Architect Juli Capella was tasked- by the city of Barcelona- to design a vertical garden to cover a nearly 70-foot-high windowless wall (leftover after an adjacent building was demolished). Instead of creating a typical living wall that simply covered the existing surface with plants, he constructed a piece of architecture (or vegitecture) that acts like any conventional building, with a door, stairs and floors. But unlike any other building, it has plants for walls.
Unlike other vertical gardens that require a crane to fertilize or replace plants, gardeners simply climb the stairs and aided by a pulley-system and swappable planter boxes can keep the vertical garden in an ever-green state. A drip irrigation system keeps water use low and upkeep at a minimum.
Given my experience climbing the 8 floors with a camera bag, I don’t doubt that it’s upkeep is similar to any other urban garden. Now just add some vegetables and it might start to resemble a prototype for skyscraper farming.
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amazing
An expansion on the idea of bats:
In Damascus, across from the Sebki Park in Sha'alan district, the rooftop lights of a bank attracted insects. All night long, bats swirled in the colored lights. A very exotic scene. I watched the swirls of flitting bats from my rooftop apartment.
Add lights to the garden structure. Millions more insects.
If every building will use two of its walls and do this Most cities will be able grow its own food
sky farming ? lol wonderful idea ! I LOVE his work ….but….I agree with +Kirsten Dirksen , Food will help even more ! Maybe some of the tenants ???(or neighbors) would like to help take care of the produce and reap the benefits of this 'new age' Crop-Sharing ;)
Edible plants 🙂
I've seen lots of videos about Spain, and the Spaniards seem like some of the coolest people in the world. I plan on visiting many times when I'm done with school.
fantastic story!
"I don't remember but its huge!" lol
genial! and so beautiful. this is a great channel. i have a permaculture project not far from barcelona where we run courses exploring eco and socially responsible solutions to problems… city problems and countryside ones. it's called boodaville – look it up if you are interested in an educational, practical and beautiful getaway!
anna
this garden reminds me of NYC jungle in Crysis 3
itd be better if it were edible plants. Then again I dont know If Id want them absorbing all the smog.
I am inspired by your claim for contentment, as we all are thinking about money, I hope more people can reduce, reclaim their lives, as you have, what it the name of your business, do you have a website. Please share more, I enjoyed your video.
Thank-you for sharing
Wendy
It is still growing.
A fram with all that cars around? Who's gonna eat the production? No, urban farm is not an option. Urban plants are filters and de-contaminators, not a source of food.
I guess the frame is rustfree. Besides, it's supposed to be looked after. Plants and all.
increible perdida de tiempo
25 years from now rust bucket that will be unsafe to work on and will overgrown and be an unpleasant sight to seek
When you start to accept ABSURDS like this humongously huge number of cars, the absence of a really decent public transport as well as a lack of bicycle infra-structure PEOPLE start to see "SOLUTIONS" that are nothing other than plain madness.
reason why spain has financial issues is because of how the real estate market was affected by the global crisis.
Cool!