“Sustainable” Living Wall - DIES
After a discussion with a colleague at UWA on sustainability in architecture and living walls/vertical gardens, I got on Google and found this and this. London’s first living wall at Paradise Park Children’s Centre in Islington has passed away.
‘A so-called living wall relies on an artificial supply of water and fertiliser to survive, and the design… is over-optimised and therefore very vulnerable. Unlike a natural eco-system it has no redundancy, so if one thing goes wrong, it all goes wrong.‘Just keeping [a wall] alive creates lorry-loads of embodied energy and pollution. The living wall cannot be sustainable because a basic principle of sustainability is that you do not live beyond your needs,’
The technology needs some refining really, but it’s not like the early rockets got into space…
