantwall”) is a self-supporting system composed of a reinforced, multi-layered, synthetic and absorbent felt-surface on which plants are applied into small pockets. Michael says: ‘Just like any garden, the vertical garden is a place of life and change. I try to achieve it by finding the essence of every plant - it could be a special color of its leafs, its texture, the way it growths etc - and give each species an environment where this may be at display.'"
:: image via Urban Greenery
There's a wealth of other vertical greenery on the site, including some visuals cribbed from an old post via PingMag... including these elevators from Patrick Blanc.
:: Green Elevator in Bangkok - image via Urban Greenery
:: Green Elevator - image via Urban Greenery
And this recent post, showing that rainwater harvesting systems don't need to be ugly and utilitarian. "“CISTA is a rain water harvesting system designed for urban environments. It provides storage for rain water within a vertical planted frame, allowing us to conserve water and increase green space.”
:: image via Urban Greenery
And some ephemera...
:: Secret Garden in NYC - image via Urban Greenery
:: Roof Garden, Chongqing, China - image via Urban Greenery
:: Roof Garden, Boston - image via Urban Greenery
:: Roof Garden, Toronto - image via Urban Greenery
And a project that has made the rounds in the past few days... SYNTHe, by Alexis Rochas. One of those wow projects that doesn't really ellicit much critical dialogue - it's a pretty stunning, beautiful and horribly inefficient way to grow veggies... pretty apt for LA :)
:: image via Urban Greenery
:: additional image via Inhabitat
More VIA and VIVA on the way as the coffers are full... stay tuned.
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