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2013 Top 10 List of Hot Trends in Greenroof & Greenwall Design
1. 2013 Top 10 List of Hot Trends in
Greenroof & Greenwall Design
By Linda S. Velazquez, ASLA, LEED AP, GRP, Greenroofs.com Publisher & Editor
& Haven Kiers, MLA, LEED AP, GRP, Greenroofs.com Design Editor
CitiesAlive 2013, San Francisco, CA
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4. A Few Favorites
Not on โThe Listโ
Beijing, China: 2007-2013. Mountaintop Villa
& Rooftop Art.
When designing a rooftop garden...
images ยฉ Luo Xiaoguang/Xinhua &
imaginechina
6. Light Park Floating Skyscraper
China: Conceptual. Third Place in eVolo 2013 Skyscraper Competition. City too crowded?
Take new development, parks & plants to the sky!
image ยฉ Ting Xu, Yiming Chen
7. Light Park
Helium & fanned living platforms float above - itโs not a โSky Parkโ โ itโs a Light Park!
By: Ting Xu and Yiming Chen.
images ยฉ Ting Xu, Yiming
Chen
8. reTHINK Bay Bridge
Taking Reuse and Recycling to the Next Level โ Instead of Demolishing the Bridge, Plant it!
By: Rael San Fratello Architects .
images ยฉ RAEL SAN FRATELLO
ARCHITECTS
9. # 10:
Client Specific
โBoutique Greenroofs/Wallsโ
10. Green Your Ride: PhytoKinetic
Catalonia, Spain: 2013. A new vision of urban horticulture with lettuce, endives, mint, thyme
and rosemary - while traveling up to 120km/h.
images ยฉ Marc Graรฑen
11. images ยฉ Marc Graรฑรฉn
By: Marc Graรฑรฉn, landscape artist.
12. Warding Off Evil Spirits: Firma Casa
Sรฃo Paulo, Brazil: 2011. Art gallery & store covered in Sansevieria trifasciata - snake plant; of
African origin, it offers protection from the evil eye or bewitchment.
images ยฉ Maira Acayaba
13. images ยฉ Maira Acayaba
African-Brazilian religious rituals:
supernatural powers.
14. By: SuperLimรฃo Studio,
Fernando & Humberto Campana,
Maria Helena Cruz.
images ยฉ Maira Acayaba
15. Fractured Views: Marina Lofts
Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Current. Mixed-use transforms New River creating public life along the
riverfront while maintaining existing marine activities.
17. Marina Lofts
By: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and Cymbal Development.
18. Sustainable Tourism in London
UK: 2013. The Rubens at the Palace - on tourist route,
โThe green lungs of Victoriaโ greenwall is countryโs largest.
Image ยฉ Luxurious Magazine
19. The Rubens at the Palace
Images ยฉ Solent News & Photo Agency
and Luxurious Magazine
By: Gary Grant, Green Roof Consultancy & TreeBox.
20. Soccer Team Expanding its Brand
Ras al Khaimah, UAE: 2012-2015. The Real Madrid project hasn't started yet: lack of funds.
Tourist Complex 10,000-seat stadium, 5-star hotel, beachside bungalows & amusement park
on man-made island.
21. Real Madrid Island Resort
50 hectare facility expected to
attract one million visitors in its
opening year.
22. Real Madrid Island Resort
By: J+H Boiffils sponsored by emirate Ras Al-Khaimah.
23. An Urban Vertical Forest: Bosco Verticale
Milan, Italy: Current โ late 2013. 2 high-density tower blocks with integrated PV energy
systems planted with 2.5 acres of forest.
51. Spa Center Rigi Kaltbad
Lucerne, Switzerland. Water, granite & forests in the Alps.
52. Spa Center Rigi Kaltbad
Modular glass skylights reflect light of interior baths. By: Mario Botta.
