Living Walls & Vertical Gardens Course
This course equips architects with practical skills to create high-performing living walls that reduce building heat, improve air quality, and enhance urban streetscapes. You will master system choices, irrigation design, plant selection, structural details, safety measures, and strategies for sustainable vertical garden maintenance in busy city settings.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
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 areas. Master setting performance targets, evaluating local weather and rules, picking tough plants, engineering watering and support systems, and organising affordable upkeep to boost cooling effects, wildlife support, cleaner air, and people’s comfort.
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Develop skills
- Design climate-resilient living walls: establish KPIs for cooling, air quality, biodiversity.
- Evaluate urban sites: review microclimate, building structure, regulations, drainage.
- Design efficient irrigation: calculate sizes, automate, optimise water for vertical gardens.
- Choose and arrange plants: select species by climate zones, colour, minimal care.
- Specify robust systems: structure, waterproofing, maintenance plans, worker training.
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