Vertical Gardens by Michael Hellgren

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垂直花园是近几年兴起的一种景观形式，发展前景相当大。现在有许多公司专门针对这一领域市场进行发展，取得了不错的成绩。以前gooood的豆瓣日记上有一篇关于垂直花园的介绍，上面记述了垂直花园的常用3种做法，以及其它公司案例，详情点击here。

今天在这里介绍的是Michael Hellgren的几个作品。希望国内可以驯化出更适合中国气候的垂直绿化变种植物并推广开来，让环境更加优美（园林植物引种驯化的同学们，请加油哦~~~弄出性强健的长期性低维护漂亮植物）。

 

ABOUT

Vertical gardens are a relatively new field of work, and as such it has room for a lot of development. Since 2004, Vertical Garden Design has focused on the design aspect of these type of gardens – to offer projects that stand out from the average range. This involves  a continuos effort to increase the knowledge about suitable plants in order to create gardens for a wide range of locations and climates.

The company was started by Michael Hellgren, a Swedish landscape architect with studies at SLU in Uppsala, Sweden and École d’architecture et de paysage de Bordeaux, France.

The work with vertical gardens began with the degree thesis Vegetation on vertical surfaces in indoor environments – A model for a technical solution, where the technique, developed by Frenchman Patrick Blanc, was studied. The first vertical garden in Sweden was built in 2004. Since then, projects have been carried out in several European countries.

 

NATURA TOWERS – Lisbon

EXTERIOR

This garden wraps around three sides of the square, facing south, east and north. The surface has  several openings, doors and shop windows, and goes along two sets of stairs that connect the square with the upper- and lower levels. These openings and irregularities creates an interesting surface as it integrates several functions and invites the visitors to come close.The north facing wall enjoys a protected location with no direct sunlight at all. It hosts a variety of ferns from genera as Asplenium, Athyrium, Pteris and Polystichum, and many broad leaved species like different Begonia, Pilea, and Arum. There are also contrasting fields with thin, linear leafed plants – like Iris japonica and some varieties of Chlorophytum comosum. Together, it creates a moist, woodland character with an additional tropical touch brought by a few solitary, larger exoxtic plants, like Philodendron bipinnatifidum, Platycerium bifurcatum and Monstera deliciosa.For a large part of the day, the south facing wall is shadowed by one of the buildings, but still, the sun exposure creates significantly different growing conditions. Unlike the other walls where most plants have rather modest flowering, this wall is more colorful, for example species of  Ceanothus, Geranium, Fuchsia, Bergenia, Cuphea, Heuchera, Lantana, Pelargonium and Campanula. There is also some areas with grass- or grasslike plants. The intention is to create small, light, moving grass-fields framing some of the openings. As a total there are approximately 300 species.

INTERIOR

In the main entrance of the new MSF office, the garden is split in two, divided by a waterfall over black slate. The base  consists of some common species of Philodendron, Scindapsus, Pteris, Peperomia and Davallia. The tropical touch given by the waterfall is emphasized by plants from the Araceae family that are less usual to find in European nurseries, among others: Philodendron ‘Burle Marx’, Philodendron giganteum and Anthurium Veitchii. A few of these will potentially grow quite big as the years go by, developing mature leafs that are very different from the juvenile character. Some species of Begonia, Asparagus, and Pteris can be found both in the indoor and outdoor garden.

 

NATURA塔楼

外墙：为塔楼临广场的群房设置了3面垂直花园。留出窗和门的开口。广场有落差，因此形成了有趣的景象，并集成多种功能。北墙没有阳光，因此植物以耐荫植物为主，比如芋科的，蕨科的，海棠科的某些植物，再点缀彩叶草和吊兰，配上大叶子的龟背竹之类的，很有热带感觉，像湿润的雨林。而在阳光充足的南墙，种上了比其它墙面更绚丽的开花植物，比如天竺葵，风铃，马缨丹，还有一些华丽的十字花科植物，配以官也植物。设计师也确保了墙面的轻质。因为面积还算蛮大的。
室内：室内运用了一些常见的室内植物，比如：绿萝，凤尾，红掌，海棠，芦荟等等，以观叶植物为主。

 

REPLAY – Florence

The vertical garden at the Replay store in Florence covers a 7m high L-shaped wall in the 3-storey boutique. The garden is inspired by the undergrowth of a temperate forest, similar to what could be found in the lower parts of the hills not too far away from the city of Florence. Although as with any indoor garden, the plants themselves are of  mostly of tropical origin to do well in the indoor climate. The overall picture is a soft, yet dense and fresh greenery, with some small-flowering plants like lanterns on top of the darker background. A picture that shall remind of the undergrowth in springtime, when it has had time to grow before the leaves of the canopy have fully developed and absorbed all incoming light.

这是为精品店做的一个项目，墙面高达7.5米。灵感来自热带雨林。因为要挂商品，因此墙面上的植物选择了小叶片的，形成了密集的，毛茸茸的热带绿毯感觉。依靠商店内的商品灯光照明对植物进行补光。

 

STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FAIRS – Stockholm

During the past years several walls have been done in and around Stockholm International Fairs. The latest addition are two small walls in the restroom of the new hall, characterized by colorful begonias, joined by several types of  peperomias and ferns. Inside the fairs, there are three 20m long walls in a corridor running between two of the halls, with a new metallic ceiling create some interesting reflections of the plants. Finally there are another two walls in the hotel lying next to the fairs, Rica Talk Hotel. These walls were built in 2006 and occupy the restaurant- and conference area.

几年前斯德哥尔摩国际博览会中的系列项目，出现在大厅金属天花板下，卫生间入口，以及城市中酒店的公共区域。

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