53. Casa de la Flora
Khao Lak, Thailand: 2012. Modernist hideaway in tropical setting. Voted one of best by Condรฉ
Nast Traveler's Hot List 2012; ozone purification & wastewater and rainwater recycling.
54. Casa de la Flora
Won the Travelerโs Choice Award 2013. By: VaSlab Architecture.
55. Intercontinental Sanya Resort
Sanya, China: 2011. 350 rooms on the tropical island stretch from the forest to the ocean.
69. Draws urban environment & landscape into the building.
School of the Arts
Singapore: 2011.
image ยฉ
By: WOHA Architects.
70. image ยฉ Arup
image ยฉ Splitterwerk Architects
BIQ House
Hamburg, Germany: 2013. Worldโs 1st algae-powered buildings has bio-adaptive algae faรงade.
Zero-energy housing project uses PBR (photobioreactors) for the cultivation of microalgae.
71. BIQ House
(The Clever Treefrog)
Designed for the IBA (International
Building Exhibition) Hamburg.
image ยฉ Linda S. Velazquez
image ยฉ Splitterwerk Architects
Algae in the bio-reactor faรงades
grow faster in bright sunlight &
provide more shade.
72. BIQ House
Image right
ยฉ Linda S. Velazquez
Image left ยฉ Splitterwerk Architects
73. Olaya
Riyadh,.
By: Splitterwerk
Architects, Arup & SSC
Strategic Science
Consultants
image ยฉ Linda S. Velazquez
74. # 5:
From Hippies to Techies:
California as an Up and Coming
Leader in Greenroofs & Walls
80. The GAP HQ (901 Cherry)
San Bruno, CA: 1997
By: William McDonough + Partners, Rana Creek Living Architecture, American Hydrotech
81. Drew School
San Francisco: 2011. New assembly, performing
arts space & classroom building. 3.5-story 1,720 sf
living wall + 2,630 sf living roof. 4,579 native CA
plants โ 64 of the 105 species from Bay area.
LEED Gold NC and for School Pilot.
By: Roma Architects, Patrick Blanc, Rana Creek.
82. Blueseedโs Floating City
Off the coast of CA: Current. To showcase cutting-edge energy generation & waste treatment
systems. A โvisa-free incubator for tech startups.โ
83. Blueseedโs Floating City
Off the coast of CA: Current. โVisa-free incubator for tech startupsโ is seeking clean tech
professionals to join the offshore Silicon Valley team.
84. Blueseedโs Floating City
Great hub of creativity & talented entrepreneurs from around the world - seeking eco startups
& clean tech professionals to join the offshore Silicon Valley team.
85. Google Campus
San Francisco: Current. Cluster of bent rectangles, structures connected by bridges - 1 leads to
greenroof cafรฉ; total of 5 greenroofs.
By: NBBJ, Turner Construction, DPR Construction, Sares Regis Group.
86. Facebook Campus
San Francisco: 2014 start. Largest open-plan
office in the world. 280 engineers under a
walkable greenroof.
90. # 4:
Local Government Acting
Globally with Building
Integrated Greenery
91. Transbay Transit Center
San Francisco: Current-2017. 5.4 acre park & huge integrated water management system.
stormwater and graywater reuse saves approximately 2.85 million gallons of potable water.
By: Pelli Clark Pelli, Adamson Associates, ARUP, Peter Walker & Partners, Rana Creek & more.
92. Olaya Metro Station
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Current. Shape informed by massive sand dunes; 1st time a city in the
region would be reached by public transport. Roof garden = a destination.
image ยฉ bloomimages
93. Olaya
Metro Station
images ยฉ bloomimages
Roof shape allows abundant
daylighting.
Raised public gardens extend
over entire area of the station.
94. Olaya Metro Station
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia : Current.
By: Gerber Architekten.
image ยฉ bloomimages
95. Delhi Pollution Control Committee Office
Delhi, India. Competition Winner - 2014. An expression of the work they do to clean the
environment, the new office will soak up pollution.
