Barcelona, Spain
Vertical Garden Design
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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Replay’s store on
Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona now hosts a vertical garden of just above 100m2. In the storefront location, the two storey wall is set in a dramatic and playful environment with waterfalls, sculptures and contrasting materials.
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Photo © Courtesy of Vertical Garden Design |
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Photo © Courtesy of Vertical Garden Design |
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Photo © Courtesy of Vertical Garden Design |
As a great place to study nature’s own
vertical gardens, the waterfalls were a natural starting point for the
plant design. Looking closer to the environment around a waterfall, growing conditions change with linear patterns of fissures and cracks in the underlying exposed rock, or the rapidly decreasing moisture already small steps away from the immediate vicinity of the falling water. In such a manner, like the erratic and geometric cracking of an eroding rock, groups and strings of plants were laid out in an organic pattern.
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Photo © Courtesy of Vertical Garden Design |
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Photo © Courtesy of Vertical Garden Design |
The generous surface allow for many kinds of plants. Larger groups of begonias, different ferns, small (but long) aroids like the common
Philodendron scandens or Scindapsus pictus, sets the background for more dramatic effects of cascading fronds of
Nephrolepis exaltata andPolypodium subauriculatum or he larger aroids like Philodendron giganteum and P. erubescens.
Description from the Designer:
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Photo © Courtesy of Vertical Garden Design |
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Photo © Courtesy of Vertical Garden Design |
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Photo © Courtesy of Vertical Garden Design |
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Photo © Courtesy of Vertical Garden Design |
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Photo © Courtesy of Vertical Garden Design |
Project Data
Project name: Replay
Location: Passeig Gràcia, 60 08007 Barcelona, Spain
Program: Retail Interior
Year: 2011
The people
Client: Replay
Designer: Vertical Garden Design
Architect: studio10
Photographs: © Courtesy of Vertical Garden Design
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