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A green wall is a “vertical garden” growing up a wall of a building or space. To obtain the desired result, a system consisting of one or more stainless steel meshes is anchored to the wall via special spacers, allowing a layer of plants to be attached together with a water supply layer and an automated irrigation system hidden from view.

In the early nineties of the last century, green walls were particularly fashionable in private homes, where walls and sometimes even whole houses were covered in ivy and other vine plants, according to a romantic idea taken from central and northern European castles.

Le Corbusier, one of the forefathers of contemporary urban planning and one of the most influential figures in the history of contemporary architecture, was a pioneer of this kind of garden when he planned the construction of flat-roof houses covered with plants that would restore vegetation to the city, providing an aesthetic and biological form of compensation as well as taking advantage of the insulating properties of the green layer and its substrate. Indeed, Le Corbusier argued that “A building should give back the space it takes up on the ground by replacing it with a garden in the sky”. A famous example of this is the decorative element on the front corner of Trump Tower on New York’s Fifth Avenue.

Spazio Verde can design, build and install both indoor and outdoor green walls using the most sophisticated technologies. Of fundamental importance for the creation of green walls are the use of low-maintenance plants, an automated fertigation system designed and built specially for each case, and a waste water recovery system.

A green wall is one of those creations that allows you to significantly reduce the environmental impact of an artificial construction struggling to integrate itself into the landscape that surrounds it. The main advantages of Spazio Verde’s green walls systems are minimized costs, reduced thicknesses, low maintenance requirements and maximum autonomous survival of plant species used.

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