Living Walls & Vertical Gardens Course
This course equips architects with practical skills to create high-performing living walls that reduce building temperatures, improve air quality, and enhance urban streetscapes. Participants learn essential techniques for selecting systems, designing irrigation, choosing plant palettes, ensuring structural integrity, prioritising safety, and achieving sustainable success with vertical gardens in dense city environments.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Discover how to design, select materials for, and maintain effective living walls and vertical gardens tailored for crowded urban settings in Latin America. Master setting performance KPIs, evaluating microclimates and local rules, picking tough plant types, engineering watering and support systems, and organising secure, budget-friendly upkeep to optimise cooling effects, wildlife support, cleaner air, and occupant wellbeing.
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Develop skills
- Design climate-resilient living walls by establishing KPIs for cooling, air quality, and biodiversity.
- Evaluate urban sites by assessing microclimate, building structure, regulations, and drainage.
- Design efficient irrigation systems, including sizing, automation, and water optimisation for vertical gardens.
- Choose and arrange plant varieties suited to local climate, aesthetics, and minimal maintenance.
- Develop robust systems covering structure, waterproofing, safety, maintenance, and staff training.
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