Growwest Biennial of the Americas Interior Landscape Proposal
February 24, 2010
Team leader: Karla Dakin
Team members: Andy Creath, Celia Curtis, Jennifer Bousselot, Leila Toderlund, Lisa Lee Benjamin, Mark Fusco
Project narratives:
1. Vinedelier
Traditionally vines cover walls, needing structure to climb. Rapidly growing, vines provide insulation and cooling while improving air quality. From a Permaculture perspective, vines are the quickest “live” way to manipulate the climate of a building.
Vinedelier takes a playful look at our expectations of vines and interior light. This interior landscape hangs below the skylight on the 3rd floor. Vines hang down in loops and swirls resembling a baroque chandelier. This is a world where the vines compete with the audience for the light, creating a shady space beneath a skylight. They do not cling to walls but hang like a curtain that the audience can walk through and touch. The light filtering down through the skylight fuels the plants.
Technical details: Vines are pre-grown in planter boxes in green houses. The boxes will rest on the dropped ceiling grid and be tied down. The vines will then be attached in various places to resemble a chandelier. Other vines will drape to the floor. A watering system will be provided to give the vines the minimum water they need to survive.
2. Cactus Column Condoms
What better way to sheath and protect your columns while giving the building occupants a vertical garden, than our cactus column condoms. This project is a green wall system that uses recycled materials for the structure, requires no watering system, no maintenance and just light to thrive. Additionally, cacti are native, climate appropriate and intriguingly beautiful.
Technical details: Based on a 20’ height, each column will have the rough dimensions of 20 s.f. per side totaling 80 s.f. of fabric structure. The structure will be sewn in 4’ x 1’ modules taking up 5 pieces per side of column totally 20 pieces per column. The module pieces will be mounted by grommets attached to all thread bolts welded to the columns.
The plant material is cacti, native or climate appropriate, planted with little soil in a pocket like system.
There will be a collection/waterproofing system for the little water that will accumulate after 2 hand-watering per month.
February 24, 2010
Team leader: Karla Dakin
Team members: Andy Creath, Celia Curtis, Jennifer Bousselot, Leila Toderlund, Lisa Lee Benjamin, Mark Fusco
Project narratives:
1. Vinedelier
Traditionally vines cover walls, needing structure to climb. Rapidly growing, vines provide insulation and cooling while improving air quality. From a Permaculture perspective, vines are the quickest “live” way to manipulate the climate of a building.
Vinedelier takes a playful look at our expectations of vines and interior light. This interior landscape hangs below the skylight on the 3rd floor. Vines hang down in loops and swirls resembling a baroque chandelier. This is a world where the vines compete with the audience for the light, creating a shady space beneath a skylight. They do not cling to walls but hang like a curtain that the audience can walk through and touch. The light filtering down through the skylight fuels the plants.
Technical details: Vines are pre-grown in planter boxes in green houses. The boxes will rest on the dropped ceiling grid and be tied down. The vines will then be attached in various places to resemble a chandelier. Other vines will drape to the floor. A watering system will be provided to give the vines the minimum water they need to survive.
2. Cactus Column Condoms
What better way to sheath and protect your columns while giving the building occupants a vertical garden, than our cactus column condoms. This project is a green wall system that uses recycled materials for the structure, requires no watering system, no maintenance and just light to thrive. Additionally, cacti are native, climate appropriate and intriguingly beautiful.
Technical details: Based on a 20’ height, each column will have the rough dimensions of 20 s.f. per side totaling 80 s.f. of fabric structure. The structure will be sewn in 4’ x 1’ modules taking up 5 pieces per side of column totally 20 pieces per column. The module pieces will be mounted by grommets attached to all thread bolts welded to the columns.
The plant material is cacti, native or climate appropriate, planted with little soil in a pocket like system.
There will be a collection/waterproofing system for the little water that will accumulate after 2 hand-watering per month.
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