Living Walls & Vertical Gardens Course
This course equips architects with practical skills to create high-performance living walls that reduce building temperatures, improve air quality, and enhance urban streetscapes. Participants learn system selection, irrigation design, plant palettes, structural details, safety measures, and strategies for enduring vertical garden success in challenging environments.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course teaches how to design, specify, and maintain effective green facades for crowded cities. You will learn to define precise KPIs, evaluate microclimates and building codes, select hardy plants, engineer irrigation and support structures, and organise secure, economical upkeep to optimise cooling effects, biodiversity, air purity, and occupant wellbeing.
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Develop skills
- Design climate-resilient living walls: establish KPIs for cooling, air quality, and biodiversity.
- Evaluate urban sites: assess microclimate, structures, regulations, and drainage.
- Design irrigation systems: calculate sizes, automate, and optimise water efficiency for green walls.
- Choose and arrange plant selections: group species by climate, colour, and minimal maintenance.
- Specify robust systems: structures, waterproofing, maintenance planning, and team training.
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