Living Walls & Vertical Gardens Course
This course equips architects with essential skills to create effective living walls and vertical gardens that reduce building temperatures, improve air quality, and enhance urban environments. Participants learn practical techniques for selecting systems, designing irrigation, choosing plants, ensuring structural integrity, prioritizing safety, and achieving sustainable long-term results in dense cities.

4 to 360h flexible workload
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What will I learn?
Discover how to design, select materials for, and maintain high-performing green walls in crowded urban settings. Master setting performance goals, evaluating site conditions and rules, picking tough plants, engineering watering and support systems, and scheduling secure, budget-friendly upkeep to boost 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 optimization for vertical gardens.
- Choose and arrange plant species suited to local climate, aesthetics, and minimal maintenance.
- Develop robust systems covering structure, waterproofing, safety, maintenance, and staff training.
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