The vertical garden by Patrick Blanc the conquest of the city wall to plant
Patrick Blanc, botamico known French designer of the vertical garden or wall plant. A life devoted to a technique that defies the laws of gravity, as a child when hanging plants on the ceiling so that we draw moisture from the aquarium. Today that child is now one of the most experienced botamici about urban design, successfully convert ample and vertical walls into works of art made with the cultivation of specific plants.
It is not mere compositions plant who perform landscaping, I want to diminish the aesthetic value it equally noble tasks.
There are several walls of plants made by Patrick Blank anywhere in the world, from the center CaixaForum Madrid Shopping Centre des Quatre Temps in La Défense district of Paris, on a wall at the Hotel Athenaeum in London to other facilities in Portugal, in Kuwaitin Australia and Asia.
Patrick Blanc performs these works green thanks to a team of gardeners – climbers who first make sure the surface of a wire carrying an installation consisting of a coated aluminum frame and covered with two sheets of synthetic felt constantly sprayed by a water system that also uses rainwater and fertilizers.
About ‘s80% of plants are always green, so as to minimize the maintenance work and intervention botomanico, but 20% is trained by seasonal plants eg to demonstrate a hull, which changes color to go the season.
Furthermore the installation requires a thorough study on the ability of plants to adapt to different heights and their respective micro-climates.
To this have been identified around 260 different plant species.
