96. Delhi Pollution Control Committee Office
Feeds on polluted air & water & returns them cleansed.
101. Bouctot-Vagniez Regional Chamber of
Commerce and Industry
Amiens, France: 2009. Architects created a daylighted and vegetated extension
to the Bouctot-Vagniez Town Hall.
103. Regional Chamber of
Commerce and Industry
By: Chartier-Corbasson Architectes
104. New York Breathing Machine
image ยฉ Independent Architectural Diplomacy
2012 NYC competition winner for Vertical Garden concept. Office, Hotel and Sky Garden =
Green Lung & Net-Positive Energy Superskyscraper with pvโs, micro turbines, ETFE skin.
105. A winding organically shaped ramp flows thru
the building to form the vertical garden -
vertical park length of paths: 12.5 km
images ยฉ Independent Architectural Diplomacy
New York, NY
106. images ยฉ Independent Architectural Diplomacy
Cladding around the gardens is structural and serves for environmental
system control. By: IAD
New York
Breathing
Machine
107. # 3:
Social Responsibility:
Putting Your Greenroof or Wall
Where Your Mouth Is
108. Emory Knoll Farms/Green Roof Plants
images ยฉ Linda S. Velazquez
Street, MD: Co-founders Ed Snodgrass & John Shepley operate a socially just and sustainable
business. Redesign of farm based on the Natural Step. โReduce, Reuse, Recycle.โ
109. image ยฉ Caroline Menetre
โIn a sustainable world,
we must be systems thinkersโ
โข Green houses & offices heated w/spent fry oil;
โขWater for the nursery pumped w/ solar power;
โข Greenroofs and photovoltaics;
โข Employees job share;
โข Planted 9 acres of native trees & are turning
โข over 75 acres into ground bird habitat.
images ยฉ Linda S. Velazquez
110. Williams Engineering
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: 2010. โSustainability is more than just a trend. It defines how we
work and the vision we have for our community.โ
image ยฉBioroof
111. Williams Engineering Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: 2010..
Ongoing plant research
with Northern Alberta
Institute of Technology
image ยฉBioroof
for dry and
windy rooftops.
By: Bioroof
116. Transformadora Ciel
Transformadora Ciel
Mexico City, Mexico: 2012.
image ยฉ Jaime Navarro
Annual Savings:
โข4.872 liters of water
harvested;
โข81 kg of particulates &
CO2 captured;
โข3.840 kW produced by
solar panels
By: Rojkind Arquitectos,
Zona Verde MX.
117. Xero Flor America
Durham, NC: 2013. The Republik has the 1st greenroof on a historic building. The potential
landmark supports commitment to sustainability.
image ยฉ Xero Flor America
119. Hurghada Environmental Protection
& Conservation Association
Red Sea, Egypt: Current. HEPCA: Funded in part by the U.S. Forest Service, they educate
children about the Red Seaโs bio marvels - boat entirely wind & solar powered.
121. Desert Development Center/American University at Cairo
Cairo, Egypt: 2013. Also funded by USFS, the UAC rooftop aquaponic system & trial models
greenroof goals: Research, Resource, Broaden Awareness and Promote Implementation.
Designed by DDC/UAC & Peter Ensign (of DC Greenworks).
122. # 2:
The Influence of Architects -
Taking a Leadership Role in
Greenroof Design:
Ando, Yeang & Ambasz
123. Tadao Ando
Architectural style is said to create a "haiku" effect, emphasizing nothingness and empty space
to represent the beauty of simplicity. Naoshima Art Museum, Japan: 1995.
127. Ken Yeang
โGreen design deserves its own aesthetic.โ Bioclimatic skyscrapers. Solaris at Fusionopolis,
Singapore: 2008. Vertical planting spine thru 15-story building. Landscaped garden
terraces on each floor, diagonal prism light pipe for daylighting.
