Vertical Garden
Vertical gardens and living walls that integrate vegetation into architectural surfaces and facades.
Vertical gardens represent an approach to landscape design that brings greenery into built environments by growing plants on walls, facades, and structural surfaces. This strategy addresses urban space constraints while creating visual and environmental benefits through integrated vegetation.
The community explores diverse applications of vertical greens, from conceptual landscape installations and residential garden designs to architectural interventions that replace or wrap building facades with living systems. Projects range from small-scale horticultural homes to full-building green shells and studio spaces transformed by tropical vegetation.
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View all 69 journalsREAL Architects and Challenge Design Plant a Timber Gridshell Seed at the Heart of Shanghai's West Bund
On Shanghai's Xuhui Waterfront, a 230 m² glazed timber lattice dome anchors a terraced garden and lets its structure do all the talking.
Studio KRAFT Stacks Timber Treehouses Along the Edges of a Crowded Budapest Schoolyard
In Budapest's Terézváros, a timber playgarden climbs the courtyard edges so 500 children keep their sports court and gain quiet places to retreat.
gaSSz arquitectos Builds a Demountable Circular-Economy Garden from Rubble and Tires in Madrid's Vicálvaro
In Vicálvaro, Madrid, a 2,400 m² garden of bolted yellow steel, rubble gabions and tire-rubber paving treats public space as a reversible material bank.
Pequeño Atelier de Arquitectura Contemporánea Stacks Boxes over a Garden Setback in Zapopan
On the slopes of the Primavera Forest near Guadalajara, a 2008 house of stacked volumes turns a mandatory side setback into the garden every room faces.