Living Walls & Vertical Gardens Course
This course equips architects with practical skills to create effective living walls that reduce building temperatures, improve air quality, and enhance urban landscapes. Participants learn to select systems, design irrigation, pick suitable plants, ensure structural safety, and achieve sustainable vertical garden outcomes in challenging city environments.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain expertise in designing, specifying, and maintaining high-performance green facades for crowded urban areas. Master setting performance indicators, evaluating microclimates and rules, selecting tough plants, engineering watering and support systems, and scheduling affordable upkeep to boost cooling effects, wildlife support, cleaner air, and occupant wellbeing.
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Develop skills
- Design climate-resilient living walls by defining KPIs for cooling, air quality, and biodiversity.
- Evaluate urban sites by studying microclimate, building structure, regulations, and drainage.
- Design efficient irrigation systems with proper sizing, automation, and water optimisation.
- Choose and arrange plant varieties suited to local climate, aesthetics, and minimal maintenance.
- Develop robust systems covering structure, waterproofing, safety, upkeep, and team training.
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