128. Ken Yeang
Ken Yeang
Shenzen, Gangxia Development, China: Pending. By TR Hamzah & Yeang.
129. Ken Yeang
Zorlu Ecocity: Istanbul, Turkey. Mixed-use development project w/14 towers planned as a โcity
within a city.โ Office & residential towers, apartments, 2 hotels & resort-like elderly units cover
a 3-story retail complex.
130. Ken Yeang
Forerunner of Green Architecture โ โGreen Over Grey.โ
EDIT Tower, Singapore: Pending. Ecological Design In The Tropics is a 26-story highrise with
natural ventilation, pvโs, biogas generation plant - wrapped within an insulating living wall
that covers half of its surface area.
131. Emilio Ambasz
Forerunner of Green Architecture โ โGreen Over Grey.โ
ACROS - Fukuoka Prefectural International Hall, Japan: 1994. Transposed 100,000 m2 park.
135. Emilio Ambasz
Casa del Retiro Espiritual/The House of Spiritual Retreat, Spain: Designed in 1975, built 2000.
Reconciling architecture with nature. Arabic-Andalusian modernist.
137. # 1:
Greening Mixed Use:
Sustainable Urban Living
with Man-made Ecosystems
138. THE:SQUAREยณ
Berlin, Germany: 2014-17. Mixed-use complex of 3 towers of gold, silver, and bronze mimic
the 3-tiered Olympic medal stands.
139. THE:SQUAREยณ
Revitalization plan also has 3 diagonal shaped city blocks organized around themes of Sport,
Nature & Life. Diagonal zigzags of greenroofs & walls, cascading balconies & green piazza.
140. THE:SQUAREยณ
Our goal is to answer the question: โHow do we want to live in the future?โ
By: Moritz Gruppe and LAVA.
141. Yongsan International Business District
Seoul, South Korea: 2016.
$26 Billion.
67 buildings: offices, hotels, condos
entertainment & parks will create
360,000 new jobs.
image ยฉ ยฉ Ray-us corp
144. images ยฉYongsan
Development Co
image ยฉDREAMHUB INC
Highlight: 620-
meter high, 111-
story landmark
tower + 2 dozen
other โsuper-highโ
buildings.
By: Studio Daniel
Libeskind,
Renzo Piano,
Adrian Smith
145. Chongqing Chaotianmen
image ยฉSafdie Architects
Chongqing, China: 2011-Current. 10 million sf mixed-use at meeting point between the Yangtze
and Jialing rivers. Prow-like arc of 6 towers represents ancient sails.
146. Restaurant overlooks peninsula.
Sky garden bridge has hotel lobby,
restaurants & clubs w/gardens
& pools above.
images ยฉSafdie Architects
147. Inward facing balconies with
hanging vegetation to meet the
amphitheatre gardens & park at
podium level โ underneath are 5
levels of public programs.
images ยฉSafdie Architects
149. Dubai Sustainable City
United Arab Emirates: Current. 600,000 sf of solar, 46-hectare city to produce
50% of electricity.
150. Dubai Sustainable City
1.Entrance
2.Equestrian Centre
3.School
4.Jouma Mosque
5.Reception Tower
6.Institute
7.Mixed Use
8.Staff/StudentAccommodation
9.Townhouses
10.Semi-Attached Villas
11.Bio-dome Greenhouses
12. Organic Farm
13.Constructed Wetlands
14.Planetarium / Conservatory
15.Resort Bungalows
16.Horse Track
17.Playgrounds
18.Solar Shade Canopy Over Parking
19.Sports Field
lti-Use Games Courts
12.Country Club
13.Utilities
By: Stringa Planning Studio,
Baharash Architecture.
151. Europa City
images ยฉBIG
Paris, France: BIG won international competition-2020/21. Urban hybrid of intimate inner city
+ open landscapes + long views. Ski slope, thermal springs - huge greenroof!
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